ICT Megatrends and Opportunities for Canadian

SMEs

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Global ICT Trends

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A Shift in Canada’s Economy

Mill it. Drill it. Kill it.

From:

To:

Internet Economy & Data-driven Innovation

“Data is Canada’s new natural resource.”

-- Hon. Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board

The impact of the internet economy

> 3 billion internet users

> 3-4% of Canada’s GDP

> 2.6 new jobs attributable to the internet for every 1 lost

> SMEs who rely heavily on Internet tech grow 2x rate of low adopters

> Global mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013

> 500 million devices added in 2014 alone

> 2014 global mobile data traffic was 18x the entire Internet in 2000

+11,500 Tinder swipes every second

100 hours of video added to YouTube every minute

Instagram has more users than Twitter

Snapchat is fastest-growing messaging app

2 new users join Facebook every second

2.5 Exabytes: Volume of data created every day (doubling every month)

Global volume of data will increase 44x from 2009-2020

Where does Cloud fit in?

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DAIR:A government-funded

initiative

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The DAIR cloud for Canada’s ICT startups

> SMEs leverage the power of the CANARIE network…for free> Develop, test & prototype products with cloud-based network, compute & storage > Get to market faster

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Social Media

Health information

Intrusion detection

ERP

Spam filtering

Physical infrastructure

monitoring

Gaming

Legal search

Media monitoring

Content management

Web server anomaly detection

Mobile applications

hub

Call centre SaaS

Text mining system

Online scholarship applications

Cancer detection

Investment & income analysisTrusted access

to digital systems

Automated cloud compute

activities

What kind of applications are using DAIR?

DAIR user example:

DAIR user example:

1 core

1 core

1 core

1 core

or

4 core

DAIR resources available:

Cost Per Year

$0

$400

$2,000

$1,400

$1,500

$5,900

$13,400

$13,500

$17,900

4 Cores

8 Cores

24 Cores

Cost Per Year

$0

$400

$2,000

$1,750

$3,292

$9,473

$1,839

$3,410

$9,695

$2,332

$3,879

$19,705

4 Cores

8 Cores

24 Cores

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The DAIR advantage:

Early stage companies

350+ DAIR users so far

$

$

$7,047

Savings!

Get On the DAIR cloud in 5 simple steps

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

2. Sign CANARIE’s Acceptable Use Policy

3. Receive e-mail confirmation with a username/password

4. Access the DAIR portal

5. Begin using your development environment

Thank you.

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