1. How Mid-Sized Businesses Can Mitigate
Cloud Risks & Reduce Time Spent
Managing Providers by 80%
Cisco Cloud Consumption as a Service
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Cloud Consumption
2. Cloud: Great Equalizer for Mid-Sized Businesses
Believe cloud brings enterprise technology
capabilities within their reach
Rapidly moving to consumption pricing
Pursuing the agility and promise of public
and hybrid cloud
Mid-Sized Customers48% using approved public cloud
36% have pilot projects underway,
investigating cloud
10-15X more cloud services purchased
without IT involvement
Deloitte, Cisco
3. Significant Challenges Managing Cloud
Mid-Sized Businesses
Cloud Visibility
Cloud spending shifting from IT to LOB
Limited resources to discover, monitor
cloud services
Partial understanding of rising cloud costs
Finding & Managing Providers
IT need to rapidly introduce services to
meet the needs of business
Limited resources to find, assess,
manage the right service providers
Risk & Compliance
Data security, privacy, compliance risks
Potential risks, financial stability of cloud
providers often unknown
4. Visibility
Monitor Use & Predict
Cloud Needs
Risk
Reduce Cloud Risk &
Protect Your Business
Benchmarking
Discover & Evaluate
Providers
Introducing…Cloud Consumption as a Service
Strategically Manage Cloud Use from One Portal
Discover all cloud services
(SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
User identification
Cloud usage trending,
reports
Monitor website usage
Advanced categorization,
filtering
Data security notifications
Cloud provider risk profiles
based on 150+ industry risk
controls
Cloud provider certification
records
Trigger-based usage
anomaly alerts
Compare providers and
find the right cloud service
to meet your requirements
Benchmark usage against
peers
Cloud Consumption
5. Identify Usage Trends &
Predict Future Needs
Features: Monitor Cloud Usage & Predict Needs
of Internal Groups
Discover & Monitor
Cloud Service Provider Use
Top CSPs by Traffic/Users
Identify all known and unknown CSPs
CSP usage
Individual CSPs by traffic
CSP categories by traffic
CSP traffic volume, trending
CSP distribution: authorized, unauthorized
Identify cloud use by individual users
Understand under/over-utilized CSPs
Identify potential consolidation
opportunities
Monitor accessed websites
CSP Traffic
Consolidation Opportunity
6. Features: Identify Cloud Risks & Protect Your
Organization
Data Security Tools & Alerts CSP Risk Profiles & Certifications
Explore CSPs by high-risk categories.
View CSP risk distribution and prioritize
mitigation actions
Cloud service anomaly alerts and trigger-
based alerts to monitor spikes in usage or
discover usage anomalies
Risk profiles derived by comparing the
vendor against nearly 150 industry-
defined cloud risk controls
View lists of CSP certifications
Data Security Snapshot
7. Features: Evaluate Providers In Less Time with
Benchmarking & Analytics
Provider Comparisons & Benchmarking
Find the right provider
for your business and
security requirements
Compare costs, risk
profiles, anomalies and
certifications
Benchmark cloud
provider service use
against peers
Benchmarking
8. Save Time For Your IT Team
Mid-Sized Businesses
Visibility
Cloud Service Provider
Discovery
Risk
Respond to Data
Security Anomalies
Find & Manage Providers
Research & Compare
New Cloud Providers
Assess Cloud Provider
Risks
Average Days Spent
Per Year
Average Days Per Year
Using Cloud Consumption
as a Service
Findings based on time savings estimates for mid-market customers and derived from customer interviews. Time savings will differ based on customer complexity. Cost savings based upon $55/hour IT employee.
Activities
9. Tangible Business Benefits
Reduce Cloud Risks/Costs and Strategically Manage Cloud
Challenge
Risks,
Compliance
Benefits
Reduce security and financial exposure by
identifying cloud risks and compliance issues
Mitigate
Business Risk
Outcomes
Visibility
Know what cloud services are being used
Predict future cloud needs
Benchmark cloud use against peers
Costs Reduce cloud costs by consolidating cloud
services
Optimize
Costs
Finding/
Managing
Providers
Meet the Needs
of Business
Faster
Find the right cloud services to meet business,
risk, and compliance requirements
Rapidly meet the needs of internal groups
Monitor Cloud
Usage
Hinweis der Redaktion
Advances in cloud computing are lowering the barriers to IT entry for mid-market businesses and promising new insights and capabilities at a fraction of the cost of the more traditional systems that were predominant in the past.
For this reason, Cloud use is significantly on the rise with 48% already using cloud and 36% investigating cloud options or conducting pilot projects. Additionally cloud technologies is the most popular technology investments in 2015. (2014 Mid-Market Perspectives, Deloitte)
90% of mid-market executives, especially those in smaller firms, believe cloud can accelerate sales and enrich customer service. While 1/3 view possibilities to support marketing campaigns. (2014 Mid-Market Perspectives, Deloitte)
Because of this, mid-market businesses are rapidly moving to consumption pricing, and pursuing the agility and promise of public, private, and hybrid cloud
Managing a new hybrid IT environments presents additional challenges for mid-sized IT groups, including:
Cloud Visibility
50% tech spending lies with line-of-business execs in mid-market companies (IDC)
IT has limited resources to discover, monitor cloud services, and only a partial understanding of cloud costs
Risk/Compliance
There is increased business risk associated with cloud services as more data is stored and shared in the public cloud.
4 in 10 mid-market execs say privacy, security risks are the main challenge in using cloud-based services (Deloitte)
IT needs to mitigate risks to the organization by ensuring that new services meet policies for security, performance, and compliance standards.
Additionally, the cloud marketplace is quickly evolving and consolidating. Businesses need to ensure that the vendors they are using are financially stable or risk loosing valuable corporate data and information if the vendor goes out of business.
Finding & Managing Providers:
IT need to rapidly introduce services to meet the needs of business
However, IT is faced with limited resources to assess, manage, and optimize the right service providers
Additionally, there is a need to establish lifecycle management to oversee cloud service providers from onboarding to termination.
For IT teams to become strategic in how they manage cloud services to support the business, they need ways in which to address these challenges.
Cloud Consumption as a Service directly addresses mid-market customer’s challenges in managing cloud use and helps customers manage cloud use from one screen
It helps customers discover which cloud services are being used in their organization, identify potential risks, and predict future cloud needs. It can also help your customers discover the right cloud services to meet their needs, benchmark usage against peers, and be a more strategic resource for their business.
Cloud Consumption as a Service is sold as an annual license subscription.
To help you monitor use & predict cloud needs, Cloud Consumption as a Service helps you:
Cloud Discovery - Discover and monitor on-going cloud service use.
Usage and Trending - Analyze usage trends and understand CSP usage patterns. Monitor websites accessed by employees.
User Identification – Identify individuals using cloud services.
Advanced Categorization and Filtering - Sort CSPs by risk, by category, and remove secondary services.
To help manage risk and compliance, Cisco Cloud Consumption-as-a-Service offers:
CSP Risk Profiles - Review CSP risk profiles derived by comparing the vendor against nearly 150 industry-defined cloud risk controls. View lists of CSP certifications.
Data Security - Explore CSPs by high-risk categories. Prioritize risk mitigation actions by viewing a CSP risk distribution.
Cloud Service Anomaly Alerts - Detect anomalous services and abnormal usage patterns to identify threats to your network.
Trigger-based Alerts - Create your own service watch-list with trigger-based alerts to watch spikes in usage or discover high-risk usage anomalies.
For research and benchmarking, Cisco Cloud Consumption as a Service lets you:
Discover the right cloud services to meet business, risk, and compliance requirements. Compare cloud service vendor profiles to validate choice of providers.
Benchmark your cloud usage data against peer groups to understand industry norms and practices.
Based on customer interviews, we identified several activities that mid-market IT teams are currently undertaking when managing cloud providers, including:
Discovering which cloud service providers their organization were using through manually sorting through log files
Responding to data security anomalies from cloud providers
Researching and comparing new cloud providers
Assessing cloud provider risks by gathering certification data and evaluating their risk and security policies.
We estimate that an average IT department is spending 75 days annually supporting these types of activities.
The features of Cloud Consumption as a Service can reduce the time spent on these activities drastically. We estimate, that by using Cloud Consumption as a Service you can reduce time spent on these activities from 75 days to 15- a 5x reduction. Based on a hourly employee cost of $55/hour, this would be a cost savings of over $26,000.
***Findings based on time savings estimates for mid-market customers and derived from customer interviews. Time savings will differ based on customer complexity.
The outcomes of the Cloud Consumption as a Service Services directly address customer’s challenges in managing cloud and helps you:
Understand which cloud services are being used and predict future cloud needs. Benchmark cloud usage data against their peers.
Reduce security and financial exposure by identifying cloud risks and compliance issues.
Improve business agility with the right cloud services to meet their business, risk, and compliance requirements.
Meet the needs of internal groups and understand how and why they’re using public clouds.
Cut cloud costs by identifying ways to consolidate services.