| Infrastructure reinvigoration | |
| “Many of our clients are coming to us looking to leverage cloud services to reinvigorate Intranets and Extranets” | 
Ergo Peter McCullagh, senior solutions consultant |
| Some common trends which Ergo is seeing in the market in relation to Cloud adoption are as follows.Cloud Services are being used as a direct replacement for something which is currently on-premises. For example, companies are adopting Microsoft Office 365 as a consolidated mechanism for eliminating the need for on-premises email servers and associated overheads such as protecting against viruses, spam and denial of service attacks. Exchange online also offers a solution for companies struggling with email storage problems.
Cloud services allows companies to experiment with something new or to revamp an existing service. Companies that adopt Office 365 see the potential of other parts of the offering (such as Skype, Yammer, SharePoint, Sway) to help employees to communicate and cooperate both internally and externally more effectively. Many of our clients are coming to us looking to leverage cloud services to reinvigorate Intranets and Extranets. Cloud Services can also make a big difference in relation to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Services can range from backup in the Cloud (using Azure Backup for example) to full Disaster Recovery as a service solutions such as Azure Site Recovery. For Cloud data storage, Microsoft has added a new “cool” cloud storage option which is less expensive and ideally suited for data back-up and archiving. Cloud services are here to stay. Just look at recent Irish data centre announcements by Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. Cloud services are booming, and companies need to devise a strategy for how they can take advantage of them.
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| Resilience requirement | |
| “As external demands, driven by security and compliance needs, grow dramatically, many are finding flaws in their existing data back-up and recovery systems the hard way” | 
Trilogy Technologies John Casey, group sales director |
| As cloud computing becomes a game changer for SMEs by offering flexible, cost-effective access to IT infrastructure, the cloud services we see being of most immediate value to Irish organisations, are those of Back-up as a Service (BaaS) and DR as a Service (DRaaS). Traditionally, SMEs have found it too costly to resource traditional DR solutions and have had to make do with back-up solutions designed with poor Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).Organisations today are now more than ever dependent on their IT to run their business. As external demands driven by security and compliance needs grow dramatically, many are finding flaws in their existing data back-up and recovery systems the hard way. Security and availability of IT systems are not just about having a carbon copy somewhere, but about being resilient.
We see organisations now looking for a single partner to manage and advise on all cloud services being delivered with back-up and DR being central to that. A typical Trilogy Managed IT as a Service solution today embraces the management and support of private, hybrid or managed cloud environments. By incorporating BaaS and DRaaS, the added value that one company brings as a single managed service provider ensures a swift response to any security or technology emergency. This will minimise downtime and ensure the integrity and resilience of all systems. Trilogy designs, implements and manages agile infrastructure across virtual and cloud platforms, helping clients to enhance their operations, mitigate risk and enable business strategy. The company incorporates expertise in both infrastructure transformation and Managed IT as a Service to deliver business-wide IT services.
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| Hybrid cloud adoption | |
| “Even if industry unique solutions that are not available as SaaS are required, the start-ups can still derive similar benefits by adopting cloud IaaS for their industry unique requirements” | 
Triangle Colm Humphreys, IBM software business leader |
| While different cloud services have some common attributes and offer some common benefits, no single cloud service will deliver the same value for all organisations. The stage of development, industry and size of an organisation will determine which cloud service will deliver the greatest value.Start-up organisations will welcome the value of Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS), offerings. They can access the required business applications such as accounting and CRM applications as SaaS and benefit from speed and ease of deployment, scalability as required and an OpEx type pay per use payment plan. Even if industry unique solutions that are not available as SaaS are required, the start-ups can still derive similar benefits by adopting Cloud Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS) for their industry unique requirements.
Technology oriented organisations will derive benefit from the above and they will also derive value by embracing Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) capability. The speed and agility enabled by PaaS facilitates innovation and allows these organisations to run more programmes simultaneously than with conventional computing capability. This is of great benefit to research and development focused technology organisations. At Triangle, we are finding that larger established organisations are deriving value by adopting Hybrid Cloud models integrating and enhancing their existing capability with all variations of Cloud Services. Large organisations typically adopt multiple cloud service models. All Cloud services referenced above can be deployed rapidly. They are all scalable, flexible, secure and reliable. These attributes underpin agility and flexibility which enable organisations to derive business benefits by reducing the Time to Value of new products, services and processes. Additionally, these Cloud models normally have periodic charging plans which are directly related to use and do not require an initial capital investment. This type of charging model is of great value to most organisations.
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