Here is the deck from All Covered's "Joining The Cloud Revolution" webinar in case you missed it. It discusses what the cloud is, how it works, the benefits of it, how the industry has evolved, success stories, and much much more! The webinar recording is included at the end of the deck!

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JOINING THE CLOUD REVOLUTION
Presented by: Bill Lowrey

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Today’s Presenter:
ABOUT ALL COVERED
Bill Lowrey
Services Marketing Manager
25 years experience in IT services for enterprise
and small- and medium-sized businesses
• All Covered – IT services from Konica Minolta
• Established in 1997
• Headquartered in Foster City, California
• Offices in over 25 cities in the United States
• Over 800 employees with approximately 600 engineers with industry certifications
Bill Lowrey

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WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?

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WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?
Cloud computing is a revolution in the way that computing
power is delivered to businesses.

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24/7 ANYWHERE CONNECTIVITIY
Today’s users need 24/7 access to their data from a multitude
of devices from wherever they are.

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MANAGING YOUR OWN IT RESOURCES

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BUSINESS DRIVERS
Costs – Do you want to move away from having to buy, maintain and
eventually upgrade your own computer systems to run your business?

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BUSINESS DRIVERS
Access and availability –
Do you need access to
your data from any location
and from any type of device?

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BUSINESS DRIVERS
Security – Do you want the
peace of mind of knowing that
your business data is stored in
a secure data center and
accessible from the cloud?

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INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATIONS
Businesses used to make
their own electricity with their
own generator in-house…

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INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATIONS
Then: Edison revolutionized
power delivery. It became
cleaner, cheaper and most
importantly on-demand.

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CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud computing today allows
you to access unlimited computing
without the investment,
maintenance and hassle.

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WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE CLOUD?

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CLOUD BENEFITS

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SUCCESS STORIES – CLOUD
Risk Mitigation & Regulatory Compliance
Clarkston State Bank
PROBLEM:
Locations with aging infrastructure, intermittent
internet and unreliable power caused major outage.
All 6 branches lost access to the network and
internet for several days.
SOLUTION:
All Covered cloud servers and co-location
BENEFITS:
• Eliminated need to purchase new servers
for secondary locations
• Reliable power to all centrally located servers
while removing the need to purchase backup power
• Achieved compliance conditions
Location: Clarkston, Michigan
Established: 1911
Description: Community bank
with 6 branches in Oakland
County, Michigan. Dedicated to
meeting the financial needs of
local residents and businesses.

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MIGRATED TO CLOUD
On-Premise Solution Cloud Solution

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SUCCESS STORIES
Regulatory Requirement
Bank of Ocean City
PROBLEM:
• Auditor concerns about proximity to water
• Needed flexibility for future growth
SOLUTION:
• Work with line of business vendors to host
applications in All Covered cloud
• Deployed virtual desktop infrastructure to
enable remote access
BENEFITS:
• Ability to meet audit and compliance requirements
with cloud server replicated to two datacenters
• Simplified remote access to all employees
through standardize virtual desktop
Location: Ocean City, Maryland
Established: 1916
Description: Community bank
with 6 branches in Ocean City,
Maryland. Dedicated to providing
superior customer service with
cutting edge technology.

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SUCCESS STORIES
Workflow and Collaboration
Avison Young
PROBLEM:
Need to collaborate amongst employees while defining
and improving internal business processes
SOLUTION:
All Covered application development with SharePoint
BENEFITS:
• Intranet tools to share data between all offices and
employees
• Modernized manual processes by bringing them online
• Allowed for much greater accessibility to company
tools and resources, even on mobile devices
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Established: 1978
Description: Commercial real
estate services firm with 1,500
real estate professionals in 58
offices in 47 cities. Approximately
70 million square feet under
management.

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CUSTOM COLLABORATION PLATFORM
All housed in a Tier 3 data center with integrated backup
and replication to a secondary location.

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CUSTOM COLLABORATION PLATFORM
Cross platform access to common tools, reports,
departmental applications and latest company bulletins.

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SUCCESS STORIES
Disaster Recovery
Greater Des Moines Partnership
PROBLEM:
Fire in an adjacent building
SOLUTION:
All Covered backup for servers
• Business continuity in the cloud
BENEFITS:
• Servers damaged by water and smoke replaced
by virtual cloud servers in under 2 hours
• Access to building was lost, but full access to
systems and data in the cloud was uncompromised
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Established: 1888
Description: Community
development organization
service central Iowa.
**21 affiliate chambers of
commerce
**5,000 business members

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DISASTER EVENT
Greater Des Moines Partnership
• Months after the Younkers Building fire,
nearby businesses finally reopen.
• Younkers Demolition: Neighboring
organization affected.
channel 13, whotv.com, May 19, 2014
kcci.com, June 12, 2014

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RECOVERY PROCESS
a. Spin-up data in the cloud
b. Acquire new physical facilities
c. Look for long-term location
d. Move any existing on-premise servers to the cloud

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ALL COVERED CLOUD BENEFITS
• Cloud team with over 40 years of multi-tenant data center experience
• Over 200 companies run their businesses in the All Covered cloud
• 250 additional businesses use All Covered for the cloud
backup and business continuity
• Redundant data centers in two geographic locations
• 99.995% uptime guaranteed
• 24 x 7 support by live team
• Over 3PB of production storage –
SSD, SAS and SATA
• Hybrid or private IaaS cloud services available
• ‘Reserved Compute’ option available

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ALL COVERED CLOUD SERVICES
• All Covered can help with your IT needs
so you can focus on your business
• All Covered is a proven provider of cloud
platforms and services
• Ready to get started? Let’s get the
discussion underway!
Similar to how Edison revolutionized power…

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CLOUD SERVERS OFFER
Certain conditions apply.

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HOW TO GET STARTED…
• Talk with an All Covered expert
• Map out business benefits you’d like to achieve
• Build a custom solution that’s right for your business
• Phased approach
• Combined cloud and on-premise
• Call 866-446-1133

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QUESTIONS?
To speak with an All Covered
Services Consultant, call:
866-446-1133
www.allcovered.com

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THANK YOU.