Cloud Computing for Businesses - The Place to Be

[relaxed guitar music]

[narrator] Today we live in a world

where our lofty predictions of the future
have become normal.

It's normal for people to be connected
to the web from wherever they are,

all the time.

It's normal for people to work from home,
the office, and their mobile phones.

The cloud is no longer just a buzzword.
It's a part of our everyday lives.

The game has changed.

- We're a global software company.

We started out of Australia in
my apartment in Melbourne.

The company is now over 200 staff.
We have over 500 partners,

across 90 countries, in 60 languages.

- So I took off, moved to Whistler
and launched

what was originally Evogear.com,
which is today Evo.com,

out of my apartment here in Wallingford,
just down the street.

Back then it was just really
tiny; we kind of did everything.

We'd buy the stuff, we'd clean the stuff.
We'd ship it out of the garage.

- We're pretty much dedicated to being a
local, regional brewery.

Don't really have ambitions to sell beer
in Chicago, you know.

So in '95 we came over here to Ballard

and built this brewery, which is still,
you know, by brewery standards,

is kind of a little brewery.

But it kinda feels like home.
Ever since we got here, it's just like

"Ah, this is the brewery that we really
wanted to be."

- A lot of the pain in growing, like in
your infrastructure, is when things

aren't working seamlessly.

Working through those times and figuring
out, okay, how are we gonna

improve the way these systems
talk to each other

and whatnot. It's an ongoing topic,
for sure, as you scale.

You're always having new
challenges, when it comes to

integration of systems.

- It does seem like right now there's
a certain amount of redundancy

that's just like, well, why would you
enter this sale over here

and then come back over here
and re-enter it over here?

- For our business, we're able to
set up, you know, in London,

in China, in Seattle and Melbourne, with
an infrastructure on Office 365 to connect

back to our head office, so they can
manage the infrastructure.

- All of our guys have smartphones.

That has improved the communication
quality and speed enormously.

- I mean, flexibility when it comes to
being able to work remote[ly], is huge.

Right now I'm already using, you know,
a whole number of different devices,

and it's not totally seamless at this
point, but there's no question that

the integration of devices is critical.

- Our tagline for our business is
"Workflow for everyone."

So we think, you know, any device,
anytime, anywhere, is the play.

Cloud can give that to us now.

The mobility warrior is what we're chasing
because people have powerful tools at home

and want them operating in their
enterprise.

Our tools have to end up on those devices.

- If there were a cohesive database, and
particularly if it was in the cloud,

where we did have all those sectors
integrated, it would be great.

There would be a lot of time saved.
[laughs]

- [narrator] Powerful enterprise software
that was once only available to

the biggest companies
is now available to the smallest.

It's the perfect storm of advancements
in mobility, flexibility, productivity

and affordability.

And it's setting up the small- and medium-
size business market with a massive

growth opportunity, making it clear that
this is the place to be.

Be what's next. Microsoft.

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