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Spiceworks Private Beta. November 29, 2012. Agenda. Introductions You Spiceworks Pertino What is Pertino? How It Works Panel Timeline Next Steps. SpiceHeads. Provide Expertise, Experience, and lots of Opinions Thank You for Participating The coolest t-shirt you ever saw - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Spiceworks Private BetaNovember 29, 2012
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Agenda
Introductions• You• Spiceworks• Pertino
What is Pertino? How It Works Panel Timeline Next Steps
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SpiceHeads
Provide Expertise, Experience, and lots of Opinions
Thank You for Participating• The coolest t-shirt you ever saw• $50 Amazon gift card• Free personal Pertino account for life!
• Up to 25 attached devices
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Introductions
Spiceworks• Ivy Dorf• Clayton Malcom
Pertino• Engineers
• Scott Hankins• Andrew Mastracci
• Support• Florence Louie
• Useless Overhead• Cameron Smith• Michael Cartsonis• Todd Krautkremer
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Networking reinvented
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Simple, secure cloud-based networkthat connects people everywhere
with IT resources anywhere.
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Business Network Challenge
Head Office
Remote and Mobile Users
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On premise Business Applications
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What businesses need
Head Office
Remote and Mobile Users
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On premise Business Applications
… Regardless of size
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Unboxing a New Way to Network
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Today’s WANs are complexPertino is as simple as 1-2-3
Do-it-yourself WAN Network-as-a-Service
Install
Invite
Manage
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Pertino’s Big Vision
Cloud networking delivered as a service Resilient, elastic and on-demand No hardware, no configuration Social-inspired management interface PCs, Macs, and mobile devices on a unified network Connect servers and applications on-premise and in
the cloud Network services as apps (e.g. access control,
directory, security)
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Where We Are Today
Still building, but ready to take feedback and direction
Secure connectivity for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
Integration with existing cloud services (e.g. Amazon, Rackspace)
User centric management interface
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Pertino’s Private Beta Program Two main phases over about two weeks Private Group open for questions/conversations
throughout Pertino will post instructions at the beginning of
each phase SpiceHeads complete activities and journal about
their experiences Conclude each stage with questionnaire
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Timeline Over the weekend: Onboarding
• Create an account, get the product installed December 3 – 7: Usage Phase 1
• Feedback on initial installation and getting started• Unstructured Usage
December 8 – 14: Usage Phase 2• Directed Usage
December 17: Wrap Up Survey• Both Usage and Marketing feedback• Best use case wins an iPad!
December 18: Final Call Ongoing
• The group will remain live. Feel free to continue to provide feedback and connect with other beta users as we add them.
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Let’s Get Started
Today after the call – Pertino will send PM through Spiceworks to get the address you would like to use for your account
Tonight – You’ll receive an auto-generated welcome email with links to beta account creation
Web UI will guide you through installation and setup• Please install on at least 2 machines by Monday
Pertino Beta Test Community is up and running now• http://community.spiceworks.com/group/show/540-pertino-beta-test• Check in Monday to answer initial “onboarding” questions and
receive instructions for the rest of Phase 1• Come back to the community any time if you get stuck or have
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