CloudExpo West 2012 presentation from GreenButton CEO and Founder Scott Houston and Dell Cloud Evangelist Stephen Spector.

1. Unifying Business and IT –
Bursting to the Cloud
Scott Houston CEO & Founder, GreenButton
Stephen Spector Cloud Evangelist, Dell
CloudExpo West 2012

2. Agenda
• Executive Suite
• Here Comes the Cloud
• CIO becomes the CEO
• The 3 biggest issues for the new “CIO”

3. Executive Suite

4. CEO

5. CFO

6. CIO

7. Here Comes the Cloud

8. A CIO story
Just when you thought everything was under control
2003 – 10 weeks to go before Launch
50 IT staff
500 Graphic Artists
1000+ Workstations
2000+ Processors
10,000 Render Jobs per day
50,000 Cinemas booked for Dec 18th launch
and……..

9. Battle of Pelennor Fields

10. Evolution to CEO
• The future was on-demand
computing
• 2007 founded GreenButton
• 2011 Microsoft Azure
partner of the year
• 2012 partnered with Dell to
port GreenButton to vCloud
• Launch GreenButton Cloud
Fabric TODAY !!!

11. 3 Big Issues for new CIOs
Instant IT
• No is not an option - how much
(resources) and when
• Massive Capex projects are
disappearing (and so are the CIOs
that endorse them)
• IT is strategic and not tactical
• The rise of the Enterprise Architect
and “devops”

12. 3 Big Issues for new CIOs
Business Transformation
in Global Age
• IT is no longer an expense, it is an investment
• Cloud will drive new business decisions rather
than just enable them.
• Fail fast business models, new innovations can
be deployed instantly

13. 3 Big Issues for new CIOs
Consumerization of IT
• Consolidate rogue agents
• Bring your own device
• Multi Cloud
- avoid lock in

14. Come see us tomorrow
Game Changer – HPC
in the Cloud for
Everyone
Track 4 8:15 am
Thank You