The document summarizes an IDC white paper on converged infrastructure. The key points are:
1) IT infrastructure has become highly complex over time, leading to rising management costs as organizations have had to integrate different systems. Server virtualization has helped contain hardware costs but not management overhead.
2) Converged infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking and management tools into a single system. This simplifies deployment and lowers management costs through automation.
3) Converged systems represent the natural evolution of IT infrastructure as different technologies gradually integrate over multiple technology cycles. Convergence enables more dynamic, efficient "private cloud" environments within organizations.
The document discusses how datacenter networks are evolving from fixed, hierarchical designs optimized for client/server transactions to dynamic networks better suited to cloud computing and big data needs. This requires flattening network topologies, converging server and storage networks onto high-speed Ethernet fabrics, and introducing more intelligence and flexibility at the network edge to support virtualized, application-driven workloads. The network must be able to quickly and reliably handle increased server-to-server traffic within the datacenter in order to enable real-time analytics across massive and diverse data sources.
The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services over the next five years. As businesses look to grow and innovate following the economic downturn, IT will need to balance efficiency gains with flexibility to enable new initiatives. Datacenters of the future will require automation and standardized infrastructure that can adapt to changing workload demands. Many IT organizations currently lack the in-house expertise to implement private clouds and achieve this level of optimization, and may require external assistance to successfully transform their datacenters.
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
Green, Governance and Growth are the three quintessential features for a next generation data center; resulting in lower cost, better industry compliance and contribution to overall business growth.
HCL and EMC have joined hands to provide G3 data centers in post recession era helping CIOs to transform their Data Centers.
Five reasons to make the move to converged infrastructureDellLatam
This document discusses the benefits of adopting a converged infrastructure in the data center. It provides 5 reasons to make the move: 1) Growing disparity between business demands and IT resources. 2) Need for IT to be more agile when provisioning services. 3) Risk of business disintermediating IT by using public clouds. 4) Convergence simplifies management and changes by consolidating infrastructure components. 5) Convergence complements virtualization with automation that eliminates manual processes and waste.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
The document discusses how datacenter networks are evolving from fixed, hierarchical designs optimized for client/server transactions to dynamic networks better suited to cloud computing and big data needs. This requires flattening network topologies, converging server and storage networks onto high-speed Ethernet fabrics, and introducing more intelligence and flexibility at the network edge to support virtualized, application-driven workloads. The network must be able to quickly and reliably handle increased server-to-server traffic within the datacenter in order to enable real-time analytics across massive and diverse data sources.
The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services over the next five years. As businesses look to grow and innovate following the economic downturn, IT will need to balance efficiency gains with flexibility to enable new initiatives. Datacenters of the future will require automation and standardized infrastructure that can adapt to changing workload demands. Many IT organizations currently lack the in-house expertise to implement private clouds and achieve this level of optimization, and may require external assistance to successfully transform their datacenters.
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
White Paper: The Benefits of An Outsourced IT InfrastructureAsaca
This white paper will explore the benets of a hosted IT infrastructure
in the context of several key business topics including disaster recovery,
cost management and scalability .
Green, Governance and Growth are the three quintessential features for a next generation data center; resulting in lower cost, better industry compliance and contribution to overall business growth.
HCL and EMC have joined hands to provide G3 data centers in post recession era helping CIOs to transform their Data Centers.
Five reasons to make the move to converged infrastructureDellLatam
This document discusses the benefits of adopting a converged infrastructure in the data center. It provides 5 reasons to make the move: 1) Growing disparity between business demands and IT resources. 2) Need for IT to be more agile when provisioning services. 3) Risk of business disintermediating IT by using public clouds. 4) Convergence simplifies management and changes by consolidating infrastructure components. 5) Convergence complements virtualization with automation that eliminates manual processes and waste.
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
Exploring a Cloud Based Approach to IT InfrastructureReadWrite
A key part of cloud-based information technology is the ability to deliver benefits to the business and to the overall technology infrastructure for the organization.
This briefing explores the ways to build a cloud-based IT infrastructure that allows for a dynamic environment that supports business needs.
Is Cloud Computing Right For You Wp101305Erik Ginalick
1. The document discusses whether cloud computing is right for businesses. It examines infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which allows businesses to access computing resources like servers and storage over the internet. IaaS provides benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability, and faster deployment of applications and services.
2. While IaaS provides advantages, not every application is suited to the cloud. Businesses must evaluate each application to determine if factors like security, performance, and data sensitivity are compatible with cloud sourcing. They must also choose an IaaS provider that meets their specific needs in terms of services, expertise, and security capabilities.
3. In conclusion, IaaS can simplify IT infrastructure
Juniper Networks' QFabric is an innovative data center fabric that provides a flattened, single-tier network architecture with any-to-any connectivity between devices. This allows for rapid deployment of services by eliminating bottlenecks and simplifying network management. QFabric also improves cost efficiency by reducing complexity, scaling more easily, and lowering power consumption and space needs compared to traditional hierarchical network designs. The document examines the business benefits of QFabric, such as rapid service provisioning, lower costs, increased efficiency, and improved resiliency and security for data center networks.
Enabling Storage Automation for Cloud ComputingNetApp
This paper looks at the requirements of both sets of customers and the challenges that each faces. It then overlays the NetApp strategy as a storage supplier in serving both sets of customers by providing policy-based storage automation and thus enabling IT service automation.
Netmagic solutions, leading IT Managed service provider with Data centers & Cloud Computing in India fulfills your entire IT infrastructure requirements: from collocation services to dedicated hosting, diaster recovery & data Storage solutions.
This document summarizes findings from interviews with over 2,500 CIOs worldwide. The interviews found that successful CIOs blend three pairs of roles: 1) Insightful Visionary and Able Pragmatist, 2) Savvy Value Creator and Relentless Cost Cutter, and 3) Collaborative Business Leader and Inspiring IT Manager. By balancing these roles, CIOs can make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT, and expand their business impact.
HP is expanding its mission critical converged infrastructure with Project Odyssey. The project aims to modernize mission critical computing by bringing Integrity/HP-UX technology to x86 servers, extending HP's strategy. This will allow customers to do mission critical computing on their terms with a variety of operating systems and applications, providing flexibility and choice. Intel supports the project as continuing innovation in Itanium and Xeon will allow HP and Intel to deliver customer-driven mission critical solutions. Industry analysts and users have praised Project Odyssey as a smart move that promises gains for HP customers.
he constant demand for immediate access to data and resources,
reliability and efficiency has created a new ideal of modern,
powerful enterprise IT. Based on market research and technology
observation, this paper explores which criteria modern platforms
have to meet and how leading vendors and service providers
respond in order to deliver these platforms. It is intended as a
guideline for executives who need to make informed purchase
decisions.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
This document discusses how private cloud deployments are addressing growing storage problems through the use of scale-out network attached storage solutions like IBM's SONAS. It outlines key challenges organizations face with exponential data growth and the need for scalability, efficiency, disaster recovery and information governance. Scale-out file-based storage is presented as a way to meet these challenges by providing flexible scalability of performance and capacity independent of each other across multiple servers.
Network connectivity is increasingly viewed as a strategic asset that enables business transformation rather than just an operational necessity. The document discusses how organizations are investing in high-performance network solutions like Ethernet and fiber to drive business benefits and competitive advantage. Survey results show more organizations see network connectivity as strategic and that cloud computing, bandwidth-intensive apps, and business continuity are top drivers of connectivity demand. Case studies show how improved networks can boost operations and customer service.
Big data cloud cloud circle keynote_final laura colvine 8th november 2012IBM
This document discusses how organizations are using big data and cloud computing to gain insights and optimize operations. It provides examples of how forward-thinking organizations are (1) creating scalable and trusted systems to manage large amounts of data, (2) using data to optimize complex decisions and identify trends, and (3) acting on insights by improving outcomes and customer satisfaction. Specific cases highlight collaborating across healthcare systems in the cloud, using weather data to improve wind farm forecasts, reducing surgery hospitalizations through genetic data analysis, and improving transaction processing. The document argues convergence of data sources and cloud-based tools will further increase business optimization.
The document discusses challenges with current performance management processes and the benefits of Prism EPM practice. It outlines common problems such as poor translation of strategies to budgets, lack of consensus, inaccurate information, and resources consumed by cumbersome processes. The Prism approach aims to transform performance management by providing a common planning platform, linked finance and operations, data/process standards, and advanced analytics to gain time, control and confidence.
This document provides resources and guidance for understanding Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management portfolio, including strategic planning, planning and budgeting, financial close, profitability and cost management, and other topics. It includes links to sales presentations, recorded demos, data sheets, and other materials. The document is intended as a starting point or "start here guide" for exploring Oracle's EPM offerings.
The document discusses the concepts of value chains and supply chains. It defines value chains as focusing on the benefits to customers through interdependent processes that generate value and resulting demand. Supply chains focus on meeting customer requirements. The value chain flows in the opposite direction of the supply chain, from the customer perspective back within the firm. For optimal business performance, value and supply chains need to be synchronized to efficiently meet customer needs and maximize profit margins.
PDHPE plays an important role in students' education by teaching them about safe living, healthy choices, and an active lifestyle through fun activities. Students learn personal protection, road and water safety, and survival techniques. PDHPE also teaches students to make good choices regarding food, drugs, and the environment.
1) The document discusses convergence as a continuum to drive superior customer outcomes. It argues that convergence should optimize for both efficiency/agility and performance to meet different organizational needs.
2) Dell believes convergence should span infrastructure, operations, applications, and services. Dell offers solutions focused on both performance and efficiency/agility.
3) Convergence involves trade-offs and may be incomplete. Dell advocates for open, flexible architectures and interoperability between existing management solutions to fully realize the benefits of convergence.
This document discusses the value of smarter datacenter services for IT organizations. As businesses look to innovate and grow beyond cost cutting in the next five years, IT will need to support new initiatives through an efficient and flexible datacenter strategy. While consolidation and cost reduction were priorities during the economic downturn, success now requires streamlining processes, reducing complexity, and improving time to market. Many IT organizations lack the in-house expertise to implement private clouds and face challenges balancing control with innovation. Achieving the right balance will require careful planning, ongoing monitoring, and leveraging extensive experience.
The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services over the next five years. As businesses look to grow and innovate following the economic downturn, IT will need to balance cost reduction with enabling new applications and infrastructure delivery models while supporting existing systems. This will require making datacenters more automated, standardized and flexible to respond to changing workload demands. The document outlines challenges such as the need for improved virtualization management, storage efficiencies and datacenter flexibility to adapt to business needs. It also notes that many IT organizations may lack the in-house expertise to effectively implement new technologies and delivery models for the datacenter.
Exploring a Cloud Based Approach to IT InfrastructureReadWrite
A key part of cloud-based information technology is the ability to deliver benefits to the business and to the overall technology infrastructure for the organization.
This briefing explores the ways to build a cloud-based IT infrastructure that allows for a dynamic environment that supports business needs.
Is Cloud Computing Right For You Wp101305Erik Ginalick
1. The document discusses whether cloud computing is right for businesses. It examines infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which allows businesses to access computing resources like servers and storage over the internet. IaaS provides benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability, and faster deployment of applications and services.
2. While IaaS provides advantages, not every application is suited to the cloud. Businesses must evaluate each application to determine if factors like security, performance, and data sensitivity are compatible with cloud sourcing. They must also choose an IaaS provider that meets their specific needs in terms of services, expertise, and security capabilities.
3. In conclusion, IaaS can simplify IT infrastructure
Juniper Networks' QFabric is an innovative data center fabric that provides a flattened, single-tier network architecture with any-to-any connectivity between devices. This allows for rapid deployment of services by eliminating bottlenecks and simplifying network management. QFabric also improves cost efficiency by reducing complexity, scaling more easily, and lowering power consumption and space needs compared to traditional hierarchical network designs. The document examines the business benefits of QFabric, such as rapid service provisioning, lower costs, increased efficiency, and improved resiliency and security for data center networks.
Enabling Storage Automation for Cloud ComputingNetApp
This paper looks at the requirements of both sets of customers and the challenges that each faces. It then overlays the NetApp strategy as a storage supplier in serving both sets of customers by providing policy-based storage automation and thus enabling IT service automation.
Netmagic solutions, leading IT Managed service provider with Data centers & Cloud Computing in India fulfills your entire IT infrastructure requirements: from collocation services to dedicated hosting, diaster recovery & data Storage solutions.
This document summarizes findings from interviews with over 2,500 CIOs worldwide. The interviews found that successful CIOs blend three pairs of roles: 1) Insightful Visionary and Able Pragmatist, 2) Savvy Value Creator and Relentless Cost Cutter, and 3) Collaborative Business Leader and Inspiring IT Manager. By balancing these roles, CIOs can make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT, and expand their business impact.
HP is expanding its mission critical converged infrastructure with Project Odyssey. The project aims to modernize mission critical computing by bringing Integrity/HP-UX technology to x86 servers, extending HP's strategy. This will allow customers to do mission critical computing on their terms with a variety of operating systems and applications, providing flexibility and choice. Intel supports the project as continuing innovation in Itanium and Xeon will allow HP and Intel to deliver customer-driven mission critical solutions. Industry analysts and users have praised Project Odyssey as a smart move that promises gains for HP customers.
he constant demand for immediate access to data and resources,
reliability and efficiency has created a new ideal of modern,
powerful enterprise IT. Based on market research and technology
observation, this paper explores which criteria modern platforms
have to meet and how leading vendors and service providers
respond in order to deliver these platforms. It is intended as a
guideline for executives who need to make informed purchase
decisions.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
This document discusses how private cloud deployments are addressing growing storage problems through the use of scale-out network attached storage solutions like IBM's SONAS. It outlines key challenges organizations face with exponential data growth and the need for scalability, efficiency, disaster recovery and information governance. Scale-out file-based storage is presented as a way to meet these challenges by providing flexible scalability of performance and capacity independent of each other across multiple servers.
Network connectivity is increasingly viewed as a strategic asset that enables business transformation rather than just an operational necessity. The document discusses how organizations are investing in high-performance network solutions like Ethernet and fiber to drive business benefits and competitive advantage. Survey results show more organizations see network connectivity as strategic and that cloud computing, bandwidth-intensive apps, and business continuity are top drivers of connectivity demand. Case studies show how improved networks can boost operations and customer service.
Big data cloud cloud circle keynote_final laura colvine 8th november 2012IBM
This document discusses how organizations are using big data and cloud computing to gain insights and optimize operations. It provides examples of how forward-thinking organizations are (1) creating scalable and trusted systems to manage large amounts of data, (2) using data to optimize complex decisions and identify trends, and (3) acting on insights by improving outcomes and customer satisfaction. Specific cases highlight collaborating across healthcare systems in the cloud, using weather data to improve wind farm forecasts, reducing surgery hospitalizations through genetic data analysis, and improving transaction processing. The document argues convergence of data sources and cloud-based tools will further increase business optimization.
The document discusses challenges with current performance management processes and the benefits of Prism EPM practice. It outlines common problems such as poor translation of strategies to budgets, lack of consensus, inaccurate information, and resources consumed by cumbersome processes. The Prism approach aims to transform performance management by providing a common planning platform, linked finance and operations, data/process standards, and advanced analytics to gain time, control and confidence.
This document provides resources and guidance for understanding Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management portfolio, including strategic planning, planning and budgeting, financial close, profitability and cost management, and other topics. It includes links to sales presentations, recorded demos, data sheets, and other materials. The document is intended as a starting point or "start here guide" for exploring Oracle's EPM offerings.
The document discusses the concepts of value chains and supply chains. It defines value chains as focusing on the benefits to customers through interdependent processes that generate value and resulting demand. Supply chains focus on meeting customer requirements. The value chain flows in the opposite direction of the supply chain, from the customer perspective back within the firm. For optimal business performance, value and supply chains need to be synchronized to efficiently meet customer needs and maximize profit margins.
PDHPE plays an important role in students' education by teaching them about safe living, healthy choices, and an active lifestyle through fun activities. Students learn personal protection, road and water safety, and survival techniques. PDHPE also teaches students to make good choices regarding food, drugs, and the environment.
1) The document discusses convergence as a continuum to drive superior customer outcomes. It argues that convergence should optimize for both efficiency/agility and performance to meet different organizational needs.
2) Dell believes convergence should span infrastructure, operations, applications, and services. Dell offers solutions focused on both performance and efficiency/agility.
3) Convergence involves trade-offs and may be incomplete. Dell advocates for open, flexible architectures and interoperability between existing management solutions to fully realize the benefits of convergence.
This document discusses the value of smarter datacenter services for IT organizations. As businesses look to innovate and grow beyond cost cutting in the next five years, IT will need to support new initiatives through an efficient and flexible datacenter strategy. While consolidation and cost reduction were priorities during the economic downturn, success now requires streamlining processes, reducing complexity, and improving time to market. Many IT organizations lack the in-house expertise to implement private clouds and face challenges balancing control with innovation. Achieving the right balance will require careful planning, ongoing monitoring, and leveraging extensive experience.
The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services over the next five years. As businesses look to grow and innovate following the economic downturn, IT will need to balance cost reduction with enabling new applications and infrastructure delivery models while supporting existing systems. This will require making datacenters more automated, standardized and flexible to respond to changing workload demands. The document outlines challenges such as the need for improved virtualization management, storage efficiencies and datacenter flexibility to adapt to business needs. It also notes that many IT organizations may lack the in-house expertise to effectively implement new technologies and delivery models for the datacenter.
The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services in the coming years. It notes that as businesses look to grow, IT will need to balance integrating new applications and infrastructure models while supporting existing systems. This will require increasing efficiency on both the IT and facilities sides through streamlining processes, reducing complexity, and improving time to market. The document outlines strategies for improving infrastructure resource efficiencies, storage efficiencies, and increasing datacenter flexibility to adapt to changing demand. It also notes that many IT organizations may require external expertise to implement new technologies and strategies as they work to enable business transformation.
This whitepaper discusses how cloud adoption provides benefits beyond just financial return on investment (ROI). Moving to the cloud allows IT teams to focus less on managing infrastructure and more on innovation and strategic initiatives that can improve business operations. The cloud enables quicker application delivery and increased employee productivity, leading to greater business agility and competitive advantage over time. While cost savings are important, cloud computing allows for continuous business transformation through new ideas implemented by a more creative IT organization.
Idc White Paper For Ibm On Virtualization Srvcslambertt
The document discusses IBM's virtualization services. It begins by providing background on how virtualization can help enterprises reduce IT costs through server consolidation and improved hardware utilization. It then discusses IBM's approach to virtualization services, which includes planning, implementation, ongoing support, and consulting services to help clients develop virtualization strategies and optimize their IT environments. IBM views virtualization as part of an overall IT strategy and offers a portfolio of services addressing various aspects of virtualization.
Virtualization has become mainstream, with over 50% of server workloads now running on virtual machines. This has driven demand for servers with larger memory capacities that can support higher VM densities. While virtualization helped address issues like server sprawl and underutilization, the need for more memory per VM is now a key limitation for increasing consolidation. New servers with massive memory capacity are aiming to maximize the number of VMs per physical server and lower costs per application.
This IDC white paper highlights how IBM eX5 systems with MAX5 memory technology play a significant role in increasing the value of memory dense servers.
Cloud computing offers organizations scalability, flexibility, and speed while reducing costs. However, issues around security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance need to be addressed. While some organizations are piloting cloud computing services, widespread adoption is still 1-2 years away as only 10-30% of IT budgets are expected to be used for cloud services in the near future. Overall cloud computing has the potential to significantly change how IT services are delivered and used by businesses.
The document discusses cloud computing and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) models. It defines cloud computing as the real-time delivery and consumption of IT infrastructure, networking, and application services over the internet or private networks. IaaS leverages virtualization and automation to create scalable pools of hardware, software, and network resources that can be dynamically provisioned on demand. The document examines how enterprises can use IaaS to access a fully managed IT infrastructure from third-party providers in a flexible and cost-effective manner without large upfront capital expenditures.
Is Cloud Computing Right For You Wp101305Erik Ginalick
1. The document discusses whether cloud computing is right for businesses. It examines infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which allows businesses to access computing resources like servers and storage over the internet. IaaS provides benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability, and faster deployment of applications and services.
2. While IaaS provides advantages, not every application is suited to the cloud. Businesses must evaluate each application to determine if factors like security, performance, and data sensitivity are compatible with cloud sourcing. They must also choose an IaaS provider that meets their specific needs in terms of services, expertise, and security.
3. In conclusion, IaaS can simplify IT infrastructure for
This document discusses a study by IDC on the business value of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure systems. The study found that Vblock customers achieved significant benefits including improved IT agility, increased innovation and business enablement, higher application development and service delivery, reduced costs, and improved customer experience. On average, customers saw a 518% return on investment and payback period of 7.5 months. Key benefits included faster provisioning, increased staff productivity, reduced downtime, and accelerated application development cycles. [/SUMMARY]
White Paper IDC | The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Conver...Melissa Luongo
The Business Value of VCE Vblock Systems: Leveraging Convergence to Drive Business Agility
In the past decade, information technology (IT) evolved from an enabler of back-office business processes to the very foundation of a modern business. In the increasingly digital and mobile world, the datacenter is often the first and most frequent point of contact with customers. The ability to innovate quickly lies at the heart of today’s changing business models. Businesses expect their IT investments to accelerate their pace of innovation, provide flexibility to meet new demands, and continually reduce the costs of operations.
Converged infrastructure is essential for many companies to ensure that their datacenter infrastructures can meet today’s challenges. The business rationale for deploying converged infrastructure goes far beyond traditional IT feeds and speeds. Customers using converged solutions like VCE’s Vblock Systems (Vblock) realize lower costs, greater levels of utilization, and reduced downtime. VCE customers in this study recognized business benefits such as improved organizational agility, faster application development, increased innovation, and improved employee productivity.
IDC interviewed 16 VCE Vblock Systems customers to understand and quantify the benefits delivered by their Vblock converged infrastructure deployments. Vblock Systems are built by VCE using compute, network, and storage technologies and virtualization software from Cisco, EMC, and VMware.
IDC found that by using Vblock Systems, these organizations recorded improved business outcomes and that these improvements are increasingly driving IT investment decisions.
All VCE customers interviewed for this study generated substantial business value by consolidating their IT infrastructures with Vblock. IDC calculates that these VCE customers will generate five-year discounted benefits worth an average of $384,202 per 100 users by using Vblock, which will result in an average return on investment (ROI) of 518% and a payback period of 7.5 months.
This document discusses a study by IDC on the business value of VCE Vblock converged infrastructure systems. The study found that Vblock customers achieved significant benefits including improved IT agility, increased innovation and business enablement, higher application development and service delivery, reduced costs, and improved customer experience. On average, customers saw a 518% return on investment and payback period of 7.5 months. Key benefits included faster provisioning, improved productivity, and more time spent on strategic initiatives rather than infrastructure maintenance. [/SUMMARY]
This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
This white paper discusses how cloud computing can drive value for enterprises by lowering IT costs and enabling innovation. Some key points:
1) Cloud computing provides on-demand, scalable access to computing resources and enables a pay-per-use model that can significantly lower both capital and operating costs for IT compared to maintaining physical infrastructure.
2) Standardizing applications and infrastructure on cloud platforms further drives down costs through improved efficiency and reduced complexity.
3) In addition to cost savings, cloud also allows organizations to innovate faster, access new markets more easily, and optimize existing IT investments through an elastic, globally available environment.
Cloud computing provides several key business benefits:
1) It lowers IT costs by increasing infrastructure utilization and automation.
2) It enables access to IT resources and applications on a flexible, "pay-as-you-go" basis.
3) It simplifies IT for end users by removing complexity and allowing access from any device.
Cloud adoption strategies vary depending on a company's size and industry dynamics, but cloud pilots can help organizations understand how cloud may address their business needs in a low-risk way.
The document discusses the benefits of converged systems over traditional siloed IT infrastructures. It outlines key challenges with complexity in today's IT environments and how converged systems provide advantages like reduced costs, faster deployment times, and improved performance and availability. The summary highlights that Hitachi Data Systems provides converged infrastructure solutions called Unified Compute Platforms that integrate servers, storage, networking and software to optimize support for mission-critical applications.
The document discusses how cloud computing provides companies flexibility and efficiency during tough economic times. It allows companies to rapidly scale computing resources up or down as needed without large capital investments. This enables companies to innovate faster, bring products to market quicker, and improve operational efficiency. Cloud computing provides automated provisioning of services, virtualized infrastructure, security, and standardized offerings to help companies work smarter and be more responsive to changing business needs.
This document discusses defining a blueprint for a smarter data center through flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and active monitoring and management. It outlines four ways to achieve this: 1) extending the life of existing infrastructure, 2) rationalizing infrastructure across the company through consolidation, 3) implementing flexible modular design, and 4) providing integrated IT and data center operations management. Analytics-based services can help assess infrastructure needs, model outcomes, automate processes, and manage operations to unlock greater value from data center investments. Case studies demonstrate benefits like reduced costs, deferred capital expenditures, and improved efficiency.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process MiningLucaBarbaro3
Presentation of the paper "Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process Mining" given during the CAiSE 2024 Conference in Cyprus on June 7, 2024.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
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Infrastructure Convergence: The Integration of
Technology to Lower Cost and Improve Business
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IDC OPINION
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IDC believes that we are entering into a new technology business cycle where
converged IT infrastructure will become an increasingly attractive option over
standalone solutions.
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After more than a decade of physical server sprawl, massive growth in storage
terabytes, and the emergence of hierarchical network architectures, IT complexity has
reached an all-time high. Today, IT organizations are forced to act as their own
systems integrators. The ongoing management of this sprawling infrastructure has led
to spiraling costs, and the time required for testing and tuning during deployment has
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led to a drain on available staff resources and ability to quickly realize business value.
Customers have already begun the work to reinvent their IT infrastructure and are quickly
moving to more efficient and business-ready platforms. Server virtualization is now
mainstream, while deduplication technologies and tiered storage are helping to lower the
burden on information systems. As a result, many are rethinking their plans for 10GbE
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adoption and virtual I/O technologies as network performance becomes a critical gating
factor for a server and storage rearchitecture. In addition, aging datacenter facilities have
forced IT organizations to introduce supplemental power and cooling equipment and
deploy energy management strategies. While these individual technologies are helping
to lower up-front capital costs, they have not yet helped to lower management overhead,
and their introduction requires significant integration investments.
With the sprawl in IT systems, many customers find themselves with a complex and
inflexible set of infrastructure that limits their ability to respond to changes in the
business. For many, the goal of offering "IT as a service" remains elusive, and their
legacy infrastructure is an increasingly larger part of their IT maintenance budget that
constrains the ability of IT departments to launch new projects and innovate.
IDC believes that the next technology cycle will have a converged architecture as a
central design feature and that efficiency, high performance, and the ability to quickly
rightsize the infrastructure relative to application and business demands will be
critical. The movement to integrated or converged technology is not new. We have
seen this trend in the server market twice in the past 30 years, and our market data
indicates that we are at the very beginning of the next phase in IT. This next business
cycle is "service centric" and has a very clear set of objectives: simplify and reduce
complexity, maximize resource utilization, and shorten time to market to more quickly
realize business value.