 Hey, how you doing? This is Darryl O'Donnell from technology knobs. Just want to give you a quick briefing here on What the cloud means especially for senior leaders senior leaders being the chiefs deputy chiefs assistant chiefs? relatively senior people in the services in the first responder services and emerging management and security organizations Big trend right now is the cloud. The cloud is absolutely Everywhere you hear it all the time if you're dealing with anybody in it you're hearing this Kind of sounds like an ambiguous term it is it's not really changing. It's just a thing that the media have glommed on to But it's important for you So I just tell you a couple things on why you should care It's be like a two to four minute video and also tell you what it is you need to know So there's a couple things you're going to hear when you talk to people about the cloud one is private or public Now private means that you actually own the infrastructure You're actually standing it up. So you're going and buying a whole bunch of stuff Running it so you're gonna have your maintenance cost. You're gonna have your body cost to keep it going Public side it really is well, it's on the internet But you can secure it and make sure that it's only available to trusted people there are many Large law enforcement organizations for example who we're stepping up and building a shared Cloud that is on the quote Internet But it is actually secured and available only to those law enforcement personnel One of the key things you need to know what the cloud is the policy and governance are actually the harder problem to solve here then the Technical issues the technical issues are really quite easy Nowadays whether a computer is in the cloud whether it's a virtualized computer You'll hear that term too or whether it's a real computer the IT folks manage it without ever touching it anyways The only time they ever touch it really is if a hardware problem happens or when they first put it in the into the racks So I want to tell you what quick quickly what the cloud means so really at that using the cloud Computers and networking really becomes a lot cheaper. It's way faster You can ramp things up like almost instantaneously like click a button. Bam. You have a server in hand It's also way more flexible So if you have to search to do something if your development team needs to transition something They just basically click a couple buttons do the transition and shut down that transition machine Makes it really easy for your technical people to respond The biggest change to you though is it is now an operating cost in the past buying servers The big cost was the hardware by the capital cost, which is that one-time purchase and some maintenance, but typically the maintenance isn't very big With the cloud the operating cost There is no capital upfront cost really unless there's a stand-up charge, which is usually nominal So the real thing is is a you're transferring from your capital expenditure budget to your operating budget. That's a big change for you When you're dealing with your CIOs and your IT group as you do as a senior leader There's a couple things they're gonna want to know from you This will help them do their job. You're gonna want to basically as a leader You want to enable your team to make sure you know enough about your decisions But that you can get them to do their thing So when it comes to the CIO, there's a couple things cost-wise who bears them sometimes an IT organization The CIO will actually own a budget line item that gives kind of a overall budget for an organization That's happening more and more There also are service levels to be concerned about service levels. You'll hear the term SLA service level agreement That basically means how often or how much time do you want them to spend on keeping it on? You'll hear five nines is a massive high availability. We're talking telco grade This is your telephone not your cellular telephone, but your home your landline Never really goes down But five nines is very expensive a service level of five nines means that they really can't have any downtime is 24-7 if you can take your needs and push it down to a Three nines 99.9 or a little bit less and understand that if things do go down You have to respond to be able to get things going you need to consider your service level agreements Whether you're 24-7 or whether this is business level response many core systems would be 24-7 But those systems that add value, but you know if they disappeared for four or five hours You'd be able to recover. Well, those might be worth putting into the business level response of you know Monday to Friday Just because of the cost basis the CIOs are also going to be concerned and your CSO your Anybody who's doing anything with security and privacy? He's going to be concerned or want to understand how you are dealing with the various differences of security Because once it leaves your building There is a difference in security, but it can be mitigated They want to know how you would like them to mitigate it or to what level of comfort you need to mitigate the risk They can get into the technical mumbo jumbo and do that Also privacy because your system might be outside of firewall and in inside a different firewall Privacy becomes a concern with the cloud because you're a different target for Well for privacy concerns and that's something the CIO is always going to be worried about So I'm hoping this helps Just if you want more just subscribe below there's a link there and they'll get you more of you short little videos Get you kind of spun up on what the topics are of the day and those key issues and how you can deal with a few different things If you want to follow me on Twitter, I've also got a regular free webinar for senior leaders Your operators as well as your tech teams try to get those groups working together a bit better because what I find and I've done Too many projects where The business needs are clear the technical team thinks they understand the business needs But there's no proper Linkage between the two and the projects end up failing now my clients get me to do forensic audits all the time And I see this far too often so it's free web a webinar available for you If you want to talk privately just reach out again lots of links below. Hope this has helped once again I'm Darryl O'Donnell with technology knobs. Have an awesome day