Are Minneapolis Colocation Prices Impacted by Density? (SlideShare)SP Home Run Inc.
http://DataCenterLeadGen.com Are Minneapolis Colocation Prices Impacted by Density? (SlideShare). High-density data centers are growing in popularity due to many factors. Find out how Minneapolis colocation centers are responding to this trend. Copyright (C) SP Home Run Inc. All worldwide rights reserved.
Vijay Mohire is a computer engineer and architect with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He has designed solutions involving big data, PHP, MongoDB, chat apps, hybrid mobile apps for Windows and Android, and CRM projects. Mohire has also worked with telecommunications clients on projects in North America. He offers services related to big data, cloud computing, and mobile technologies along with assistance in procuring and implementing commercial off-the-shelf products for these areas. Mohire is seeking new business and sales opportunities in North America.
BMO Financial Group consolidated most critical IT operations into two large data centers and several smaller sites worldwide. They faced challenges with power capacity limits at their main data center built in 1980. To address this, they formed a team to optimize hardware utilization through virtualization and upgrades. This reduced electrical consumption by 276kW, meeting their 3-year goal of an 18% reduction, while absorbing a 20% annual business growth. Key lessons included the significant influence of IT discipline on greening data centers, and the need for strong partnerships between facilities and IT teams.
HP has introduced a new way for clients to cut capital investment requirements for the design and build of data centers in half while significantly decreasing their carbon footprint.
Indiana University consolidated several hundred servers into twenty using virtualization, saving costs and energy. They offered this private cloud to university departments, improving disaster recovery, scalability, and savings. Cost savings were up to 87%, energy savings 80-85%, and space savings 90%. The university was able to focus on teaching and research rather than server management.
This 2-day course is designed to prepare students to take the CompTIA Strata Green IT foundation certificate. It is suitable for those who will be involved in planning or implementing Green IT infrastructure, such as IT or operations managers or supervisors.
Data Center Consolidation and Optimization By Magnus Manders, CTO of Infrastr...Capgemini
This document discusses strategies for relocating, consolidating, and optimizing data centers to reduce risks and improve business value. It outlines key driving forces like cost reductions, legislation, and energy management that are pushing organizations to transform their data center operations. The document emphasizes that each project will have different challenges and objectives, so guidance principles are needed around standardization. It also stresses the importance of planning to prevent failures, having the right team composition, and defining key performance indicators to measure success and manage stakeholders.
This document discusses data center consolidation as a key strategy for IT cost cutting. It notes that 69% of IT costs come from operations and maintenance of existing systems, and that consolidating data centers can reduce these costs by decreasing the number of data centers, servers, software licenses, and power usage. The document recommends migrating to virtualized hardware and cloud platforms as part of consolidation efforts to further reduce costs, while also implementing strategic disaster recovery functionality. It emphasizes planning application migrations carefully to avoid issues that could extend timelines or budgets.
Are Minneapolis Colocation Prices Impacted by Density? (SlideShare)SP Home Run Inc.
http://DataCenterLeadGen.com Are Minneapolis Colocation Prices Impacted by Density? (SlideShare). High-density data centers are growing in popularity due to many factors. Find out how Minneapolis colocation centers are responding to this trend. Copyright (C) SP Home Run Inc. All worldwide rights reserved.
Vijay Mohire is a computer engineer and architect with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He has designed solutions involving big data, PHP, MongoDB, chat apps, hybrid mobile apps for Windows and Android, and CRM projects. Mohire has also worked with telecommunications clients on projects in North America. He offers services related to big data, cloud computing, and mobile technologies along with assistance in procuring and implementing commercial off-the-shelf products for these areas. Mohire is seeking new business and sales opportunities in North America.
BMO Financial Group consolidated most critical IT operations into two large data centers and several smaller sites worldwide. They faced challenges with power capacity limits at their main data center built in 1980. To address this, they formed a team to optimize hardware utilization through virtualization and upgrades. This reduced electrical consumption by 276kW, meeting their 3-year goal of an 18% reduction, while absorbing a 20% annual business growth. Key lessons included the significant influence of IT discipline on greening data centers, and the need for strong partnerships between facilities and IT teams.
HP has introduced a new way for clients to cut capital investment requirements for the design and build of data centers in half while significantly decreasing their carbon footprint.
Indiana University consolidated several hundred servers into twenty using virtualization, saving costs and energy. They offered this private cloud to university departments, improving disaster recovery, scalability, and savings. Cost savings were up to 87%, energy savings 80-85%, and space savings 90%. The university was able to focus on teaching and research rather than server management.
This 2-day course is designed to prepare students to take the CompTIA Strata Green IT foundation certificate. It is suitable for those who will be involved in planning or implementing Green IT infrastructure, such as IT or operations managers or supervisors.
Data Center Consolidation and Optimization By Magnus Manders, CTO of Infrastr...Capgemini
This document discusses strategies for relocating, consolidating, and optimizing data centers to reduce risks and improve business value. It outlines key driving forces like cost reductions, legislation, and energy management that are pushing organizations to transform their data center operations. The document emphasizes that each project will have different challenges and objectives, so guidance principles are needed around standardization. It also stresses the importance of planning to prevent failures, having the right team composition, and defining key performance indicators to measure success and manage stakeholders.
This document discusses data center consolidation as a key strategy for IT cost cutting. It notes that 69% of IT costs come from operations and maintenance of existing systems, and that consolidating data centers can reduce these costs by decreasing the number of data centers, servers, software licenses, and power usage. The document recommends migrating to virtualized hardware and cloud platforms as part of consolidation efforts to further reduce costs, while also implementing strategic disaster recovery functionality. It emphasizes planning application migrations carefully to avoid issues that could extend timelines or budgets.
One word that you often see associated with any data center is its “tier,” or its level of service. Virtually every data center has a tier ranking of I, II, III, or IV, and this ranking serves as a symbol for everything it has to offer: its physical infrastructure, its cooling, power infrastructure, redundancy levels, and promised uptime.
This presentation takes a look at each of the 4 data center tiers, examining the key components for each tier, as well the total expected uptime level for each tier. If you are in the process of evaluating data centers, this is no doubt a term you will come across in your search, so we hope this presentation helps provide some solid background in to how you can better choose a data center for your specific needs.
For more insights into the data center world, and to learn more about Data Cave, check out our website at www.thedatacave.com.
Moving Your Data Center: Keys to planning a successful data center migrationData Cave
The document discusses key considerations for planning a successful data center migration. It identifies three main areas to focus on: 1) Deciding whether to replicate the existing infrastructure or create something new, noting the tradeoffs of each approach. 2) Carefully planning the logistics of moving equipment and finding experienced help. 3) Anticipating challenges and having contingency plans, and getting buy-in from management and other stakeholders. Thorough preparation from multiple angles can help ensure a smoother transition.
How to Utilize Cloud in Your Corporate IT StrategyVISIHOSTING
This document discusses how companies can utilize cloud computing in their corporate IT strategies. It provides biographies of the authors and executives from Redpath Consulting Group, which helps customers develop cloud computing strategies. The document outlines the benefits of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing models, including lower costs, rapid provisioning, and pay-as-you-go pricing. It also provides an overview of private, public and hybrid cloud deployment models and the essential characteristics of cloud computing.
This document outlines 10 key criteria to analyze when planning a new data center: 1) required availability and uptime levels, 2) anticipated initial and growth loads, 3) location impacts, 4) design and construction consulting and vendor selection, 5) lifecycle cost modeling, 6) evaluating green certifications, 7) modular scalability, 8) staffing capabilities, 9) budget analysis of capital vs operating costs, and 10) regulatory compliance requirements. Analyzing these 10 criteria thoroughly from the start will help avoid oversizing, overdesigning, and ensure all costs and needs are properly planned for.
This document discusses how data center requirements have changed and are driving transformation, including the need for flexibility, agility, high performance, security, and simplified management. It introduces Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) as a solution that addresses these new requirements through a stateless, policy-based approach using service profiles. Service profiles abstract server identity and configuration from physical hardware, allowing for improved hardware utilization, workload mobility between servers, and dynamic provisioning to quickly align resources with changing business needs.
The Role of Cloud Computing In Your Data Center StrategyVISIHOSTING
The document discusses cloud computing trends and options for moving an organization's data center to the cloud. It provides an overview of public versus private cloud, outlines factors to consider when evaluating a cloud migration, and presents a maturity model for data center services from basic colocation to fully outsourced cloud solutions. The key benefits of public cloud include scalability, pay-per-use pricing, and reduced costs, while private cloud offers dedicated resources and more control but requires capital investment and management overhead.
Data Center 101: What to Look for in a Colocation ProviderHostway|HOSTING
When you’re evaluating possible colocation providers, the sheer amount of information can be overwhelming. However, there are distinct characteristics of the physical building, security, network and more that you must consider.
This document discusses the conflicts between Sunnis and Shias in the Middle East, including the Iran-Iraq war from 1980-1988, the Gulf War in 1990-1991, and the Iraq War beginning in 2003. It provides background on the two main sects of Islam, their differing beliefs and demographic distributions in countries like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. It also includes biographical information on Saddam Hussein and details events and consequences of the three major military conflicts involving Iraq over the last few decades.
10 Steps to Data Center Infrastructure Management SuccessRaritan
The document outlines 10 steps to successful data center infrastructure management (DCIM) implementation. It discusses choosing a DCIM solution to address key problems, understanding current processes, focusing on features that solve problems rather than all features, gaining cross-functional alignment, starting small and expanding over time, ensuring integration with existing systems, taking advantage of vendor expertise, training staff, and partnering with an experienced DCIM vendor. It also provides case studies of DCIM implementations at several large companies that improved operational efficiency.
This document provides an overview of the Moodle learning management system (LMS) presented by Gavin Henrick of Enovation Solutions. It discusses key Moodle features such as content types, administration, reporting, assessment, collaboration and customization. Moodle is highlighted as a scalable, secure and customizable platform that supports e-learning standards and integrates with third-party systems. The presentation concludes with Moodle usage statistics and a discussion of why Moodle is a suitable LMS choice.
The document discusses moving a data center to the cloud. It outlines an agenda for analyzing such a transition, including considering cloud security, understanding the current environment, and comparing costs and contracts. The analysis section lists many line items to compare between the current data center and cloud providers, such as infrastructure, licensing costs, disaster recovery, and support. Conducting a thorough analysis of needs, strengths, and weaknesses is important to understand if cloud computing is suitable.
Cloud computing stores data on the internet and relies on third party providers to manage updates and maintenance, while a data center stores data within an organization's local network and is managed by an in-house IT department. Both can store data but only a data center stores physical servers and equipment. A data center gives organizations full control over their data and equipment but has higher costs and less scalability, while cloud computing has lower startup costs, more scalability, and is managed by third parties.
Three Best Practices for Optimizing your IT Infrastructure
In a survey by the Uptime Institute, 42% of enterprise data center managers reported that they would run out of power capacity within 24 months. This statistic isn't surprising when you consider that today's IT hardware requires more power-distribution air conditioning and UPS capacity than in the past.
What steps is your data center taking to mitigate the detrimental disruptions of availability, reliability and uptime caused by a loss of capacity?
To view the recorded webinar event, please visit http://www.42u.com/it-optimization-webinar.htm
Will 2016 be the year that cloud kills the data center? Will the race to the edge continue? Following are my predictions for the trends I expect to dominate the data center industry in 2016.
Eduserv provides cloud and IT services to public sector and nonprofit organizations. They operate a secure, UK-based data center and offer private, community, and secure cloud options as well as professional services. Their services help customers reduce costs, improve security and flexibility, and focus on their missions rather than IT infrastructure. They take a long-term partnership approach to help customers adopt cloud technologies and migrate applications in a pragmatic manner.
Designed to help you leverage dramatic new improvements in technology, there services present a range of offerings that give you the potential to
Cut costs
Get more out of your existing infrastructure
Drive productivity in IT operations
Assert competitive advantage
The document summarizes the findings of a proof of concept (POC) that tested adding compute resources to storage arrays and solutions in order to create more efficient and cost-effective storage. Key findings include:
1) Adding CPU cores and RAM to storage controllers and solutions through virtualization can reduce storage consumption by up to two-thirds and improve performance and resiliency.
2) Compute-intensive solutions that leverage data deduplication and compression in software delivered significant space savings and faster rebuild times compared to hardware-based solutions.
3) The POC validated that adding compute to storage follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider's business model of self-service and delivers efficient primary
Transformation through Innovation: A Strategy for Service Provider SuccessCisco Service Provider
Service providers can gain $1.7 trillion over 10 years by capitalizing on the Internet of Everything through new experiences, business models, and network architecture. Cisco offers a strategy to help service providers transform through virtualized and programmable networks that increase revenue, decrease costs, and improve agility. Cisco has worked with many service providers globally to help them innovate, reduce expenses, and launch new services faster.
Large Financial Services Company Reduces Deployment Time by 75%AppViewX
As a leading global banking and financial services company, multiple teams requesting changes to applications or provisioning of services for new applications across multiple
locations and using different requisition methods posed a potential threat to compliance.
Varying levels of knowledge about the load balancer infrastructure among different teams slowed down the process of implementing configurations, With application teams located in different places and across various silos, requests
had to be coordinated and consolidated using different tools, leading to delays and errors, Application deployments were done manually by individual teams that had to keep
track of the ticket and change windows
One word that you often see associated with any data center is its “tier,” or its level of service. Virtually every data center has a tier ranking of I, II, III, or IV, and this ranking serves as a symbol for everything it has to offer: its physical infrastructure, its cooling, power infrastructure, redundancy levels, and promised uptime.
This presentation takes a look at each of the 4 data center tiers, examining the key components for each tier, as well the total expected uptime level for each tier. If you are in the process of evaluating data centers, this is no doubt a term you will come across in your search, so we hope this presentation helps provide some solid background in to how you can better choose a data center for your specific needs.
For more insights into the data center world, and to learn more about Data Cave, check out our website at www.thedatacave.com.
Moving Your Data Center: Keys to planning a successful data center migrationData Cave
The document discusses key considerations for planning a successful data center migration. It identifies three main areas to focus on: 1) Deciding whether to replicate the existing infrastructure or create something new, noting the tradeoffs of each approach. 2) Carefully planning the logistics of moving equipment and finding experienced help. 3) Anticipating challenges and having contingency plans, and getting buy-in from management and other stakeholders. Thorough preparation from multiple angles can help ensure a smoother transition.
How to Utilize Cloud in Your Corporate IT StrategyVISIHOSTING
This document discusses how companies can utilize cloud computing in their corporate IT strategies. It provides biographies of the authors and executives from Redpath Consulting Group, which helps customers develop cloud computing strategies. The document outlines the benefits of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing models, including lower costs, rapid provisioning, and pay-as-you-go pricing. It also provides an overview of private, public and hybrid cloud deployment models and the essential characteristics of cloud computing.
This document outlines 10 key criteria to analyze when planning a new data center: 1) required availability and uptime levels, 2) anticipated initial and growth loads, 3) location impacts, 4) design and construction consulting and vendor selection, 5) lifecycle cost modeling, 6) evaluating green certifications, 7) modular scalability, 8) staffing capabilities, 9) budget analysis of capital vs operating costs, and 10) regulatory compliance requirements. Analyzing these 10 criteria thoroughly from the start will help avoid oversizing, overdesigning, and ensure all costs and needs are properly planned for.
This document discusses how data center requirements have changed and are driving transformation, including the need for flexibility, agility, high performance, security, and simplified management. It introduces Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) as a solution that addresses these new requirements through a stateless, policy-based approach using service profiles. Service profiles abstract server identity and configuration from physical hardware, allowing for improved hardware utilization, workload mobility between servers, and dynamic provisioning to quickly align resources with changing business needs.
The Role of Cloud Computing In Your Data Center StrategyVISIHOSTING
The document discusses cloud computing trends and options for moving an organization's data center to the cloud. It provides an overview of public versus private cloud, outlines factors to consider when evaluating a cloud migration, and presents a maturity model for data center services from basic colocation to fully outsourced cloud solutions. The key benefits of public cloud include scalability, pay-per-use pricing, and reduced costs, while private cloud offers dedicated resources and more control but requires capital investment and management overhead.
Data Center 101: What to Look for in a Colocation ProviderHostway|HOSTING
When you’re evaluating possible colocation providers, the sheer amount of information can be overwhelming. However, there are distinct characteristics of the physical building, security, network and more that you must consider.
This document discusses the conflicts between Sunnis and Shias in the Middle East, including the Iran-Iraq war from 1980-1988, the Gulf War in 1990-1991, and the Iraq War beginning in 2003. It provides background on the two main sects of Islam, their differing beliefs and demographic distributions in countries like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. It also includes biographical information on Saddam Hussein and details events and consequences of the three major military conflicts involving Iraq over the last few decades.
10 Steps to Data Center Infrastructure Management SuccessRaritan
The document outlines 10 steps to successful data center infrastructure management (DCIM) implementation. It discusses choosing a DCIM solution to address key problems, understanding current processes, focusing on features that solve problems rather than all features, gaining cross-functional alignment, starting small and expanding over time, ensuring integration with existing systems, taking advantage of vendor expertise, training staff, and partnering with an experienced DCIM vendor. It also provides case studies of DCIM implementations at several large companies that improved operational efficiency.
This document provides an overview of the Moodle learning management system (LMS) presented by Gavin Henrick of Enovation Solutions. It discusses key Moodle features such as content types, administration, reporting, assessment, collaboration and customization. Moodle is highlighted as a scalable, secure and customizable platform that supports e-learning standards and integrates with third-party systems. The presentation concludes with Moodle usage statistics and a discussion of why Moodle is a suitable LMS choice.
The document discusses moving a data center to the cloud. It outlines an agenda for analyzing such a transition, including considering cloud security, understanding the current environment, and comparing costs and contracts. The analysis section lists many line items to compare between the current data center and cloud providers, such as infrastructure, licensing costs, disaster recovery, and support. Conducting a thorough analysis of needs, strengths, and weaknesses is important to understand if cloud computing is suitable.
Cloud computing stores data on the internet and relies on third party providers to manage updates and maintenance, while a data center stores data within an organization's local network and is managed by an in-house IT department. Both can store data but only a data center stores physical servers and equipment. A data center gives organizations full control over their data and equipment but has higher costs and less scalability, while cloud computing has lower startup costs, more scalability, and is managed by third parties.
Three Best Practices for Optimizing your IT Infrastructure
In a survey by the Uptime Institute, 42% of enterprise data center managers reported that they would run out of power capacity within 24 months. This statistic isn't surprising when you consider that today's IT hardware requires more power-distribution air conditioning and UPS capacity than in the past.
What steps is your data center taking to mitigate the detrimental disruptions of availability, reliability and uptime caused by a loss of capacity?
To view the recorded webinar event, please visit http://www.42u.com/it-optimization-webinar.htm
Will 2016 be the year that cloud kills the data center? Will the race to the edge continue? Following are my predictions for the trends I expect to dominate the data center industry in 2016.
Eduserv provides cloud and IT services to public sector and nonprofit organizations. They operate a secure, UK-based data center and offer private, community, and secure cloud options as well as professional services. Their services help customers reduce costs, improve security and flexibility, and focus on their missions rather than IT infrastructure. They take a long-term partnership approach to help customers adopt cloud technologies and migrate applications in a pragmatic manner.
Designed to help you leverage dramatic new improvements in technology, there services present a range of offerings that give you the potential to
Cut costs
Get more out of your existing infrastructure
Drive productivity in IT operations
Assert competitive advantage
The document summarizes the findings of a proof of concept (POC) that tested adding compute resources to storage arrays and solutions in order to create more efficient and cost-effective storage. Key findings include:
1) Adding CPU cores and RAM to storage controllers and solutions through virtualization can reduce storage consumption by up to two-thirds and improve performance and resiliency.
2) Compute-intensive solutions that leverage data deduplication and compression in software delivered significant space savings and faster rebuild times compared to hardware-based solutions.
3) The POC validated that adding compute to storage follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider's business model of self-service and delivers efficient primary
Transformation through Innovation: A Strategy for Service Provider SuccessCisco Service Provider
Service providers can gain $1.7 trillion over 10 years by capitalizing on the Internet of Everything through new experiences, business models, and network architecture. Cisco offers a strategy to help service providers transform through virtualized and programmable networks that increase revenue, decrease costs, and improve agility. Cisco has worked with many service providers globally to help them innovate, reduce expenses, and launch new services faster.
Large Financial Services Company Reduces Deployment Time by 75%AppViewX
As a leading global banking and financial services company, multiple teams requesting changes to applications or provisioning of services for new applications across multiple
locations and using different requisition methods posed a potential threat to compliance.
Varying levels of knowledge about the load balancer infrastructure among different teams slowed down the process of implementing configurations, With application teams located in different places and across various silos, requests
had to be coordinated and consolidated using different tools, leading to delays and errors, Application deployments were done manually by individual teams that had to keep
track of the ticket and change windows
This document provides an overview of cloud computing. It introduces Nathaniel Gates and Keith Dobson, who will discuss cloud computing. The agenda includes an overview of cloud computing, why it is relevant now, how to get started, and the future of IT in Alaska. Cloud computing provides on-demand computing resources over the internet. It can save companies money compared to traditional infrastructure models by providing flexibility and scaling. There are different types of cloud including Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Cloud adoption is growing rapidly and expected to continue growing strongly in coming years.
Transformation Through Innovation: A Strategy For Service Provider SuccessCisco Service Provider
Service providers can capitalize on $1.7 trillion in incremental value over the next 10 years through the Internet of Everything (IoE). The opportunity for service providers is to create value for consumers and enterprises. However, operational complexity can stifle the service provider’s ability to reduce costs and become more agile when bringing new capabilities to market. Today most new applications take months to roll out. Upgrades and migrations often take just as long. Service providers seek technology partners that can transform their businesses, helping them to move faster, with more security, greater flexibility, and less risk.
Cisco offers a comprehensive strategy that creates an environment for services providers to advance innovation while enhancing profitability. Cisco helps to make service provider transformation possible in three ways:
● Transform the experience: We deliver capabilities that help service providers develop new experiences for consumers and businesses, as people, things, processes, and data are connected in the IoE. For example:
◦ Fraud protection applications connected to locations through mobile phones
◦ Sensors connecting a basketball with a IP television services
◦ Healthcare applications tracking vital signs from wearables
◦ Public safety services that synchronize ambulances with traffic lights
● Transform the business: We engage with service providers to create new business models and new revenue streams, estimated to be $1.7 trillion over the next decade. Cisco delivers solutions that provide the agility to bring services to market faster.
● Transform the architecture: With the Cisco® Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) and Evolved Services Platform (ESP), we use both physical and virtual technology that offers open, flexible programmability. The network becomes the services platform using the latest automation, orchestration, and virtualization capabilities. Cisco allows many solutions to work together as one open architecture to create a platform of possibilities.
The document discusses the benefits of cloud computing across several industries and use cases. It outlines how cloud computing provides standardized, automated infrastructure that can quickly scale up or down on demand. This allows organizations to reduce IT costs, improve efficiency, and focus on their core business rather than infrastructure management. The cloud also enables faster development and deployment of applications and services.
Adapting to a Hybrid World [Webinar on Demand]ServerCentral
Learn:
- when hybrid IT works: successful deployment models we’ve seen
- when hybrid IT doesn’t work: how to avoid the "gotchas"
- which applications go where in hybrid environments
- pro tips from a managed infrastructure hosting provider's point of view
Oracle EPM Day Philadelphia - What is your Cloud Strategy?Alithya
Edgewater Ranzal is an Oracle Platinum Partner that provides business analytics solutions using Oracle technologies like Hyperion EPM, BI, and big data. They have expertise in financial close and consolidation, business intelligence, enterprise planning and analytics, and other areas. They have offices in North America and Europe and help clients across industries with their business needs.
Intel IT is developing a hybrid cloud environment to host consumer-facing web services. This will provide high availability (99.99% uptime) and flexibility to dynamically scale resources. The key strategies are:
1. Host applications across 3 sites (2 Intel, 1 public cloud) for redundancy if a site fails. Applications are designed to run concurrently ("active-active-active") across sites.
2. Automate failure detection and recovery through monitoring, analysis, and corrective actions without human intervention.
3. Automatically scale resources up or down through "pods" of servers as demand increases or decreases.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's Private Cloud ImplementationVishal Sharma
The document provides an overview of Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA) private cloud initiatives, including Oracle as a Service (OaaS), On Demand Platform (ODP), and Enterprise Platform (EP). OaaS aims to consolidate over 300 Oracle database environments onto standardized platforms to reduce costs and improve management. ODP introduces infrastructure platforms as a service (iPaaS) delivered by multiple providers to provide flexibility. CBA sees significant cost savings through these initiatives while improving agility, availability, and time to market for new applications.
This document provides an overview of IBM's Site and Facilities, Server, and Storage Services portfolio. It describes IBM's services for evaluating, designing, implementing and managing clients' IT infrastructure and physical environments, including data center strategy consulting, facilities assessment, design and construction, consolidation and relocation services, and specialized facilities services. It also outlines IBM's server optimization, integration and managed services, as well as product services. Finally, it discusses IBM's storage and data services portfolio, including storage optimization, information lifecycle management, data mobility, product services, and managed services.
This white paper summarizes the results of benchmark testing of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 and SQL Server 2005 running on Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Servers. The testing achieved unprecedented throughput levels, with the Latency Application scenario reaching 1,156 orchestrations per second. This level of performance far surpassed any previously recorded by Microsoft for BizTalk Server. The results demonstrate the scalability of BizTalk Server on the ES7000 platform and that further optimizations could allow even higher performance.
Cisco is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in California. It designs and sells networking equipment such as routers, switches, networking interface cards and software. Cisco provides networking solutions for enterprises of all sizes, telecommunications companies and service providers to increase productivity and strengthen competitive advantage. It has a vision to change how people connect and a mission to enable powerful connections. Cisco has a global presence and works with customers across various industries including retail, education, healthcare and transportation to deliver intelligent networks and business solutions.
Discover - Mapping Your Hybrid Cloud JourneyLaurenWendler
This document discusses mapping a hybrid cloud journey. It begins by outlining how cloud has evolved to enable innovation across industries like banking, healthcare, and retail. It then asks where organizations are on their cloud journey and how they can rapidly transform and innovate. The document outlines IBM's guiding principles for hybrid cloud and the key steps and outcomes of a successful cloud undertaking, including envisioning possibilities, evaluating current state, outlining strategies, and designing a roadmap. It provides an example of how IBM helped a healthcare client implement a HIPAA-compliant cloud solution to replace aging infrastructure and accelerate delivery. The document concludes by suggesting next steps like joining a roundtable discussion or investigating cloud maturity mapping tools.
The document discusses four different offshore projects completed by Mahindra & Mahindra for various clients. The first project involved developing a central customer database for Prudential plc. The second project designed a web-based information system for a Fortune 500 electronics manufacturer to provide daily access to critical business data. The third project created a data warehousing application for a utility consulting firm to process 50 million meter readings daily. The fourth project involved building a data mart environment for an oil equipment manufacturer to give users consolidated access to enterprise information for reporting and analysis.
Demystifying Machine Learning for Manufacturing: Data Science for allInfosys
This document discusses using machine learning and analytics for manufacturing applications. It begins with an overview of industry 4.0 and the increasing connectivity in manufacturing through technologies like the industrial internet of things. It then discusses how machine learning techniques like classification, regression, clustering and dimensionality reduction can be applied to common use cases in manufacturing around areas like order to cash, core manufacturing, and procure to pay. Specific case studies are presented on using machine learning for energy optimization at Infosys campuses and predicting churn for a automotive manufacturer's connected vehicle subscription services. Visualization and condition-based monitoring using artificial intelligence are also discussed.
Infosys commissioned an independent market research company, Vanson Bourne, to investigate the use of digital technologies and key trends in nine industries. We surveyed 1,000 senior decision makers from business and IT, from large organizations with 1,000 employees or more and annual revenue of at least US$500 million.
The report aims to discover:
a) the surging tide of digital technology adoption in organizations – what is used and where?
b) the promised land of digital technology use, and the hurdles organizations face to get there
c) the biggest disruptive digital trends within the next three years and why organizations see them as vital to future success
The summary here presents the survey results and highlights the digital outlook that will define the healthcare industry strategy over the next three years.
5 tips to make your mainframe as fit as youInfosys
Just like a periodic health check-up is important to assess your overall well-being, a detailed reexamination of the enterprise IT landscape is paramount. We take a look at the various ways an enterprise needs to revamp its mainframe and sharpen its functionalities to stay ahead of the game. While APIs aid you in providing superior customer service, migrating to the cloud provides you with scalability and resilience. These and many more sub-offerings from Infosys aid your organization in staying agile and equipped to leverage the latest technologies to cater to the ever-changing market. Learn more.
This document discusses how Infosys helped modernize various clients' mainframe systems through automation, application redesign, and streamlining of processes. Some key outcomes included issuing cards faster and flagging fraud instantly for a financial institution, optimizing performance and helping launch new products and services worth $160 million for a British financial company, and improving auto-adjudication rates to 85% and saving $2 million for a healthcare giant. Overall, the case studies demonstrated benefits such as reduced costs, improved productivity, faster transactions and launches of new offerings through Infosys' fourth wave modernization services.
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Resources and UtilitiesInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Resources and Utilities.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Telecom and CommunicationInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Telecom and Communication.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Retail and CPGInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Retail and CPG.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Manufacturing and High-techInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Manufacturing and High-tech.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human amplification in the enterprise - Automation. Innovation. Learning.Infosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Automation, Innovation and learning.
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Data Center Consolidation Services
1. Data Center Consolidation for a Global Telecom
Service Provider
Abstract
Infosys proposed reduction in costs of around USD 900K / year for a leading
telecom major in UK, by consolidating data centers at 5 major locations in
UK
For more information, Contact askus@infosys.com
Apr 2009
2. The Client
The client is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services. The client’s principal activities
include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband
and internet products and services.
Business Need
The client had around 2500 servers and had data centers at 5 major locations in UK. The servers were part of multiple
domains, workgroups, etc. The client wanted to consolidate the data centers in order to reduce costs.
Infosys’ Solution
Infosys partnered with the client to study in detail the current server and storage infrastructure and came up with a data
center consolidation assessment. As part of the assessment, Infosys ran an in-house Inventory and Performance tool from a
central site and did a remote polling of servers in order to get the Inventory and Performance data which were then analyzed
to determine the high level design and target architecture. Infosys proposed the road map for data center consolidation and
virtualization with the following approach:
• Defined a consolidation strategy with approach, target state architecture and Risks/ Mitigation plans
• Gathered and analyzed the as-is performance reports to define the target state environment
• Considered options of re-engineering platforms to client’s standardized platforms, Web, App & DB server
consolidation to reduce the number of physical servers
• Virtualization was leveraged to support hosting applications into single physical server
Infosys’ Approach
Infosys approach consisted of Assessment and Analysis, Architecture Definition & Solution Definition and collection and
validation of As-Is Infrastructure inventory and assessment. Infosys defined a target state architecture involving architects
with an optimal solution.
Challenges
• Availability of Bandwidth, Application coexistences
• Resistance to move into shared / virtual environments
Benefits
Infosys envisioned the business perspectives of the datacenter consolidation to determine the most effective strategy for the
client and also helped the client achieve the following benefits:
• Reduction from 952 to 58 physical boxes using virtualization strategy1
• Reduction in operating costs of around USD 900K / year
• Reduction of complexity in managing the servers
1
The numbers represented are specific to this operating environment and will vary between the customer environments.
2 | Infosys – Case Study