In late 2011, Forrester Research started work on a research project commissioned by NetApp that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware’s ESX Server virtualization platform.
Forrester analysts Stephanie Balaouras and Andrew Reichman published a report entitled “Controlling Storage Cost Amid High Growth”, dated February 3rd, 2010.
The report focuses on the growth of storage capacity in the last five years and how, with the end of the recession, being smart about storage efficiency is more critical than ever.
For information on NetApp storage solutions visit http://www.majentasolutions.com
The Total Economic Impact Of NetApp Storage For Desktop VirtualizationNetApp
In late 2009, Forrester Research started work on a research project commissioned by NetApp that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by adopting NetApp storage for desktop virtualization.
The 5S Approach to Performance Tuning by Chuck EzellDatavail
If your organization relies on data, optimizing the performance of your database can increase your earnings and savings. Many factors large and small can affect performance, so fine-tuning your database is essential. Performance Tuning expert and Senior Applications Tuner for Datavail, Chuck Ezell, sheds light on the right questions to get the answers that will help you move forward by using a defined approach, refered to as 5S.
This performance tuning white paper addresses each stage of this novel approach, as well as key performance issues: SQL, Space, Sessions, Statistics, and Scheduled Processes.
So your future direction doesn’t include Oracle® E-Business Suite. Your business is moving to Oracle Cloud, migrating to another system, or undergoing an acquisition/divestiture with a company on a different ERP. Your business depends on making the transition with minimum disruption. Post-transition ERP posture must be ready instantly after the change, and key data must be aligned to the new system BEFORE the changeover to avoid a costly transition. To leave EBS, there are steps to take NOW for a smoother exit.
E-Business Suite Customization Impact Assessmenteprentise
The need to manage changes in your Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS) environments is inevitable. Some change will occur from day-to-day management of the environment. Other changes – such as mergers, acquisitions, functionality usage expansion, compliance, patching, etc. – will lead to much greater impact on those environments, necessitating clear and well-controlled change management procedures.
In addition, most organizations have created many customizations as part of their implementation to support specific business requirements. A consequence of this is that the potential impact on those customizations must be considered as part of any significant change event.
In this webinar presented by guest speaker Gordon Halley of ConfigSnapshot, we will explore both general configuration and customization within EBS to look at how these can be managed during different types of change, such as changing the business structure, or chart of accounts, upgrades, patching, and more.
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Scenario: As an IT administrator for your organization, your supervisor has given you an assignment to review and evaluate ways for improving the network for International Plastics. Your
Forrester analysts Stephanie Balaouras and Andrew Reichman published a report entitled “Controlling Storage Cost Amid High Growth”, dated February 3rd, 2010.
The report focuses on the growth of storage capacity in the last five years and how, with the end of the recession, being smart about storage efficiency is more critical than ever.
For information on NetApp storage solutions visit http://www.majentasolutions.com
The Total Economic Impact Of NetApp Storage For Desktop VirtualizationNetApp
In late 2009, Forrester Research started work on a research project commissioned by NetApp that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by adopting NetApp storage for desktop virtualization.
The 5S Approach to Performance Tuning by Chuck EzellDatavail
If your organization relies on data, optimizing the performance of your database can increase your earnings and savings. Many factors large and small can affect performance, so fine-tuning your database is essential. Performance Tuning expert and Senior Applications Tuner for Datavail, Chuck Ezell, sheds light on the right questions to get the answers that will help you move forward by using a defined approach, refered to as 5S.
This performance tuning white paper addresses each stage of this novel approach, as well as key performance issues: SQL, Space, Sessions, Statistics, and Scheduled Processes.
So your future direction doesn’t include Oracle® E-Business Suite. Your business is moving to Oracle Cloud, migrating to another system, or undergoing an acquisition/divestiture with a company on a different ERP. Your business depends on making the transition with minimum disruption. Post-transition ERP posture must be ready instantly after the change, and key data must be aligned to the new system BEFORE the changeover to avoid a costly transition. To leave EBS, there are steps to take NOW for a smoother exit.
E-Business Suite Customization Impact Assessmenteprentise
The need to manage changes in your Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS) environments is inevitable. Some change will occur from day-to-day management of the environment. Other changes – such as mergers, acquisitions, functionality usage expansion, compliance, patching, etc. – will lead to much greater impact on those environments, necessitating clear and well-controlled change management procedures.
In addition, most organizations have created many customizations as part of their implementation to support specific business requirements. A consequence of this is that the potential impact on those customizations must be considered as part of any significant change event.
In this webinar presented by guest speaker Gordon Halley of ConfigSnapshot, we will explore both general configuration and customization within EBS to look at how these can be managed during different types of change, such as changing the business structure, or chart of accounts, upgrades, patching, and more.
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Scenario: As an IT administrator for your organization, your supervisor has given you an assignment to review and evaluate ways for improving the network for International Plastics. Your
The Total Economic Impact Of NetApp Solutions For Cloud Service ProvidersNetApp
In late 2011, NetApp commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and business case justification for independent service providers to build and deliver storage-as-a-service (StaaS) to their customers using NetApp solutions. The purpose of this study is to give service providers a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact on their businesses if they build their cloud service offering on the NetApp platform.
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of System Storage SAN Volume Controller on enterprise organizations. SVC is designed to simplify and centralize storage infrastructure and offer benefits of storage virtualization for large enterprises.
Nintex Workflow for Sharepoint - Return on Investment Whitepaper by Forrester...David J Rosenthal
Nintex commissioned Forrester Research to conduct aTotal
Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential
return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by
deploying Nintex’s workflow platform. The purpose of this
study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the
potential financial impact of using the Nintex workflow platform
within their organizations.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risksassociated
with the implementation of the Nintex workflow platform, which we will refer to as the Platform, Forrester interviewed several
customers with multiple years of experience using Nintex Workflow and Nintex Forms. These customers recognize the value
inherent in automating processes. Their colleagues and customers are working both in offices and on mobile devices and
are spread across many countries. Content necessaryto collaborate and make business decisions is stored in many
applications across these devices. They have some well-defined processes, but the steps leading up to these processes or
to connect closely related processes are loosely defined and manual. With Nintex Workflow, customers can automate their
processes and create workflows that connect their people, processes, and content. With Nintex Forms, Nintex provides an
easy way to collect data from colleagues and customers within the workflow. Using Nintex Mobile, customers can extend
these workflows to users who are on the go. With Nintex Connectors, customers can easily integrate cloud services and lineof-business applications into their workflows.
Prior to using the Platform, these customers were mostly relying on custom code to automate processes. However, it was
difficult and time-consuming to build workflows, and many processes remained manual (e.g. paper-based,email, excel files)
while a backlog of requests for automation grew. This left customers frustrated with process inefficiencies and the inability to
automate faster. With the Platform, customers are able to automate processes in pace with demand, connect the right
people and data in each process, and easily make changes to workflows as processes change. This results in increased
productivity for end users and IT, reduced costs associated with automation, better collaboration, and higher quality of work.
O Impacto Econômico do Windows 2008 R2 em uma empresa.ISH Tecnologia
Fantástico estudo da Forrester Consulting sobre o impacto econômico do Windows Server 2008 R2 em uma empresa. Para maiores informações visite http://www.ish.com.br
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By now, it is well known that moving to the cloud saves on various costs, but exactly how much benefit can you expect to realize? How do the experts evaluate platforms and what do they see as the key challenges a platform will need to overcome? This paper answers all this and demonstrates how to evaluate an IaaS service for you.
Microsoft India - Total Economic Impact of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade ...Microsoft Private Cloud
Conducting in-depth interviews with an existing SQL customer that upgraded to SQL Server 2008, Forrester found that the organization achieved benefits, some easily measured for this ROI study and others, equally as valuable, that could not be quantified. Specifically, the benefits fall into the following categories: 1) avoided adding SQL Server 2008 servers – license and hardware savings; 2) avoided adding storage; 3) eliminated third-party software; 4) avoided hiring additional IT employees; 5) increased user productivity – business and IT; 6) improved database performance
and provided enhanced features; 7) improved data security; and 8) improved working experience for the database administration team. Only the first five benefits were quantified as part of the ROI
analysis. To fully understand the potential effect on their organizations, readers should consider all benefits, whether or not they could be quantified for this study.
Forrester’s in-depth interviews with Embarcadero’s customer yielded several important observations. DBArtisan provided significant productivity gains among its application development, database administration, and IT infrastructure staff measured in terms of labor cost savings. DBArtisan can help improve availability, performance, and security of enterprise databases. Based on these findings, companies looking to implement DBArtisan can see cost savings and productivity benefits. This study is meant to provide the reader with a framework to examine the costs and benefits.
When assessing backup software vendors, IT leaders must avoid being taken in by flashy new features. Backup software should really be called restore software as failure in backup is failure to meet recovery objectives. Always evaluate features in light of these objectives.
Use this research to:
•Understand new features and develop a strategy to meet new challenges to enterprise backup, such as ever-increasing backup sizes, backup of virtual infrastructures, and evolving backup architecture strategy.
•Evaluate eight different backup software vendors for best fit using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape.
•Use Info-Tech’s scenario analysis to shortlist vendors according to your current situation and submit an RFP to vendors, score their responses, and prepare a backup software demo script.
•Assess implementation pitfalls in light of overall data management, security, and compliance requirements.
Ensure that you make the best-fit backup software decisions for enterprise availability and restore requirements, from strategy to selection to implementation.
Forrester interviewed a Citrix customer currently using Citrix XenApp to determine the cost savings and business benefits of XenApp. In the process, they discovered that the company reduced desktop support costs by $1.7 million, by delivering key business applications via XenApp. Read this white paper to examine the use cases and the cost savings and benefits achieved.
This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the NetApp FAS2200 series with Flash Pool. ESG Lab focused on key areas that make the FAS2200 an attractive offering for midsized businesses and distributed enterprises: cost-effective mixed workload performance, ease of implementation, and storage efficiency.
Keynote Presentation: Overcoming Storage Challenges Associated With Server Vi...jameshub12
Server virtualization technology is deployed near-universally in large midmarket and enterprise organizations. But virtualization stresses every area of the infrastructure it touches – from the obvious, like servers, to the not so obvious, the storage infrastructure. This presentation will look at ESG's findings related to the current state of server virtualization adoption, and how each stage faces and needs to overcome different storage challenges. It will also look at how scale-out storage solutions can help users overcome some of the storage challenges associated with and impeding early-stage server virtualization initiatives. Attendees will learn:
* The current state of server virtualization deployments
* The storage challenges associated with each stage of server virtualization maturity
* The impact server virtualization will have on storage management and tools
* How scale out storage solutions address the key challenges associated with supporting virtual server environments
Webinar featuring Forrester TEI study: Driving 496% ROI with Tasktop VizTasktop
Business and IT leaders are under constant pressure to deliver outstanding customer experiences, fueled by technology and innovation, at the speed of the market and at a competitive cost.
To better understand how Tasktop Viz™ can connect enterprise transformation initiatives with financial benefits, Tasktop commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential ROI enterprises may benefit from by deploying the Tasktop Viz value stream management solution. What the study found was significant, with Tasktop Viz users experiencing up to 496% ROI over three years.
In this on-demand webinar, Tasktop CPO, Nicole Bryan, and guest speaker, Forrester Senior Consultant, Sam Conway, discuss the findings of the TEI study and what implementing Tasktop Viz could mean for your business.
DevOps the NetApp Way: 10 Rules for Forming a DevOps TeamNetApp
Does your enterprise IT organization practice DevOps without a common team approach? To create a standardized way for development and operations teams to work together at NetApp, the IT team differentiates a DevOps team from a regular development team based on these 10 rules.
The Total Economic Impact Of NetApp Solutions For Cloud Service ProvidersNetApp
In late 2011, NetApp commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and business case justification for independent service providers to build and deliver storage-as-a-service (StaaS) to their customers using NetApp solutions. The purpose of this study is to give service providers a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact on their businesses if they build their cloud service offering on the NetApp platform.
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of System Storage SAN Volume Controller on enterprise organizations. SVC is designed to simplify and centralize storage infrastructure and offer benefits of storage virtualization for large enterprises.
Nintex Workflow for Sharepoint - Return on Investment Whitepaper by Forrester...David J Rosenthal
Nintex commissioned Forrester Research to conduct aTotal
Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential
return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by
deploying Nintex’s workflow platform. The purpose of this
study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the
potential financial impact of using the Nintex workflow platform
within their organizations.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risksassociated
with the implementation of the Nintex workflow platform, which we will refer to as the Platform, Forrester interviewed several
customers with multiple years of experience using Nintex Workflow and Nintex Forms. These customers recognize the value
inherent in automating processes. Their colleagues and customers are working both in offices and on mobile devices and
are spread across many countries. Content necessaryto collaborate and make business decisions is stored in many
applications across these devices. They have some well-defined processes, but the steps leading up to these processes or
to connect closely related processes are loosely defined and manual. With Nintex Workflow, customers can automate their
processes and create workflows that connect their people, processes, and content. With Nintex Forms, Nintex provides an
easy way to collect data from colleagues and customers within the workflow. Using Nintex Mobile, customers can extend
these workflows to users who are on the go. With Nintex Connectors, customers can easily integrate cloud services and lineof-business applications into their workflows.
Prior to using the Platform, these customers were mostly relying on custom code to automate processes. However, it was
difficult and time-consuming to build workflows, and many processes remained manual (e.g. paper-based,email, excel files)
while a backlog of requests for automation grew. This left customers frustrated with process inefficiencies and the inability to
automate faster. With the Platform, customers are able to automate processes in pace with demand, connect the right
people and data in each process, and easily make changes to workflows as processes change. This results in increased
productivity for end users and IT, reduced costs associated with automation, better collaboration, and higher quality of work.
O Impacto Econômico do Windows 2008 R2 em uma empresa.ISH Tecnologia
Fantástico estudo da Forrester Consulting sobre o impacto econômico do Windows Server 2008 R2 em uma empresa. Para maiores informações visite http://www.ish.com.br
Azure IaaS: Cost savings, new revenue opportunities, and business benefits Abhishek Sood
By now, it is well known that moving to the cloud saves on various costs, but exactly how much benefit can you expect to realize? How do the experts evaluate platforms and what do they see as the key challenges a platform will need to overcome? This paper answers all this and demonstrates how to evaluate an IaaS service for you.
Microsoft India - Total Economic Impact of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade ...Microsoft Private Cloud
Conducting in-depth interviews with an existing SQL customer that upgraded to SQL Server 2008, Forrester found that the organization achieved benefits, some easily measured for this ROI study and others, equally as valuable, that could not be quantified. Specifically, the benefits fall into the following categories: 1) avoided adding SQL Server 2008 servers – license and hardware savings; 2) avoided adding storage; 3) eliminated third-party software; 4) avoided hiring additional IT employees; 5) increased user productivity – business and IT; 6) improved database performance
and provided enhanced features; 7) improved data security; and 8) improved working experience for the database administration team. Only the first five benefits were quantified as part of the ROI
analysis. To fully understand the potential effect on their organizations, readers should consider all benefits, whether or not they could be quantified for this study.
Forrester’s in-depth interviews with Embarcadero’s customer yielded several important observations. DBArtisan provided significant productivity gains among its application development, database administration, and IT infrastructure staff measured in terms of labor cost savings. DBArtisan can help improve availability, performance, and security of enterprise databases. Based on these findings, companies looking to implement DBArtisan can see cost savings and productivity benefits. This study is meant to provide the reader with a framework to examine the costs and benefits.
When assessing backup software vendors, IT leaders must avoid being taken in by flashy new features. Backup software should really be called restore software as failure in backup is failure to meet recovery objectives. Always evaluate features in light of these objectives.
Use this research to:
•Understand new features and develop a strategy to meet new challenges to enterprise backup, such as ever-increasing backup sizes, backup of virtual infrastructures, and evolving backup architecture strategy.
•Evaluate eight different backup software vendors for best fit using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape.
•Use Info-Tech’s scenario analysis to shortlist vendors according to your current situation and submit an RFP to vendors, score their responses, and prepare a backup software demo script.
•Assess implementation pitfalls in light of overall data management, security, and compliance requirements.
Ensure that you make the best-fit backup software decisions for enterprise availability and restore requirements, from strategy to selection to implementation.
Forrester interviewed a Citrix customer currently using Citrix XenApp to determine the cost savings and business benefits of XenApp. In the process, they discovered that the company reduced desktop support costs by $1.7 million, by delivering key business applications via XenApp. Read this white paper to examine the use cases and the cost savings and benefits achieved.
This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the NetApp FAS2200 series with Flash Pool. ESG Lab focused on key areas that make the FAS2200 an attractive offering for midsized businesses and distributed enterprises: cost-effective mixed workload performance, ease of implementation, and storage efficiency.
Keynote Presentation: Overcoming Storage Challenges Associated With Server Vi...jameshub12
Server virtualization technology is deployed near-universally in large midmarket and enterprise organizations. But virtualization stresses every area of the infrastructure it touches – from the obvious, like servers, to the not so obvious, the storage infrastructure. This presentation will look at ESG's findings related to the current state of server virtualization adoption, and how each stage faces and needs to overcome different storage challenges. It will also look at how scale-out storage solutions can help users overcome some of the storage challenges associated with and impeding early-stage server virtualization initiatives. Attendees will learn:
* The current state of server virtualization deployments
* The storage challenges associated with each stage of server virtualization maturity
* The impact server virtualization will have on storage management and tools
* How scale out storage solutions address the key challenges associated with supporting virtual server environments
Webinar featuring Forrester TEI study: Driving 496% ROI with Tasktop VizTasktop
Business and IT leaders are under constant pressure to deliver outstanding customer experiences, fueled by technology and innovation, at the speed of the market and at a competitive cost.
To better understand how Tasktop Viz™ can connect enterprise transformation initiatives with financial benefits, Tasktop commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential ROI enterprises may benefit from by deploying the Tasktop Viz value stream management solution. What the study found was significant, with Tasktop Viz users experiencing up to 496% ROI over three years.
In this on-demand webinar, Tasktop CPO, Nicole Bryan, and guest speaker, Forrester Senior Consultant, Sam Conway, discuss the findings of the TEI study and what implementing Tasktop Viz could mean for your business.
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Spot Lets NetApp Get the Most Out of the CloudNetApp
Prior to NetApp acquiring Spot.io, two of its IT teams had adopted Spot in their operations: Product Engineering for Cloud Volumes ONTAP test automation and NetApp IT for corporate business applications. Check out the results in this infographic.
NetApp has fully embraced tools that allow for seamless, collaborative work from home, and as a result was fully prepared to minimize COVID-19's impact on how we conduct business. Check out this infographic for a look at results from the new remote work reality.
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At Cisco and NetApp, seeing our customers succeed in their digital transformations means that we’ve succeeded too. But that’s only one of the ways we measure our performance. What’s another way? Hearing how our wide-ranging IT support helps Cisco and NetApp thrive. Here’s what makes FlexPod an indispensable part of Cisco’s and NetApp’s IT departments.
With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de-facto architecture for the enterprise, organizations everywhere are modernizing to deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and workloads such as AI-driven IoT and Hyperledgers. Shifting from on-premises to public cloud services, private clouds, and moving from disk to flash – sometimes concurrently – opens the door to enormous potential, but also the unintended consequence of IT complexity.
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10 Reasons Why Your SAP Applications Belong on NetAppNetApp
NetApp has been supporting SAP for 20 years, delivering advanced solutions for SAP applications. Here are 10 reasons why your SAP applications belong on NetApp!
Redefining HCI: How to Go from Hyper Converged to Hybrid Cloud InfrastructureNetApp
The hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) market is entering a new phase of maturity. A modern HCI solution requires a private cloud platform that integrates with public clouds to create a consistent hybrid multi-cloud experience.
During this webinar, NetApp and an IDC guest speaker covered what led to the next generation of hyper converged infrastructure and which five capabilities are required to go from hyper converged to hybrid cloud infrastructure.
As we enter 2019, what stands out is how trends in business and technology are connected by common themes. For example, AI is at the heart of trends in development, data management, and delivery of applications and services at the edge, core, and cloud. Also essential are containerization as a critical enabling technology and the increasing intelligence of IoT devices at the edge. Navigating the tempests of transformation are developers, whose requirements are driving the rapid creation of new paradigms and technologies that they must then master in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage. Here are some of our perspectives and predictions for 2019.
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Einer aktuellen Umfrage des führenden Datenma- nagementspezialisten in der Hybrid Cloud NetApp zufolge gewinnt künstliche Intelligenz (KI) in deut- schen Unternehmen zunehmend an Relevanz.
Iperconvergenza come migliora gli economics del tuo ITNetApp
In this NetApp Webinar we present how NetApp HCI helps improve the economics of IT: accelerating and ensuring performance for each application, simplifying your Data Center and make your architecture more scalable by reducing waste, implementing and expanding your HCI infrastructure quickly and inexpensively, making your management even simpler and more intuitive, saving time and using the skills you already have in the company.
NetApp IT’s Tiered Archive Approach for Active IQNetApp
NetApp AutoSupport technology proactively monitors the health of NetApp systems installed at customer’s location and provides 24/7 actionable intelligence to optimize their storage environment. The amount of data received back to NetApp doubles approximately every 16 months. To manage the swelling waves of data to archive, NetApp IT sought a more flexible solution.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
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💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
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The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
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3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
The Total Economic Impact of NetApp's Storage Solutions For Server Virtualization
1. A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study Prepared For NetApp
The Total Economic Impact Of NetApp’s Storage
Solutions For Server Virtualization
Project Director: Bob Cormier, Vice President, Principal Consultant
Forrester Consulting
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Executive Summary
In late 2011, Forrester Research started work on a research project commissioned by NetApp that focused on
examining the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting NetApp’s storage solutions for
server virtualization in conjunction with VMware’s ESX Server virtualization platform.
This study highlights the benefits and costs of deploying NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization across the
enterprise of a composite Organization (see section titled Composite Organization Description). The findings in this
study are in large part based on in-depth interviews conducted by Forrester with a total of 12 NetApp customers: five
customers in late 2011 and seven customers in 2009, each of which are using NetApp’s storage solutions for server
virtualization. As with the interviewed customers, our composite Organization is focusing on the benefits virtualization
brings to business-critical applications such as Oracle, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, SAP, and
financials. In addition, it intends to virtualize the following: file, print, Active Directory, small database, domain name
system (DNS), and web servers. The Organization will also be considering the benefits of NetApp’s Data ONTAP
operating system, NetApp OnCommand including Virtual Storage Console, and back-up and recovery of virtual data.
The study examines the estimated ROI for the composite Organization and presents the aggregate findings derived
from the interview and analysis process as well as our independent research.
The study found that for our composite Organization, a successful, well-planned implementation will allow quantifiable
benefits and cost savings to accrue to the Organization in the following areas totaling $987,620 (risk adjusted):
$56,420 — reduction in storage hardware and software costs — using data deduplication.
$16,800 — reduction in storage hardware and software costs — using thin provisioning and FlexClone.
$158,400 — media and software associated with centralized backup.
$264,000 — labor savings for backup and recovery storage administration.
$132,000 — labor savings using NetApp Virtual Storage Console.
$360,000 — benefits of faster eCommerce application deployment (gross profits).
The interviewed customers identified the following additional benefits of using NetApp’s storage solutions for server
virtualization, but they were not able to quantify the benefits at the present time:
Most interviewed customers acknowledged savings in power and cooling costs as a result of server and storage
virtualization. However, savings dollars could not be specifically apportioned to NetApp storage because of legacy
server use of direct-attached storage.
About two-thirds of the 12 interviewed customers indicated that server and storage virtualization would defer (or
eliminate) the eventual expansion of their data centers. Each customer estimated the cost avoidance savings with
a wide range of results ($300,000 to $2.3 million); however it’s not possible to apportion savings specific to
NetApp due to other variables such as: pre-virtualization data center utilization, company growth rates, and its
current and future plans to outsource data center expansion to cloud service providers.
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact on their
organizations of NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware’s ESX Server and
virtualization platform. Forrester’s aim is to show all calculations and assumptions used in the analysis. Readers should
use this study to better understand and communicate a business case for investing in NetApp’s storage solutions for
server virtualization.
Methodology
NetApp selected Forrester for this project because of our industry expertise in server consolidation, virtualization,
storage technologies, and Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology. TEI not only measures costs and
cost reduction (areas that are typically accounted for within IT) but also weighs the enabling value of a technology in
increasing the effectiveness of overall business processes.
For this study, Forrester employed four fundamental elements of its TEI methodology in modeling NetApp’s storage
solutions for server virtualization:
1. Costs and cost reduction.
2. Benefits to the entire organization.
3. Flexibility.
4. Risk.
Given the increasing sophistication that enterprises have regarding cost analyses related to IT investments, Forrester’s
TEI methodology serves an extremely useful purpose by providing a complete picture of the total economic impact of
purchase decisions. Please see Appendix A for additional information on the TEI methodology.
Approach
Forrester used a five-step approach for this study:
1. Forrester gathered data from existing Forrester research relative to NetApp’s storage solutions for server
virtualization.
2. Forrester interviewed NetApp’s marketing, product management, and sales personnel to fully understand
the potential (or intended) value proposition of its solutions.
3. Using knowledge of the NetApp solution, as well as input from existing Forrester research, a Forrester
representative conducted in-depth discussions with 12 of NetApp’s customers regarding their experiences
with NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization.
4. Forrester constructed a financial model representative of data collected in the interviews.
5. Forrester created this study, which represents and examines the estimated value of the findings derived
from the customer interview and analysis process and from Forrester’s independent research.
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Key Findings
Our interviews and subsequent financial analysis found that the Organization experienced the risk-adjusted ROI,
payback period, benefits, and costs shown in Table 1.
Table 1
The Organization — Three-Year Risk-Adjusted ROI, Payback Period, Costs, And Benefits
Risk-adjusted Payback Total benefits Total costs
NPV
ROI period (PV) (PV)
152% 11 months $823,210 $326,780 $496,430
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
The three-year risk-adjusted total net present value (NPV) of $496,430 represents the net cost savings and benefits
attributed to using the NetApp solution when compared with the costs of the Organization’s storage environment
before consolidation and virtualization (see details below in the Costs, Benefits, Flexibility, and Risks sections). In
addition, the risk-adjusted ROI was a very favorable 152%.
Table 1 illustrates the risk-adjusted cash flow for the composite Organization, based on data and characteristics
obtained during the customer interview process. Forrester risk-adjusts these values to take into account the potential
uncertainty that exists in estimating the costs and benefits of a technology investment. The risk-adjusted value is meant
to provide a conservative estimate, incorporating any potential risk factors that may later affect the original cost and
benefit estimates. For this study, Forrester applied a 20% risk adjustment — i.e., a reduction of 20% — to all benefits
to reflect the risks. For a more in-depth explanation of risk and the risk adjustments used in this study, please see the
Risk section.
The objective of this study is not to illustrate savings that other enterprises can obtain by deploying the NetApp solution
but rather to identify savings that the interviewed customers experienced. These results can be used as a guide to allow
other enterprises to determine the appropriate benefits for their particular environment.
Disclosures
The reader should be aware of the following:
The study was commissioned by NetApp and delivered by the Forrester Consulting group.
NetApp reviewed and provided feedback to Forrester, but Forrester maintained editorial control over the study
and its findings and did not accept changes to the study that contradicted Forrester’s findings or obscured the
meaning of the study.
NetApp provided the customer names for the interviews.
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Forrester makes no assumptions as to the potential return on investment that other organizations will receive.
Forrester strongly advises that readers should use their own estimates within the framework provided in the study
to determine the appropriateness of an investment in NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization.
Forrester does not endorse NetApp or its storage solutions.
The study is not a direct or implied market or competitive comparison.
About NetApp’s Storage Solutions For Server Virtualization And VMware
NetApp Storage Solutions For Server Virtualization
According to NetApp, its storage solutions for server virtualization complement the benefits provided to servers by
VMware, enabling organizations to:
Save up to 50% on storage power, cooling, and space and lower overall data center costs using thin provisioning
and snapshot copies.
Bring products, services, and projects to market faster with instant storage provisioning.
Frequently and efficiently back up data with various recovery points using many space-efficient snapshot copies,
each representing a potential rollback point.
Provide self-service tools for virtual server administrators to schedule snapshot frequency and perform data
restores in the event of system or user corruption or deletion.
Organizations may also experience a smooth transition to their storage infrastructure with NetApp’s specialized
virtualization services, including assessment, implementation, and management delivered by experienced, certified
professionals, using proven methodologies and best practices.
VMware ESX Server
According to NetApp, VMware and its Cloud Infrastructure and Management Suite is comprised of products that help
organizations deploy and manage highly available and dynamic data centers. The foundation of the Cloud
Infrastructure and Management Suite is vSphere, the hypervisor or virtualization layer that allows a traditional physical
server to be provisioned into multiple virtual machines. A key value of a virtual machine is that it acts just like a
traditional server, thus requiring no or only minimal change to an application in order for it to operate within the
virtual infrastructure. The hypervisor layer addresses one of the main goals of the legacy data center — maintain
application isolation by running each application on its own server — yet ESX allows organizations to aggregate
multiple virtual servers onto a single physical hosting platform.
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Customer Interview Highlights
Forrester derived its conclusions in large part from information received in a series of in-depth interviews conducted by
Forrester with executives and personnel at five NetApp customers in late 2011 and seven NetApp customers in 2009, all
of which are using NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware’s ESX Server and
virtualization platform. The following is a brief description of the interviewed customers, all of which were promised
anonymity:
Customers Interviewed In 2011
1. An international specialty insurance and benefit management company headquartered in the United
States. It has been using NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware
ESX Server for more than 12 months. This includes OnCommand unified manager, SnapManager, and
NetApp Virtual Storage Console. It has virtualized 75% of its business-critical applications, including
Microsoft SharePoint, SQL, and MySQL database production servers and web servers.
2. A northeastern US state university with four campuses offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in a
full range of disciplines. Its IT staff of 13 supports the needs of more than 15,000 students and 1,400 faculty
and staff. It has been using NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware
ESX Server since 2006. It has virtualized 97% of its data center, including the following business critical
applications: Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, and SQL application servers.
3. A Canadian-based not-for-profit organization that specializes in providing data to broadcasters,
advertisers, and agencies. It has been using NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization in
conjunction with VMware ESX Server for six years. It has virtualized 95% of its data center, including the
following business-critical applications: Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint, SQL, Oracle, MySQL, and
proprietary databases of customer data. It also uses NetApp Provisioning Manager and OnCommand
Insight Balance (formerly Akorri BalancePoint).
4. A midwestern US community credit union with more than 200 employees working at headquarters and 14
branch offices. It has been using NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with
VMware ESX Server for six months. It has virtualized 80% of its data center, including business-critical
applications SQL Server and Oracle 10g database.
5. One of the US’ largest home healthcare providers with product and service offerings that include
respiratory services, infusion therapy, and medical equipment for patients in their homes. It has been using
NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware ESX Server for seven
months to virtualize 80% to 85% of its data center, including business-critical applications such as: Oracle,
Exchange front end, Active Directory, and custom applications built on WebLogic.
Customers Interviewed In 2009
1. An institute of science for one of the leading universities in the US whose server and storage needs have
grown dramatically from 16 physical servers and 4 TB of disk to 100 physical servers, 30 virtual servers, and
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more than 200 TB of NetApp storage in the past 4.5 years. It has been using NetApp storage solutions for
server virtualization in conjunction with VMware ESX Server for more than four years.
2. A leader in remote online data backup and managed data protection solutions, including online data
backup, disk-based recovery, high-availability, email archiving, and data life-cycle solutions. It has been
using NetApp’s storage for almost three years and has consolidated 40 physical servers onto three VMware
ESX Servers with 20 TB of NetApp storage.
3. A 25-year-old leading medical device company developing and manufacturing less-invasive devices. It has
been using NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware for more than
four years to eliminate 125 physical servers and replace them with 18 VMware ESX hosts with 180 TB of
NetApp storage.
4. A world leader in cosmetics, skin care, fragrance, and personal care products. It has been using NetApp’s
storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware for three years to eliminate 300
physical servers and replace them with 36 VMware ESX hosts with 35 TB of NetApp storage.
5. A not-for-profit provider of government information technology and telecommunication solutions to a
major US city and the surrounding county. It has been using NetApp’s storage solutions for server
virtualization in conjunction with VMware for more than six years. It has more than 300 virtual servers
running on 22 VMware ESX hosts accessing 275 TB of NetApp storage across three data centers.
6. The central IT group of a large US city in the Northeast consisting of 40 employees who support the city
and board of education’s IT needs. It has been using NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in
conjunction with VMware for almost three years to eliminate 20 physical servers and replace them with
four VMware ESX hosts using 13.2 TB of NetApp storage.
7. The community college system of an East Coast state in the US supporting 23 colleges and more than
240,000 students. It has been using NetApp’s storage solutions for almost four years to establish an
automated disaster recovery site that today uses 100 TB of NetApp storage.
Composite Organization Description
The Organization is a $2 billion-plus multinational manufacturer headquartered in North America with operations in
Europe and Asia. Prior to implementing NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization, it had 400 Intel x86
physical servers being used to run business-critical applications such as Oracle, Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint, SQL,
Active Directory, and financials. The server population was a mix of Windows 2008, Windows 2003 and Unix
operating systems. The Organization recently made the strategic decision to implement server virtualization across all
400 servers in the data center and to focus on the benefits virtualization brings to the business-critical applications
mentioned above. In addition, it intends to virtualize the following servers: file, print, small database, domain name
system (DNS), and web servers. The Organization wants to include the benefits of NetApp’s OnCommand
Management Suite, including Virtual Storage Console, the Data ONTAP operating system, and back-up and recovery
of virtual data.
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Prior to implementing NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization the Organization:
Was using a Fibre Channel SAN.
Backed up files to tape using a legacy tape-to-tape system.
Recovered files from tape. In the event of a disaster, it would have tapes shipped in from remote storage facility.
As with the NetApp customers interviewed by Forrester, the sample Organization’s high-level business objectives for
pursuing a NetApp storage for server virtualization strategy were as follows:
Cost reduction: Reduce the time and money spent on managing its servers and associated storage.
Supporting business needs: Create a more flexible and agile storage infrastructure to respond to the business
needs faster.
Extending virtualization to 100% of the data center: Achieve the benefits of extending virtualization to
business-critical applications such as Oracle, Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, and
financials.
Disaster recovery: Improve insufficient disaster recovery plans and minimal coverage in the event of a disaster.
The Organization’s tactical goals and objectives for pursuing a NetApp storage for server virtualization strategy were as
follows:
Consolidation: Reduce the number of servers, reduce its storage footprint, and consolidate to one storage
vendor.
Green IT: Improve the data center, which was reaching its space, power, and cooling capacity.
Higher availability: Focus on higher availability for its critical business applications.
Disaster recovery: Replace its tape-based backup and recovery systems with replication in the next two years.
Faster application deployment: Create a more efficient and faster way to deploy both business-critical and non-
business-critical applications and patches.
Reduce labor costs: Make the storage solution easier to manage with fewer resources needed.
Forrester assumes that the sample Organization had already purchased VMware ESX software prior to investing in
NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization, therefore the cost for VMware is not included in this case study
ROI analysis; however, we are listing the configuration below.
VMware ESX software with:
o vSphere 5.
o vCenter Server 5.
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o vMotion.
o High Availability.
o Distributed Resource Scheduler.
o vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.
NetApp Configuration For The Organization
The Organization contacted NetApp, its primary storage vendor, to purchase the following hardware, software,
services, features, and functionalities (prices in bold):
FAS3240A with 28 TB of raw capacity of SAS drives for primary storage ($164,790) (assumes initial use of 14 TB
after deduplication and 25% annual growth thereafter, reaching 28 TB at end of Year 3). Configuration includes:
o Data ONTAP Essentials:
Includes all efficiency, management, high availability, and multi-tenancy features.
o NetApp complete software bundle, including:
All protocols — iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NFS, and CIFS.
SnapRestore.
SnapMirror.
SnapVault.
FlexClone.
SnapManager Suite.
Virtual Storage Console.
o Three-year SupportEdge Premium — 4-hour on-site support.
FAS3240A with 48 TB of raw capacity SATA drives as replication and backup target ($134,490) (assumes initial
use of 14 TB after deduplication and 25% annual growth thereafter, reaching 28 TB* at end of Year 3). System
includes double the amount of storage for backup repository and development and test scratch spaces.
Configuration includes:
o Data ONTAP Essentials:
Includes all efficiency, management, high availability, and multi-tenancy features.
o NetApp complete software bundle, including:
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All protocols — iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NFS, and CIFS.
SnapRestore.
SnapMirror.
SnapVault.
FlexClone.
SnapManager Suite.
Virtual Storage Console.
o Three-year SupportEdge Premium — 4-hour on-site support.
NetApp University training units (60) — system administration courses ($4,500).
*Note: Without deduplication, the Organization would need to buy an additional 44 TB of raw storage capacity (disk
shelves and drives) for primary and backup storage at an incremental cost (or savings for this analysis) of $70,525.
Assumptions
Prior to implementing NetApp’s storage for virtualization solutions, the Organization had 400 X86 one- and two-
socket servers and had plans to virtualize all of those running the following: Exchange, SQL, and Oracle
applications, file, print, Active Directory, small database, domain name system (DNS), and web servers.
The Organization’s storage needs are expected to grow by 25% annually for the three years of this analysis, which
Forrester sees as a reasonably conservative data growth rate for such a firm.
During the next 18 months, it will replace 400 physical servers with 20 ESX host (virtual) servers (quad core
servers with 512 MB of memory such as HP DL380 or IBM x3650 and quad port Ethernet HBAs) with a
projected ratio of 20 virtual servers per physical server.
The new future backup and disaster recovery plans will incorporate NetApp storage for virtualization solutions.
Backup:
o Before: primary storage backed up to tape with legacy tape-to-tape system.
o After: backup using NetApp FAS3240A as replication and backup target.
Disaster recovery:
o Before: recovered from tape; would have tapes shipped back in the event of a disaster.
o After immediate failover to disaster recovery site using NetApp FAS3240A.
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TEI Framework
Introduction
From the information gathered in the in-depth customer interviews, Forrester has constructed a TEI framework for
those organizations considering implementation of NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction
with VMware’s ESX Server and virtualization platform. The objective of the framework is to identify the cost, benefit,
flexibility, and risk factors that affect the investment decision.
Composite Organization
Based on the interviews with the 12 existing customers that NetApp provided, Forrester constructed a TEI framework,
a composite Organization, and an associated ROI analysis that illustrates the areas affected financially. The composite
Organization that Forrester synthesized from these results is described above.
Framework Assumptions
Table 2 lists the discount rate used in the present value (PV) and net present value (NPV) calculations, the time horizon
used for the financial modeling, and other costs.
Table 2
General Assumptions
General assumptions Value
Discount rate used to compute NPV 10%
Length of analysis Three years
Annual fully loaded cost of a storage administrator $110,000
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Costs
Costs are an important part of the TEI model. Costs, or IT impact, are calculated as a change in costs primarily for IT as
a result of the introduction of the technology to the Organization. Therefore, the introduction of NetApp’s solution
affects IT budgets with the purchase of the solution; it also affects the Organization positively, in terms of the cost
savings and efficiencies created by the investment (see the Benefits And Savings section below).
The impact of cost is accrued in two different areas described below. NetApp solution costs (see pages 9 and 10 for
more details and pricing of hardware, software, services, features, and functionalities); and the Organization’s internal
preparation, planning, and migration costs, which total $326,780.
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Costs For The NetApp Solution: $303,780
Primary storage: FAS3240A with 28 TB of raw capacity of SAS drives for primary storage ($164,790).
Secondary storage: FAS3240A with 48 TB of raw capacity SATA drives as replication and backup target
($134,490).
NetApp University training units (60): system administration courses ($4,500).
NetApp pricing is based on normal and average discounts off NetApp’s list price as of December 2011.
Cost For Internal Preparation And Planning Labor: $8,000
A readiness assessment that looks at costs, benefits, and risks along with detailed planning is essential for a successful
storage consolidation initiative for server virtualization. Based on interviews with current NetApp customers, our
Organization required two full-time equivalent (FTE) (storage administrator and data center manager) to spend
approximately two weeks of their time — before and during implementation — planning, i.e., identifying LUNs, Fibre
Channel loops, and network interfaces; and testing methods (e.g., vMotion) of migrating data from legacy storage to the
virtual storage environment.
Cost For Internal Labor For Data Migration: $15,000
Internal labor associated with the actual data migration from the previous storage system to the NetApp array. Based on
customer interviews, Forrester estimates the work to be equal to eight weeks of full-time effort, or $15,000.
The costs associated with implementing NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization are reflected in Table 3.
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Table 3
The Organization — Total Costs (Non-Risk-Adjusted)
Total costs Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
Primary storage and
associated hardware, $164,790 $0 $0 $0 $164,790
software, services
Secondary storage and
associated hardware, $134,490 $0 $0 $0 $134,490
software, services
NetApp University
$4,500 $0 $0 $0 $4,500
training units
Cost for internal
preparation and planning $8,000 $0 $0 $0 $8,000
labor
Cost for internal labor for
$15,000 $0 $0 $0 $15,000
data migration
Total costs $326,780 $0 $0 $0 $326,780
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Benefits And Savings: Quantified
In addition to the costs associated with the NetApp solution, there were positive IT cost savings and benefits with
NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization. The most recently interviewed five customers are moving toward
virtualizing close to 100% of their data centers, including business-critical applications such as Oracle, Exchange,
SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, SAP, and financials. Another trend is the use of NetApp Virtual Storage Console,
which presents a single pane of glass for end-to-end storage management for VMware infrastructures and improved
administrative efficiency for both VMware and storage administrators.
Interviewed organizations, however, were challenged with segregating the benefits from server virtualization with the
benefits from NetApp’s storage solutions. With Forrester’s assistance, a majority of the organizations agreed that the
quantified benefits focused on: reduced storage hardware and software costs through data deduplication, thin
provisioning technologies, and FlexClone; improvements in the backup and recovery processes; savings in media and
software associated with centralized backup; and storage administration labor savings from the use of Virtual Storage
Console.
Based on an analysis of the interviews with the participating customers, we could quantify the following benefits as a
result of implementing NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization.
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Cost Savings — Reduction In Storage Hardware And Software Costs: $91,525
The interviewed organizations reported using combinations of the three NetApp technologies, listed below, that
reduced their storage costs. For our composite Organization, we assumed that during a six-month period, our storage
administrators became aware of and fully proficient at all three technologies. The interviewed customers using these
technologies reported significant storage cost savings averaging 60% to 70% in their production VMware
environments.
Data deduplication. NetApp provides the benefit of sharing identical data among multiple virtual machines that
reside on disk storage through its data deduplication technology, resulting in the contents of virtual machines
being reduced to a single copy per data store. Several customers reported using NetApp’s deduplication across all
storage protocols (NFS, FC, and iSCSI) supported by VMware and saving 50% in future storage costs. Our
Organization was able to avoid purchasing 44 TB of primary and back-up storage (disk shelves and drives) at an
initial cost avoidance savings of $70,525.
The interviewed customers reported savings of another 15% in future primary storage hardware using the combination
of NetApp thin provisioning and FlexClone features, although it was difficult for these customers to segregate the
savings between the two. Our Organization was able to avoid purchasing another 13 TB of storage hardware (disk
shelves and drives) over three years at a cost of $21,000 ($7,000 savings annually). These features are described below.
Thin provisioning. The seven interviewed customers each described a traditional (pre-virtualization) storage
environment where server administrators would overprovision storage to avoid running out and to avoid the
downtime related to expanding the provisioned storage. NetApp’s thin provisioning feature provides storage on
demand by treating storage as a shared resource that is consumed only when individual virtual machines require
it, rather than reserving physical storage capacity for each individual server workload. This sharing increases the
total utilization rate of storage by eliminating the significant quantity of allocated but unused capacity that is
typical with traditional storage.
Thin provisioning and data deduplication are mutually inclusive features that can reduce the need for more storage,
thereby increasing the overall utilization rate of existing storage. Thin provisioning allows for on demand of shared,
pooled storage capacity, while deduplication removes any redundancy of data stored on the array. Both deduplication
and thin provisioning can be enabled or disabled on a per-volume basis.
FlexClone. With NetApp’s FlexClone feature, an existing storage object (file, LUN, or volume) can be copied and
made available for writeable access. With FlexClone, the copy of the original data set consumes no additional
physical storage space. Clones can increase in size as new changes are written.
Should any of this cloned data become redundant, data deduplication technology will remove the redundancies,
returning the previously used storage back to the pool for reuse later.
Cost Savings — Improvements In Backup And Recovery Processes: $528,000
Several interviewed customers reported improvements in their backup and recovery processes. Our composite
Organization originally considered using its legacy tape-to-tape system to back up its VMware data. However, it soon
realized that as storage requirements continued to grow at 25% annually, it would not be able to complete the tape-to-
tape backup process within an appropriate backup window. The Organization chose to purchase a NetApp FAS3240A
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with 48 TB of raw capacity SATA drives as replication and backup target, and to use NetApp Snapshot technology to
perform local backups. Snapshot will create point-in-time copies of file systems for use as backup in significantly less
time than the previous tape-to-tape system, reducing the future need for media and software associated with tape
backup processes. There were two specific savings categories identified with our Organization’s improvement in its
backup and recovery processes:
1. Media And Software Associated With Centralized Backup: $198,000
After the storage needs of the eliminated servers (file, print, Active Directory, small database, DNS, and web) are
consolidated onto NetApp storage systems and backed-up to the FAS3240A device using Snapshot, there will no longer
be a need for the legacy tape-to-tape systems including equipment, software, and media costs. Instead of having a
backup solution for each of the original 400 (now virtualized) servers, our Organization now has only one storage
system (FAS3240A) from which to perform data backups. In addition, the Organization did not have to grow its legacy
tape-to-tape system and off-site facilities avoiding incremental hardware, software, media, and storage costs. The
composite Organization was able to save $66,000 annually in media (tape), backup tape drives, software costs, and off-
site tape storage.
The total three-year cost savings associated with centralized backup is $198,000.
2. Labor Cost Avoidance Savings For Backup And Recovery Administration: $330,000
Several interviewed organizations highlighted savings in the time it takes for administrators to restore data from
backups when using the NetApp solution. Prior to deploying NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization,
several organizations reported that the time to restore from backup tapes was significant, both in terms of inefficient
use of IT resources and end user downtime. Based on input from the interviewed customers, we estimate that the IT
administrative savings resulting from improving the labor efficiencies of backup and restore will allow our Organization
to avoid hiring one FTE or $110,000 annually, based on a fully burdened storage administrator’s salary of $110,000
annually.
The total three-year cost savings associated with simplification of backup and recovery tasks is $330,000.
Cost Savings — Labor Savings From Use Of NetApp Virtual Storage Console: $165,000
Virtual Storage Console was being used by three of the five recently interviewed customers and on average saved ½ FTE
or $55,000 each year based on a fully burdened storage administrator’s salary of $110,000 annually. The common
benefits that each of the three customers and our Organization experienced include:
Reduced cost and complexity with integrated, end-to-end storage management for VMware infrastructures.
Improved labor efficiency for both their VMware and storage administrators.
Increased availability with near-instant backups, granular restores, and cost-effective DR.
Reduced storage costs with automatic thin provisioning and deduplication of data stores (hardware benefits
included in the thin provisioning and deduplication sections above).
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Enabled a dynamic infrastructure by rapidly provisioning and cloning VMs for new applications, test and
development.
The total three-year labor cost savings associated with the use of NetApp Virtual Storage Console is $165,000.
Incremental Revenue And Profit — Benefits Of Faster Application Deployment: $450,000
Each of the recently interviewed customers reported the ability to quickly clone and move applications into test and
development environments, which enabled them to develop and upgrade applications faster than without NetApp
storage solutions for server virtualization. In addition, one of the most important benefits was the achievement of
revenue and profit acceleration due to the ability to provision and subsequently deploy eCommerce applications at a
faster time to market. This acceleration enables our Organization to gain incremental revenues and profits a month
early for the one customer facing eCommerce application that it deploys each year. This results in average incremental
revenue of $500,000 per application for the first (accelerated) month. Prior to implementing NetApp storage solutions
for server virtualization, it took the Organization at least one month longer to roll out new eCommerce applications. In
this study, Forrester will include a benefit equal to a 30% gross profit margin of the Organization’s incremental revenue
or $150,000 gross profit per year. Readers of this study should assess their organization’s potential revenue
acceleration opportunities, which may vary widely (up or down) from what is portrayed in this study As a result of
using NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization, the Organization achieved $450,000 in incremental profit over
three years.
The total three-year gross profit benefit associated with the ability to provision and subsequently deploy eCommerce
applications at a faster time to market is $450,000 over three years.
The quantified benefits and cost savings associated with implementing NetApp storage solutions for server
virtualization are reflected in Table 4.
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Table 4
The Organization — Total Quantified Benefits And Cost Savings (Non-Risk-Adjusted)
Total benefits and cost savings Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
Reduction in storage hardware and
software costs — using data $70,525 $0 $0 $70,525
deduplication
Reduction in storage hardware and
software costs — using thin $7,000 $7,000 $7,000 $21,000
provisioning and FlexClone
Media and software associated
$66,000 $66,000 $66,000 $198,000
with centralized backup
Labor savings for backup and
$110,000 $110,000 $110,000 $330,000
recovery storage administration
Labor savings using NetApp Virtual
$55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $165,000
Storage Console
Benefits of faster eCommerce
application deployment (gross $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $450,000
profits)
Total benefits and cost savings $458,525 $388,000 $388,000 $1,234,525
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Benefits: Unquantified
The interviewed customers identified the following additional benefits of using NetApp’s storage solutions for server
virtualization, but they were not able to quantify the benefits at the present time:
Each of the recently interviewed customers were proactive in virtualizing business-critical applications such as
Oracle, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, SAP, and financials. Specific benefits cited by the
customers include: faster disaster recovery of business-critical data and the ability to back up and clone business-
critical applications into test and development environments to enable faster application development, upgrades,
and patch testing. For this study we found it difficult to segregate quantified benefits of business-critical
applications vs. from other applications. The total benefits for all applications are quantified in Table 4.
Most of the interviewed customers acknowledged savings in power and cooling costs as a result of server and
storage virtualization. However, savings dollars could not be specifically apportioned to the NetApp storage
solution because of legacy server use of direct-attached storage.
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About two-thirds of the 12 interviewed customers indicated that server and storage virtualization would defer (or
eliminate) eventual expansions of their data centers. Each organization estimated the cost avoidance savings with
a wide range of results ($300,000 to $2.3 million). In addition, it was difficult to apportion the savings to NetApp
storage virtualization solutions, as there were several other variables associated with the customer’s expansion
needs, including: pre-virtualization data center utilization, company growth rates, and its current and future
plans to outsource data center expansion to cloud service providers. Readers of this study should assess their own
data center capacity and include prorated savings associated with NetApp server virtualization solutions.
Risk
Risk-adjusted and non-risk-adjusted ROI are both discussed in this study. The Organization’s individual costs and
benefits are quoted in non-risk-adjusted (best-case) terms and before risk adjustments are made. The assessment of risk
provides a range of possible outcomes based on the risks associated with IT projects in general and specific risks relative
to NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization projects. In our research, we discovered that implementing the
NetApp solutions was a relatively low-risk endeavor if organizations took the time to thoroughly plan the server
virtualization and storage transition process.
TEI uses risk factors to widen the possible outcomes of the costs and benefits (and resulting savings) associated with a
project. As the future cannot be accurately predicted, there is risk inherent in any project. TEI captures risk in the form
of risks-to-benefits and risks-to-costs.
Measurement of risk is a way of incorporating the levels of confidence and uncertainty regarding the cost and benefit
estimates of a given investment. Higher confidence that the cost and benefit estimates will be met implies that the level
of risk is lower and the variation between the risk-adjusted and non-risk-adjusted outcomes is minimized.
Forrester considered the following general risks in this study:
A lack of organizational discipline in creating processes and procedures to best take advantage of the benefits.
A lack of appropriate training for the storage administrators who will be responsible for optimizing the full
benefit potential of storage consolidation and taking advantage of the future simplification of backup and
recovery tasks.
Failures to reduce, transfer, or redeploy IT support headcount made redundant by deploying storage solutions for
server virtualization.
The possibility that the benefits will not be measured and quantified in the future; as a result, no TEI benefit
would be captured and acknowledged.
Internal inertia, conflicting priorities, and turnover, reducing an organization’s ability to achieve the benefits.
Once consolidated, having fewer points of failure in storage environment will put significantly more data at risk.
The following risk associated with NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization was considered in this study:
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The inability of the Organization to find, train, and retain administrators fluent in technologies such as VMware
ESX and NetApp’s Data ONTAP 7G operating system, to take full advantage of the benefits outlined in this
study.
For this study, Forrester applied a 20% risk adjustment — i.e., a reduction of 20% — to all benefits to reflect the risks
listed above. We did not risk-adjust costs, as these were primarily fixed quotes from NetApp.
Table 5 represents the total costs, benefits, and cost savings (risk-adjusted by 20%) of implementing NetApp’s storage
solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware’s ESX Server and virtualization platform.
Table 5
The Organization — Total Benefits And Cost Savings (Risk-Adjusted By 20%)
Present
Total benefits and cost savings Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
value
Reduction in storage hardware and
software costs — using data $56,420 $0 $0 $56,420 $51,291
deduplication
Reduction in storage hardware and
software costs — using thin $5,600 $5,600 $5,600 $16,800 $13,926
provisioning and FlexClone
Media and software associated
$52,800 $52,800 $52,800 $158,400 $131,306
with centralized backup
Labor savings for backup and
$88,000 $88,000 $88,000 $264,000 $218,843
recovery storage administration
Labor savings using NetApp Virtual
$44,000 $44,000 $44,000 $132,000 $109,421
Storage Console
Benefits of faster eCommerce
application deployment (gross $120,000 $120,000 $120,000 $360,000 $298,422
profits)
Total benefits and cost savings $366,820 $310,400 $310,400 $987,620 $823,210
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
The risk-adjusted NPV of benefits is $823,210. If a risk-adjusted NPV and ROI still demonstrates a compelling business
case, it raises confidence that the investment is likely to succeed as the risks that threaten the project have been taken
into consideration and quantified. The risk-adjusted numbers should be taken as “realistic” expectations, as they
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represent the expected value considering risk. Assuming normal success at mitigating risk, the risk-adjusted numbers
should more closely reflect the expected outcome of the investment.
Flexibility
Flexibility, as defined by TEI, represents investing in additional capacity or agility that can be turned into benefit for
some future additional investment. We believe organizations that invest in NetApp’s storage solutions for server
virtualization lay the groundwork to take advantage of migrating to a virtualized disaster recovery environment. For
our Organization, virtualization is the future foundation to enhance and simplify disaster recovery and high availability.
Over a two year period the Organization will be putting business-critical applications on virtual machines, and with
this, disaster recovery becomes a more important issue. The limitations of tape will cause difficulty in a disaster
recovery situation because of tape device data transfer speeds, and the physical distance between a primary data center
and the Organization’s disaster recovery site.
Interviewed customers expressed an interest or the intent to take advantage of the option to use NetApp SnapMirror
replication technology along with VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to reduce the impact of a site disaster on the
business. With SnapMirror technology, a virtual infrastructure can be replicated over the WAN to a remote data center.
The future recovery of virtual machines affected by a site disaster can be completed in minutes instead of hours or days.
In addition, SRM can leverage NetApp’s FlexClone technology to make immediate zero-cost clones of the DR data,
allowing storage administrators to test their disaster recovery policies at any time without interrupting the production
environment or disaster recovery replication. Our Organization also plans to leverage NetApp’s data deduplication
technology in their disaster recovery plans.
Most of the 12 interviewed organizations indicated that their original investment in NetApp’s storage solutions for
server virtualization provided them with the flexibility and agility to take advantage of this disaster recovery “option”
and the potential savings that a virtualized disaster recovery environment can bring to their organizations. At present,
only five of the customers Forrester interviewed were currently taking advantage of VMware’s Site Recovery Manager
and SnapMirror technologies; therefore, this study will not attempt to quantify its benefits. However, we encourage the
reader to learn more about these technologies to determine the potential quantifiable benefits within their
organizations.
The value of flexibility is clearly unique to each organization, and the willingness to measure its value varies from
organization to organization. For the purpose of this analysis, we have assumed that the Organization sees the future
value in being able to reduce future backup storage acquisition costs or achieve longer intervals between storage
capacity upgrades using deduplication. The value of the option (when calculated) is based on the Black-Scholes Option
Pricing formula. (For additional information regarding the flexibility calculation, please see Appendix A.)
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Financial Summary
The financial results calculated in the Costs, Benefits, and Risks sections can be used to determine the risk-adjusted
NPV of benefits, ROI, and payback period for the Organization’s investment in NetApp’s storage solutions for server
virtualization. Table 6 below shows the summarized risk-adjusted values, applying the risk-adjustment method
indicated in the Risk section, which was to apply a 20% risk adjustment — i.e., a reduction of 20% — to all benefits to
reflect the risks listed above. No risk adjustments were made to the costs, as these represented fixed quotes from
NetApp or internal planning costs.
Table 6
The Organization — Cash Flow, ROI, And Payback Period (Risk-Adjusted)
Present
Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
Value
Costs ($326,780) $0 $0 $0 ($326,780) ($326,780)
Benefits $0 $366,820 $310,400 $310,400 $987,620 $823,210
Net benefits
($326,780) $366,820 $310,400 $310,400 $660,841 $496,430
(NPV)
ROI (risk-
152%
adjusted)
Payback period 11 months
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
The three-year, risk-adjusted total NPV of $496,430 represents the net cost savings and benefits attributed to using
NetApp storage solutions for server virtualization when compared with the costs of the Organization’s legacy server and
storage environment (see details above in the Costs, Benefits, Flexibility, and Risks section). In addition, the risk-
adjusted ROI was a very favorable 152%.
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Study Conclusions
As the data in this study indicates, NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization have the potential to provide a
very good return on investment. In addition, the very favorable risk-adjusted ROI of 152%, along with an 11 month
payback period (breakeven point), raises confidence that the investment is likely to succeed, as the risks that may
threaten the project have already been taken into consideration and quantified. In this study, risks have been modeled
conservatively in the hopes of showing worst-case expectations.
A successful, well-planned implementation will allow quantifiable benefits and cost savings to accrue to the
Organization in the following areas totaling $987,620 (risk adjusted):
$56,420 — reduction in storage hardware and software costs — using data deduplication.
$16,800 — reduction in storage hardware and software costs — using thin provisioning and FlexClone.
$158,400 — media and software associated with centralized backup.
$264,000 — labor savings for backup and recovery storage administration.
$132,000 — labor savings using NetApp Virtual Storage Console.
$360,000 — benefits of faster eCommerce application deployment (gross profits).
The interviewed customers identified the following additional benefits of using NetApp’s storage solutions for server
virtualization, but they were not able to quantify the benefits at the present time:
Each of the recently interviewed customers were proactive in virtualizing business-critical applications such as
Oracle, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, SAP, and financials. Specific benefits cited by the
customers include: faster disaster recovery of business-critical data and the ability to back up and clone business-
critical applications into test and development environments to enable faster application development, upgrades
and patch testing. For this study we found it difficult to segregate quantified benefits of business-critical
applications versus from other applications. The total benefits for all applications are quantified in Table 4.
Most of the interviewed customers acknowledged savings in power and cooling costs as a result of server and
storage virtualization. However, savings dollars could not be specifically apportioned to the NetApp storage
solution because of legacy server use of direct-attached storage.
About two-thirds of the 12 interviewed customers indicated that server and storage virtualization would defer (or
eliminate) eventual expansions of their data centers. Each organization estimated the cost avoidance savings with
a wide range of results ($300,000 to $2.3 million). In addition, it was difficult to apportion the savings to NetApp
storage virtualization solutions, as there were several other variables associated with the customer’s expansion
needs including: pre-virtualization data center utilization, company growth rates, and its current and future plans
to outsource data center expansion to cloud service providers. Readers of this study should assess their own data
center capacity and include prorated savings associated with NetApp server virtualization solutions.
Organizations that are likely to achieve similar results have the following characteristics:
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Organizations that have the desire to virtualize nearly 100% of their server and storage environments, including
business-critical applications.
Organizations that want to extend the agility of business critical applications and be able to provision new
applications and new storage very quickly.
Organizations where the costs of pre-virtualization server infrastructure (servers, storage, networks) continue to
increase, sacrificing new investment opportunities.
Organizations that are large enough to have distinctly delineated IT administration roles, such as system, storage,
and network.
Organizations with an interest in adopting a disk-to-disk backup strategy environment either before or after
implementing NetApp’s primary storage solutions.
Organizations with an IT staff with the requisite skills to manage virtual server and storage environments,
including knowledge of VMware’s ESX Server and virtualization platform, as well as NetApp’s Data ONTAP
operating system.
For our Organization, NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware’s ESX Server
and virtualization platform carried a low level of risk, a very positive 152% risk-adjusted ROI, and an 11-month
horizon to recoup the investment.
We make no assumptions regarding the effects of NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction
with VMware’s ESX Server and virtualization platform at other organizations. This study examines the potential impact
attributable to the 12 organizations that participated in our examination and applies the common costs and benefits to a
representative composite Organization. The underlying objective of this document is to provide guidance to technology
decision-makers seeking to identify areas where value can potentially be created based on using NetApp’s storage
solutions for server virtualization.
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Appendix A: Total Economic Impact™ Overview
Total Economic Impact is a methodology developed by Forrester Research that enhances an organization’s technology
decision-making processes and assists vendors in communicating the value proposition of their products and services
to clients. The TEI methodology helps organizations demonstrate, justify, and realize the tangible value of IT initiatives
to both senior management and other key business stakeholders.
The TEI methodology consists of four components to evaluate investment value: benefits, costs, risks, and flexibility.
For the purpose of this analysis, the impact of flexibility was not quantified.
Benefits
Benefits represent the value delivered to the user organization — IT and/or business units — by the proposed product
or project. Often product or project justification exercises focus just on IT cost and cost reduction, leaving little room to
analyze the effect of the technology on the entire organization. The TEI methodology and the resulting financial model
place equal weight on the measure of benefits and the measure of costs, allowing for a full examination of the effect of
the technology on the entire organization. Calculation of benefit estimates involves a clear dialogue with the user
organization to understand the specific value that is created. In addition, Forrester also requires that there be a clear line
of accountability established between the measurement and justification of benefit estimates after the project has been
completed. This ensures that benefit estimates tie back directly to the bottom line.
Costs
Costs represent the investment necessary to capture the value, or benefits, of the proposed project. IT or the business
units may incur costs in the forms of fully burdened labor, subcontractors, or materials. Costs consider all the
investments and expenses necessary to deliver the proposed value. In addition, the cost category within TEI captures
any incremental costs over the existing environment for ongoing costs associated with the solution. All costs must be
tied to the benefits that are created.
Risk
Risk measures the uncertainty of benefit and cost estimates contained within the investment. Uncertainty is measured
in two ways: the likelihood that the cost and benefit estimates will meet the original projections and the likelihood that
the estimates will be measured and tracked over time. TEI applies a probability density function known as “triangular
distribution” to the values entered. At a minimum, three values are calculated to estimate the underlying range around
each cost and benefit.
Flexibility
Within the TEI methodology, direct benefits represent one part of the investment value. While direct benefits can
typically be the primary way to justify a project, Forrester believes that organizations should be able to measure the
strategic value of an investment. Flexibility represents the value that can be obtained for some future additional
investment building on top of the initial investment already made. For instance, an investment in an enterprise wide
upgrade of an office productivity suite can potentially increase standardization (to increase efficiency) and reduce
licensing costs. However, an embedded collaboration feature may translate to greater worker productivity if activated.
The collaboration can only be used with additional investment in training at some future point in time. However,
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having the ability to capture that benefit has a present value that can be estimated. The flexibility component of TEI
captures that value.
Appendix B: Glossary
Discount rate: The interest rate used in cash flow analysis to take into account the time value of money. Although the
Federal Reserve Bank sets a discount rate, organizations often set a discount rate based on their business and
investment environment. Forrester assumes a yearly discount rate of 10% for this analysis. Organizations typically use
discount rates between 8% and 15% based on their current environment. Readers are urged to consult their
organization to determine the most appropriate discount rate to use in their own environment.
Net present value (NPV): The present or current value of (discounted) future net cash flows given an interest rate (the
discount rate). A positive project NPV normally indicates that the investment should be made, unless other projects
have higher NPVs.
Present value (PV): The present or current value of (discounted) cost and benefit estimates given at an interest rate
(the discount rate). The PV of costs and benefits feed into the total net present value of cash flows.
Payback period: The breakeven point for an investment, or the point in time at which net benefits (benefits minus
costs) equal initial investment or cost.
Return on investment (ROI): A measure of a project’s expected return in percentage terms. ROI is calculated by
dividing net benefits (benefits minus costs) by costs.
A Note On Cash Flow Tables
The following is a note on the cash flow tables used in this study (see the Example Table below). The initial investment
column contains costs incurred at “time 0” or at the beginning of Year 1. Those costs are not discounted. All other cash
flows in Years 1 through 3 are discounted using the discount rate shown in Table 2 at the end of the year. Present value
(PV) calculations are calculated for each total cost and benefit estimate. Net present value (NPV) calculations are not
calculated until the summary tables and are the sum of the initial investment and the discounted cash inflows and
outflows in each year.
Table [Example]
Example Table
Ref. Category Calculation Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
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Appendix C: About The Project Manager
Bob Cormier
Vice President, Principal Consultant
Bob is a vice president and principal consultant for Forrester’s TEI service. He is a leading
expert on deriving business value from technology investments, specializing in advising clients
on the TEI framework — services that help organizations understand the overall financial
value of IT strategies and investments. He serves the following client roles:
Technology vendor marketing and sales enablement professionals. Bob works with these
professionals in their efforts to clearly articulate the unique value proposition of their solutions to prospects and
customers using Forrester’s TEI methodology.
Bob has authored numerous TEI case studies for Forrester’s vendor clients. He has also delivered his acclaimed
Justifying Technology Investments (JTI) workshop to more than 800 participants representing 400 organizations.
Bob has more than 25 years of experience in the IT and consulting industries. Prior to joining Forrester, he held senior-
level positions at two leading eBusiness consulting firms, Zefer and Cambridge Technology Partners. Bob has
successfully led company efforts to optimize financial, operational, and resource planning activities, incorporating
leading-edge, professional service automation (PSA) applications and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. He
has also held senior financial management positions at Digital Equipment and Anixter International.
During his career, Bob has consulted with global users and vendors of IT and has been a frequent speaker at
conferences, events, and seminars.
Education
Bob earned an M.B.A. from Bentley University and a B.S. in business from the University of New Hampshire. As an
adjunct professor, he has taught finance and economics courses for more than 10 years at Southern New Hampshire
University and Daniel Webster College.
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