Are you a software provider selling packaged software? Have you considered offering a cloud based version of your software offering, but do not have a deeper understanding of how to do it, and what business benefits you might get by doing so? The transition of software workloads to the Cloud is gaining momentum. Software product/service providers who do not have a strategy for offering cloud based services will loose out. This session will talk about the business drivers for offering your product/service on the cloud, and how to go about cloud enabling your products.

1. Cloud Services
Roshan Agrawal

2. Cloud: benefits…
 Pay as you go
 Lower costs => competitive pricing
 Ready to use
 Wider geographic reach
 Frequent updates: incremental software delivery

4. Transitioning to Cloud
 Operate the service vs just shipping bits
- monitoring
- logging
- infra ownership
- ops people
- capacity management
- security
 24/7
 Organizational/cultural transformation

5. Transitioning to cloud
 Implement “pay per use” usage and billing
 Multi tenancy
 Access control
 Security Isolation
 Performance Isolation

6. Discussion