The move to private cloud:
6 critical questions
Why private cloud?
Why make the move to private cloud?
For leading IT innovators, the private cloud revolution
is a key pillar of their ongoing business transformation
initiatives. From improving service to moving faster,
to becoming more secure, private cloud offers the
agility required in today’s fast moving, mobile,
always on world.
Top 3 drivers for private cloud adoption
36%
32%
35%
Improve IT
service levels
Improve
infrastructure
security
Improve
infrastructure
agility
Saugatuck Technology - Research Report. Rapid Infrastructure Improvement and the need for Managed Services
Who’s making the move to private cloud?
control are leveraging new private cloud models that enable the
best of both worlds. Unprecedented flexibility, security, and costs
benefits are all now available in private cloud environments and the
benefits companies are realising are real.
Firms are expecting to have
more than 50 percent of
their infrastructure and apps
in the cloud by 2018.
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Companies looking for the elasticity and cost benefits
of public cloud, while also seeking maximum security and
Saugatuck, 2014 Global Survey: Cloud and Digital
Business Strategy Adoption and Success, August
28, 2014.
The rapid increase in private cloud adoption is being driven by
companies looking to accelerate their technology strategy and make an
impact in their business’s performance beyond IT. They’re looking for
private cloud and related managed services to help them improve nearly
every aspect of their IT strategy.
Top managed services offerings seen as important in IT leader’s cloud strategy:
(prioritized list)
74%
68%
62%
Security
services
Business
continuity
59%
59%
Storage
services
Networking
services
55%
Applications
Cloud
operations implementation
services
53%
51%
Technical
operations
Application
workload
migration
Saugatuck Technology - Research Report. Rapid Infrastructure Improvement and the need for Managed Services
Why Dimension Data Private Cloud?
Dimension Data Private Cloud removes the barriers to private cloud adoption,
offering a new paradigm for the migration of critical workloads and applications that have
sensitive data, to the cloud. Our production-grade cloud offers unmatched flexibility and
security in our environment or yours, all in an innovative consumption-based commercial
model that’s focused on improving time to value for today’s IT leader.
Dimension Data Private Cloud offers:
99.999%
network uptime
Up to 100%
service credit cap
99.999%
server uptime
Latency target
<1ms
30 minute
response time
Dimension Data Private Cloud
no capital expense
(consumption based)
less capital expense
right-sized to fit your
deploy in our data ease of management
organisation and
centers located across
through the use
your applications
six continents,
of Dimension Data
CloudControl
enables hybrid IT
Why not build your own private cloud?
Organisations considering building their own private cloud
environment should consider the time, cost, and skillset requirements
needed to successfully leverage private cloud. To maximize value you need to buy or build
a cloud control system with self-service provisioning and the capability to build, deploy
and manage complex multi-tier applications. Dimension Data’s private cloud includes our
CloudControl system along with embedded security and networking options required for
enterprise applications. We help our clients manage a private cloud with confidence.
Our cloud is consumption-based and provides capacity sized to suit companies of all sizes.
Bridging the IT skills gap
Nearly 90% of customers have a “strong desire” for building a hybrid cloud organization in the next two years, but
there exits a 50% skills gap for most organizations to achieve their goals.
38%
35%
34%
32%
18%
Have adequate
knowledge of cloud best
practices
Have IT staff skills to
use cloud automation
Have implemented
a unified service
catalog
Have user selfservice provisioning
Cannot forsee when
they wil have consistent
service-level monitoring
across hybrid clouds
Percentage of companies that have adequate skills to manage a private cloud transition.
— IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by SAP, The Cloud-Centric Organization, June 2015
What’s life like with
private cloud?
The private cloud is a game changer. IT innovators
making the private cloud switch are routinely reporting
improved IT speed, agility, insight, and better management
of opex expenses. But that’s not all. Companies moving to
private cloud are also outperforming those that have yet to
make the transition. Is now the time for you to move to a
Dimension Data Private Cloud solution?
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Organizations that use the
cloud reported 2.5X higher
profits than their peers and
are 81% more likely to drive
increased collaboration across
their organization.
IDC InfoDoc, Innovation in the Cloud, IT’s
Next Big Success Story, April 2014
What else can Dimension Data
do for you?
Dimension Data offers a complete portfolio of service delivery platforms
and managed services through Cloud Surround, our innovative service that leverages
our deep heritage in networking, storage, security, advanced automation, end-user
computing, and mobility for your enterprise applications and workloads.
Other service delivery
platforms
Workload driven
Managed Services
Fit for purpose clouds
applications deliveredas-a-service
Professional
services
Managed
services
Outsourcing
Hosting
Application
Centric Cloud
Application
services
Networking
Security
Infrastructure
extensions
Dimension Data is global ICT solutions provider with over 28,000 employees and offices in
58 countries. We provide integrated enterprise cloud solutions that combine our heritage
in systems integration with our enterprise-class cloud services to help our clients realise the
benefits of cloud computing while managing the risk of integration and migration.
Find out more at cloudwhenitcounts.com