An audit of News UK’s IT processes revealed it was missing the correct monitoring tools to ensure proactive visibility of its infrastructure and applications, resulting in downtime and lost revenue. After installing the Blue Medora True Visibility Suite for VMware vRealize Operations, the newspaper’s P2 incidents have been reduced from 15 to 2 per month, and of those 2, it took only 20% of the time it took previously to recover. News UK has also seen reduced downtime amounting to 95% (994 mins a month versus 43 mins) and improved operations through: • A clearer, more holistic view into its on-premise Cisco UCS, NetApp and NetScaler environments • Faster identification of any issues and clear guidance on their resolution • More focused pinpointing of problems leading to improved employee productivity The expected saving on storage maintenance costs will be over £3 million over four years, with the overall cost savings over the next four years estimated at nearly £6 million.

1. Juan Beetge, News UK
Alain Geenrits, Blue Medora
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Hot off the press: News
UK simplifies SDDC
management

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Meet your speakers
SIMPLIFYING THE
SDDC
Juan Beetge
Senior Storage and Compute Manager
News UK
Alain Geenrits
Director Solution Architects EMEA
Blue Medora

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Deploy an intelligent operations
platform with a single view of the
entire stack.
Operationalise
Tap into the vROps analytics
engine and machine learning
capabilities using a
comprehensive data set.
Analyse
Move from a heterogenous stack
to a converged infrastructure.
Modernise
Step 2 Step 3Step 1
Three Steps to Simplifying the SDDC
AGENDA

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About Us
NEWS
UK
4000+
EMPLOYEES
1.8m
NEWSPAPERS
EACH DAY
15+
BRANDS

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Team
200+ Technology Staff
75 Infrastructure &
Operations Team
Content management
system and specific
editorial and workflow
applications
About our IT
NEWS
UK
Virtual Machines
Nearly 1,500 VMs
Applications Databases
50 in total

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Downtime on
deadlines
The challenge
16.5Average hours
downtime a month
15Average P2
incidents
a month
#1: Modernise

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• vRealize Operations
• VMware vSphere
• FlexPod solution
• Cisco UCS servers
• NetApp storage
• Cisco Nexus switches
• Citrix Netscaler load
balancers
Infrastructure NetworkVirtualisation
Our solution: modernise
STEP
1

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Full-stack
visibility
The challenge
#2: Operationalise
4+Tools to navigate

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Especially powerful with combining: custom reports,
dashboards and alerts.
Includes VMware monitoring
Deep out-of-the-box VMware monitoring.
Implemented IT Operational Analytics
Working on reclaiming up to 20% of resources, using
accurate analytics to right-size our environment.
Covers hybrid-cloud
Extensible platform allows for monitoring across
hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
Our solution: vRealize Suite with True Visibility
Step 2

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Keeping the
Presses running
The challenge
14Tier-1 applications
1hrRecovery Time
Objective
3hrChange Window
Mon - Thu
#3: Analyze

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Our solution: use vROps to analyze and act
Combine multiple symptoms to
show actual use
Recommendations to resolve
the issue
Automated actions available
Symptoms not limited to badges:
any object, any metric
Step 3

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Reduced average downtime by 95%
Improved MTTR, by monitoring different layers at once.
Due to improved capacity planning, eliminating nearly £3 million in
storage maintenance costs over four years, with the overall estimated 4-
year cost savings at more than £6 million.
Headline results
News UK

13. ABOUT US
Laser-focused on platform extensions
for 9+ years.

14. Applications
Data
Cloud & Virtualization
Infrastructure
Aggregate and Analyze Across the Entire Stack
BLUE MEDORA AND VREALIZE OPERATIONS

15. • VMware signs on as an
investor in Blue Medora’s
Series A funding.
• A VMware representative
joins the board.
• Blue Medora joins
VMware’s TAP.
• Work begins on first
vRealize plugins.
2014
JAN 2015
1H 2016
SEPT 2016
VMware Relationship Continues to Grow
BLUE MEDORA
• Blue Medora realigns
GTM from individual
management packs, to
tiered “True Visibility
Suites.”
• True Visibility Suite
packages are built to
align with vRealize
categories.
• VMware and Blue
Medora launch a joint
reseller agreement.
• The True Visibility Suite
is added to VMware price
lists (Model N – SKUs).
APR 2017
• Blue Medora joins the
VMware vCloud Air
Network Program.

16. Databases Network &
Compute
Extending vRealize Operations
BLUE MEDORA
Enterprise
Applications
√
Virtualization Storage

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CALMING THE STORM:
HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTS
Greg Hohertz
Principal Solution Architect
Demo

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CALMING THE STORM:
HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTS
Greg Hohertz
Principal Solution Architect
Q&A

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