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Can you substitute the Desktop with a Browser.5 Lessons learned and advice from Global Micro - Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year 2010 and 2011. Presentation by JJ Milner. www.globalmicro.co.za. Follow me on twitter @jjrmilner

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JJ Milner Global Micro

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Global Micro Solutions

• Established by JJ Milner in 1995

• Longest standing Cloud Provider in South Africa

• Deployed 1st Hosted Thin Client Desktop as early as 1999

• Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year 2010

• Provides White Label platforms for Telkom,

Vox Telecom and Mustek

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The promise of software as a service from the cloud is to

provide you everything you get from a traditional network…

but can it do this from a browser ?

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Cloud City

• Rich Applications

• Automatic Backups

• Seamless Software Upgrades

• Mobile File Access

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Web Apps

• Almost Zero Installation Advantage

• Online collaborative applications while

more limited do provide great value

• Pay-as-you-go - Pay-as-you-grow

• Platform Independent

• Completely Mobile

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Local Apps

• Extended User Sessions

• Use of Local / LAN Databases

• Heavy Computational Tasks

• Graphics / Physics Animation

• Low Latency

• Specialised Interfaces (Cameras, POS, barcodes)

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Is The Web Secure ?

•Dropbox confirms security glitch – no password required

•(Privacy Inc. June 20, 2011 4:37 PM PDT)

Is Local Storage The Answer ?

•More than 1 in 10 laptops will be stolen within their lifetime

•(Wikipedia)

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LOCAL & THE WEB

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5 Strategies born from lessons learned in the last 10 years as a cloud provider • Harness the best of the client & the cloud.

• Feel the power of the local PC

• Harmonise this with the mobility and redundancy of the cloud.

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SA Bandwidth availability and performance

cannot be guaranteed

• Don’t deploy terminal services, VDI or web applications

• for latency sensitive workloads

• Always have a local cache

• Only replicate changed data

• Assume you may need to work disconnected

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ThinApps

• ThinApps are the same functional versions of traditional

applications like Microsoft Office

• Instead of a traditional installation, they are streamed from

the web or local cache server

• Pay per use (monthly) with Office on demand

• You only need to be connected to the internet once every 30

days to validate the license

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AllenPortTM Virtual Filing Cabinet

•Store your data in a 256 Bit Encrypted filing cabinet

•Make sure only you have the Keys

•Your ISP can’t protect you

•Beware of the “Monitoring & Interception of Telecommunications

Act”

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AllenPortTM Virtual Filing Cabinet

• Mirror all your data from your local machine

to a secure data centre

• Replicate your private data to all your devices

• Replicate your public data to all your co-workers

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Choose A Unified Platform

• Manage, Patch & Deploy your ThinApps from a secure App Store

• One identity to manage your Apps and your Virtual Filing Cabinets

• You must be able to reconstruct your files, folders and applications if your Death Star

is damaged, stolen or destroyed.

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Unify your approach

•Encrypt your data locally and replicate to the Cloud,

your co-workers and your other devices

•Use “pay-as-you-go” ThinApps so that

you can run disconnected

•Manage and secure both with

a unified App store from a vendor

with a proven reputation

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