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Building Your Business In The Cloud

Randy Jones| Fundica Roadshow 2016

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A Shift in Canada’s Economy

Mill it. Drill it. Kill it.

From:

To:

Internet Economy & Data-driven

Innovation

“Information is the oil of the 21st

century and analytics is

the combustion engine.”

- Peter Sondergaard | the Gartner Group

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A new era of data-driven innovation…

> Improved or automated decision making

> Better customer insights

> Product and service innovation

> Process innovation

> Organizational innovation

“A city of 1 million will generate

180 million gigabytes of data/day by 2019”

Cisco Global Cloud Index, 2014-2019

Internet of Everything


…is creating new, global powerhouses

Shift in value creation: From data processing, storage and transport

to software, analytics and data-centric services

~4x Revenue per employee

Internet Firms…

Traditional

ICT Firms


Digital technology megatrends

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What can the cloud do for your business?

Business, rather than infrastructure.

> Improve time to market

> Access from any device, anywhere

> Provide scale


What is Cloud?

> “On demand” compute, network, and storage resources

> Rapid addition and removal of capacity

> Pay for what you use

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Why does service type matter for software development?

Time to Market

Paa

S

IaaS

Shortest Longest

Vendor Lock-in Least Most

Paa

S

IaaS

IaaS

Service Costs

Paa

S

Lowest Highest


Avoiding the “Cloud Trap”

• Many different Fees

• Consumption is poorly understood

• Automation Investment dependent on cloud specific APIs

• Application dependency upon cloud specific PaaS features

Pay for Use

Services

Provider Dependencies

Lock-in and/or Bill

Shock

http://www.canarie.ca/the-cloud-trap/


Avoiding Vendor Lock-in

> Minimize dependency upon proprietary PaaS features,

> Design for code portability,

> Automate image synchronization between clouds,

> Automate data migration procedures between clouds,

> Profile resource consumption relative to offered load,

> Track market conditions


Cloud Providers in Canada


Understanding and controlling cloud costs can make or break a startup.

The Canadian cloud market

> Entering a hyper competitive phase

> Average price for an instance*: ~$57

> Expect prices <$10/month within 2 years• Precedent set in web hosting market

*Continuous operation of a VM using 1vCPU, 2GB RAM, >40GB Storage, >5TB BW transfer for a monthInformal price survey of 5 Canadian providers from July 2015.

The DAIR cloud for Canada’s ICT Startups

> A kick-start to new cloud service offerings> Mobilizes new cloud ICT businesses in Canada

Get to market faster on the CANARIE network… for free.

Eligibility

> Offices in Canada with < 500 employees> Agreement to acceptable use policy


Why DAIR?

Why are startups using DAIR?

> Accelerate time to market

> Avoid costs

> Gain experience with cloud technology

> Validate customer feature sets

> Refine business models

Why DAIR vs other free cloud services?

> Cost certainty: no hidden costs

> Time: one year access, renewable

> Canadian cloud: data resides in Canada

> High performance network: 100 Gbpsnational network


600 startups have lifted their business to the DAIR cloud

canarie.ca/cloud/case-studies

“Using DAIR, we gained enormous benefits by collaborating with customers on product

development and evolution in real time.”

Mike Cook, President and Operating Officer, Identos

“DAIR was the right solution for us. DAIR’s high-performance servers supported our

sophisticated software tools and multiple data feeds. We were able to develop and test our

product thoroughly on DAIR.”

Grant Sutherland, President, BOS Forestry


1. 4 virtual cores (vCPUs)2. 4 virtual machines3. 8 GB RAM4. 80 GB storage across 4 file systems5. 200 GB of object storage 6. Native OS: Windows Server 2008,

R2 Server 2012, Windows 7, Centos 6.0/7.0, Ubuntu 10.04/12.04/14.04

7. “Unlimited” data transfer in, within, and out of DAIR8. Support9. Additional resources for nominal fees

Free year* of use for Development, Test, and Trials

What’s offered?

*Renewable subject to capacity


How to Sign Up:

> Apply at: http://canarie.ca/cloud

> Accept CANARIE’s Acceptable Use Policy

> Receive e-mail confirmation with a username/password

> Access the DAIR portal

> Begin using your development environment

http://canarie.ca/cloud


Most Frequent Questions

> What happens after year of free use?

> What’s involved in migration to/from DAIR?

> How does CANARIE define “production use”?

> What level of support is provided?

> What if I need more resources than is provided?

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