This document summarizes FlexCloud hosting, a service that allows businesses to optimize server utilization, reduce costs, and gain IT control and flexibility through a cloud computing model. Key benefits include minimizing upfront costs, pooling computing resources across business units, customizing security configurations, and gaining disaster recovery protection through a fully managed service. The service is targeted towards businesses seeking to upgrade aging infrastructure, improve utilization, and gain IT agility while maintaining management control over their environments.
This document discusses server consolidation and virtualization using blade servers and VMware. It begins with an overview of server consolidation benefits like lower costs and improved efficiency. It then describes blade server types, consolidation steps, and system management. Case studies show how organizations implemented consolidation using blades. The document also covers VMware software products and how virtualization allows further consolidation. It ends by noting virtualization and consolidation can reduce complexity through a multi-step process.
The document discusses VMware's strategy and solutions for virtualization. It highlights virtualization as the top strategic technology for 2009 according to Gartner. It outlines VMware's virtualization solutions like server consolidation, virtual desktop infrastructure, and disaster recovery. It also discusses VMware's strategy to evolve its virtualization platform into a "Virtual Datacenter Operating System" to provide services and automation across the entire datacenter.
Presentation vmware building “your cloud”solarisyourep
The document discusses how to build a private cloud using VMware technologies. It describes how VMware vSphere virtualizes the environment, VMware vCloud Director is used to build the private cloud, and VMware vCloud Connector Plug-in allows migrating workloads between the private cloud and vSphere environments or public clouds. Professional services from VMware can help with planning and deploying the private cloud.
Sql server consolidation and virtualizationIvan Donev
This document discusses SQL Server consolidation and virtualization. It begins with defining consolidation as combining units into more efficient larger units to improve cost efficiency. It then discusses approaches to consolidation like combining databases or instances. Considerations for consolidation like workloads, applications, and manageability are covered. SQL Server virtualization is also discussed, noting the benefits of isolation, migration, and simplification. The market section outlines products that can help like SQL Server 2008 R2 and the HP ProLiant DL980 server. It concludes with discussing how to start a consolidation project through inventory, testing, and migration planning. Tools to help are also listed.
There are many ways to reduce costs in IT. Consolidation is one of these ways. Many IT managers thinking only about virtualization when consider consolidation. Multi-instancing is very legitimate and effective way too. Managers and DBAs have to understand benefits and pitfalls, difference from virtualization. Presentation is unveiling real-world practice and experience of support of over 70 servers with at least 6 instances on each with over 2500 databases. This presentation can be helpful for infrastructure managers, system architects, and DBAs .
This document provides an overview of IBM Flex System Manager, an integrated management solution for data centers. It discusses challenges organizations face with managing complex, siloed IT infrastructures and outlines how Flex System Manager addresses these challenges through simplified, automated management. Key capabilities of Flex System Manager include integrated firmware and software updates, virtualization management, storage management, fabric management, energy management, and a user interface with interactive chassis maps and overlay views.
IBM Storage and VMware – A Winning CombinationPaula Koziol
The document discusses the partnership between IBM and VMware, stating that they offer the broadest portfolio of virtualization solutions and deep integration between their products. It notes that they provide comprehensive services and support, and leadership in software defined strategies and cloud innovation. The partnership enables customers to dramatically reduce IT complexity, lower costs, improve efficiency and scalability, and increase flexibility and business agility. IBM delivers storage systems, software defined storage, and converged infrastructure for VMware environments.
IBM Spectrum Storage was introduced in February 2015 as a family of optimized software-defined storage solutions. It provides unified analytics-driven management for any storage, advanced data placement to maximize performance and efficiency, and deployment flexibility. Over the last 6 months, IBM Spectrum Storage has added several new capabilities including management, protection, archiving, virtualization, acceleration, and scaling solutions. It offers comprehensive data protection with dedupe that can reduce backup infrastructure costs by up to 53%.
This document discusses server consolidation and virtualization using blade servers and VMware. It begins with an overview of server consolidation benefits like lower costs and improved efficiency. It then describes blade server types, consolidation steps, and system management. Case studies show how organizations implemented consolidation using blades. The document also covers VMware software products and how virtualization allows further consolidation. It ends by noting virtualization and consolidation can reduce complexity through a multi-step process.
The document discusses VMware's strategy and solutions for virtualization. It highlights virtualization as the top strategic technology for 2009 according to Gartner. It outlines VMware's virtualization solutions like server consolidation, virtual desktop infrastructure, and disaster recovery. It also discusses VMware's strategy to evolve its virtualization platform into a "Virtual Datacenter Operating System" to provide services and automation across the entire datacenter.
Presentation vmware building “your cloud”solarisyourep
The document discusses how to build a private cloud using VMware technologies. It describes how VMware vSphere virtualizes the environment, VMware vCloud Director is used to build the private cloud, and VMware vCloud Connector Plug-in allows migrating workloads between the private cloud and vSphere environments or public clouds. Professional services from VMware can help with planning and deploying the private cloud.
Sql server consolidation and virtualizationIvan Donev
This document discusses SQL Server consolidation and virtualization. It begins with defining consolidation as combining units into more efficient larger units to improve cost efficiency. It then discusses approaches to consolidation like combining databases or instances. Considerations for consolidation like workloads, applications, and manageability are covered. SQL Server virtualization is also discussed, noting the benefits of isolation, migration, and simplification. The market section outlines products that can help like SQL Server 2008 R2 and the HP ProLiant DL980 server. It concludes with discussing how to start a consolidation project through inventory, testing, and migration planning. Tools to help are also listed.
There are many ways to reduce costs in IT. Consolidation is one of these ways. Many IT managers thinking only about virtualization when consider consolidation. Multi-instancing is very legitimate and effective way too. Managers and DBAs have to understand benefits and pitfalls, difference from virtualization. Presentation is unveiling real-world practice and experience of support of over 70 servers with at least 6 instances on each with over 2500 databases. This presentation can be helpful for infrastructure managers, system architects, and DBAs .
This document provides an overview of IBM Flex System Manager, an integrated management solution for data centers. It discusses challenges organizations face with managing complex, siloed IT infrastructures and outlines how Flex System Manager addresses these challenges through simplified, automated management. Key capabilities of Flex System Manager include integrated firmware and software updates, virtualization management, storage management, fabric management, energy management, and a user interface with interactive chassis maps and overlay views.
IBM Storage and VMware – A Winning CombinationPaula Koziol
The document discusses the partnership between IBM and VMware, stating that they offer the broadest portfolio of virtualization solutions and deep integration between their products. It notes that they provide comprehensive services and support, and leadership in software defined strategies and cloud innovation. The partnership enables customers to dramatically reduce IT complexity, lower costs, improve efficiency and scalability, and increase flexibility and business agility. IBM delivers storage systems, software defined storage, and converged infrastructure for VMware environments.
IBM Spectrum Storage was introduced in February 2015 as a family of optimized software-defined storage solutions. It provides unified analytics-driven management for any storage, advanced data placement to maximize performance and efficiency, and deployment flexibility. Over the last 6 months, IBM Spectrum Storage has added several new capabilities including management, protection, archiving, virtualization, acceleration, and scaling solutions. It offers comprehensive data protection with dedupe that can reduce backup infrastructure costs by up to 53%.
This document discusses storage virtualization on servers. It begins by defining storage and virtualization, explaining that virtualization allows system resources like storage to be divided into virtual resources. It then discusses server virtualization specifically and how storage can be virtualized on individual servers through volume managers that abstract physical disks into logical volumes. The benefits of storage virtualization on servers are efficient use of resources and integration of multiple storage systems, though it requires software on each server.
IBM released updates to FlashCopy Manager 3.2 and IBM TSM for Virtual Environments 6.4. The updates include enhancements to backup and restore capabilities for virtual machines, file systems, databases, and custom applications. They provide improved support for VMware environments, SQL Server 2012, Exchange 2010, and remote mirroring capabilities. The user interface was also enhanced with a new configuration wizard and reporting features.
IBM Endpoint Manager for Server Automation presentationRMayo22
IBM Endpoint Manager provides automated server management capabilities through a single console, agent, and server that can manage up to 250,000 endpoints. It allows users to consolidate server management tools and teams, reduce human errors through simplified application lifecycle management, and lower costs by improving operational efficiency with custom automation plans that can be reused. The solution supports both physical and virtual servers across various operating systems.
1) IBM PureApplication System and Maximo patterns simplify cloud application platforms and infrastructure by automating deployment and management of applications through pre-defined patterns.
2) The Maximo pattern automates the deployment of Maximo Asset Management instances onto virtual machines managed by the PureApplication System in around 2.5 hours compared to several days without patterns.
3) Patterns reduce the time required for deploying, updating, and maintaining Maximo implementations across development, test, and production environments.
This document discusses server virtualization and cloud computing. It defines key concepts like virtualization, hypervisors, and cloud types. The benefits of virtualization include reduced hardware costs and increased flexibility. When using virtualization for databases, performance must be monitored and optimized. Cloud computing provides on-demand resources at lower costs but requires careful review of security and licensing. Major cloud database providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and hosted Oracle options are overviewed.
This document provides a 3-paragraph summary of a VMware presentation on virtualization technology and VMware Infrastructure 3:
VMware provides server virtualization technology that allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This increases hardware utilization and simplifies operations such as provisioning, capacity management, and disaster recovery. VMware Infrastructure 3 builds on this virtualization foundation by adding capabilities for logical resource pooling, distributed resource scheduling, high availability of virtual machines, and centralized backup. These features help customers increase service levels, simplify operations, and deploy IT resources more pervasively across their organizations. The document outlines several key usage areas for VMware Infrastructure 3 including server consolidation, test and development environments, virtual desktops, and
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Fastback is a data protection and recovery software solution for Windows and Linux servers. It provides mission-critical application protection, remote office backup consolidation, and the ability to restore any type of data from any location. The presentation discusses Tivoli Storage Manager Fastback's product suite, architecture, features like block-level incremental capture and deduplication, support for virtual environments, and strengths like resource efficiency and instant recovery compared to weaknesses like lack of integration with VM management platforms. A demo and discussion period followed the presentation.
IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) provides data protection and recovery for hybrid cloud environments. This document summarizes a presentation on IBM's strategic direction for Spectrum Protect, including plans to enhance the product to better support hybrid cloud, virtual environments, large-scale deduplication, simplified management, and protection for key workloads. The presentation outlines roadmap features for 2015 and potential future enhancements.
IBM & Veeam: Bridging the availability gapPaula Koziol
Today’s IT decision makers know they have an availability gap — the difference between the uptime and recovery service levels they can provide and what their customers, users and partners expect. Together IBM and Veeam bridge the availability gap, helping customers meet ever increasing service level requirements for recovery of IT services and their associated applications and data. In this session, we’ll provide an overview of the IBM solutions for Veeam users, with an emphasis on our storage integrations and cloud services, with public cloud deployment considerations.
The document discusses Veeam's availability suite version 8. It highlights key features such as high-speed recovery that allows instant VM recovery, data loss avoidance through automated backup verification, verified protection that ensures backups are working properly, leveraged data through restored test environments, complete visibility into virtual and backup environments, and support for modern data centers and cloud. The document promotes how Veeam helps enable always-on business operations with no downtime or data loss.
Accelerate Your Signature Banking Applications with IBM Storage OfferingsPaula Koziol
Signature Users can cut application run and response times by as much as 50% by applying the latest IBM Storage offerings. Hear about an example Signature User’s experience and benefits with IBM Flash. Also, hear about IBM’s direction with the IBMi processor and answer questions you may have in upgrading your IT infrastructure. Current data growth, analytics, and real-time access needs have changed the storage landscape for our clients, particularly in banking. IBM’s multi-billion dollar investments in storage are making a significant impact on the speed, efficiency, and management of these needs. Offerings such as all-flash systems and software defined storage have especially become attractive to our banking clients who are both accelerating the speed of existing applications, such as core banking – or, creating new applications demanding real-time access, such as cybersecurity and cognitive in payments. Learn how others in the Financial Services industry are addressing core banking, payments, and risk & compliance applications using IBM Storage offerings. In addition to Signature, other core banking examples applying flash storage within Fiserv include: Premier, Precision, and XP2. Many of the same business benefits experienced within the banking industry could apply to you and your clients. Learn how you can easily implement these proven capabilities with your Signature application now.
The document discusses IBM's FlashSystem storage solutions and provides the following key points in 3 sentences:
IBM is the clear leader in the flash storage market with 25% market share in 2013 and shipping more capacity than its two closest competitors combined in 2014. The document introduces IBM's new FlashSystem 900 and FlashSystem V9000, which deliver extreme performance through IBM FlashCore technology and radically accelerate applications with microsecond response times. IBM's FlashSystem solutions help customers derive business value from big data in real-time through use cases like analytics, address storage performance gaps faced by most organizations, and come with an IBM FlashSystem Tier 1 performance guarantee.
United Global Soft provides corporate training programs and workshops conducted by industry experts on various IBM Tivoli software products. They offer courses on Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager, Tivoli Netcool, Tivoli Security, IBM Maximo, Tivoli Asset Management for IT, Tivoli Network and Service Assurance, Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management, Tivoli Service Process Automation, and more. Their training features hands-on exercises, practical project explanations, training materials, personal attention, and resume/placement assistance.
SmartCloud Provisioning - details and demoIBM Danmark
Organizations need a low-cost, low-risk entry point to cloud computing technology with compelling features that achieves their business goals. IBM SmartCloud Provisioning provides such an option with its core capabilities including rapid scalable deployment of virtual machines, continuous operations during upgrades, reliable and fault-tolerant architecture, and self-service provisioning to save on IT labor costs.
This document provides an overview of System Center 2012. It discusses the key components of System Center 2012 including Virtual Machine Manager, Server Application Virtualization, System Center "Concero", Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Service Manager, and Data Protection Manager. It highlights new features and investment areas for each component and provides a roadmap for future releases. The presentation includes a demo of Virtual Machine Manager and discusses how System Center 2012 can help organizations move to a private cloud model and gain benefits like agility, automation, and focus on applications and services.
VMworld 2013: VMware vSphere High Availability - What's New and Best PracticesVMworld
VMworld 2013
Keith Farkas, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Jeff Hunter, VMware
Veeam software provides backup and replication capabilities for NetApp HCI infrastructure that improve availability. Veeam can backup virtual machines on NetApp HCI to reduce recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives to as low as 15 minutes. It also allows for replication of virtual machines between NetApp HCI clusters for disaster recovery. Veeam includes features like built-in WAN acceleration for offsite backups and explorers to enable precise recovery of items from SQL Server, Exchange, and other applications.
POWER8 the x86 Server Farm - IBM Business Partners use POWER8 to Lower Client...Paula Koziol
Discover ISV solutions built using Linux on IBM POWER8 that will lower your Total Cost of Ownership compared to alternative platform technologies. Gain a competitive advantage with these solutions that analyze more data faster and improve performance at a much lower cost. Linux on IBM POWER8 is the only infrastructure that provides both scale-out and scale-up capabilities that optimizes the efficiency of your workloads while reducing your costs, allowing you to handle any business challenge.
This presentation highlights several high value solutions we have developed with Independent Software Vendors (ISV) IBM Business Partners. Hear directly from our ISV partners on the partnership and the value we deliver to our joint customers.
Visit http://www.ibm.com/power for more information.
Also visit the IBM Systems ISVs YouTube video channel for additional ISV Solutions on IBM Power Systems: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN0Az2aq_pjgJs-1fFX0fw4BMRy2GeaHC
Follow us at @IBMSystemsISVs (https://twitter.com/IBMSystemsISVs)
Basics of Virtualization:
What is Virtual and Virtualization?
Why do we need Virtualization?
Benefits of Virtualization.
Before and after Virtualization.
How Virtualization works?
Virtual Machines.
VMware
Types of Virtualization:
1. Server Virtualization
2. Storage virtualization
3. I/O virtualization
4. Network virtualization
5. Client virtualization
6. Desktop virtualization
7. Application Virtualization
Earthlink introduction and its overview eb 01-16-04 E B
EarthLink provides IT services including managed services, cloud hosting, security services, and managed support. It has transformed from an ISP into a full-service managed service provider (MSP) through acquisitions since 2006. It now has over 3,000 employees and 150,000 business customers, and was ranked the #1 MSP in the US. EarthLink offers a range of cloud and IT solutions to help businesses simplify IT management and reduce costs.
This document discusses EarthLink's cloud hosting services. It begins by outlining typical business challenges that cloud computing can address, such as reducing IT costs and complexity while scaling resources. It then provides details on EarthLink's next generation cloud, including industry-leading technology platforms in new data centers connected by a private MPLS network. Specific cloud services are highlighted, along with customer benefits like improved performance, security, and network capabilities. Configuration examples and managed service options for cloud and dedicated server hosting are also summarized.
This document discusses storage virtualization on servers. It begins by defining storage and virtualization, explaining that virtualization allows system resources like storage to be divided into virtual resources. It then discusses server virtualization specifically and how storage can be virtualized on individual servers through volume managers that abstract physical disks into logical volumes. The benefits of storage virtualization on servers are efficient use of resources and integration of multiple storage systems, though it requires software on each server.
IBM released updates to FlashCopy Manager 3.2 and IBM TSM for Virtual Environments 6.4. The updates include enhancements to backup and restore capabilities for virtual machines, file systems, databases, and custom applications. They provide improved support for VMware environments, SQL Server 2012, Exchange 2010, and remote mirroring capabilities. The user interface was also enhanced with a new configuration wizard and reporting features.
IBM Endpoint Manager for Server Automation presentationRMayo22
IBM Endpoint Manager provides automated server management capabilities through a single console, agent, and server that can manage up to 250,000 endpoints. It allows users to consolidate server management tools and teams, reduce human errors through simplified application lifecycle management, and lower costs by improving operational efficiency with custom automation plans that can be reused. The solution supports both physical and virtual servers across various operating systems.
1) IBM PureApplication System and Maximo patterns simplify cloud application platforms and infrastructure by automating deployment and management of applications through pre-defined patterns.
2) The Maximo pattern automates the deployment of Maximo Asset Management instances onto virtual machines managed by the PureApplication System in around 2.5 hours compared to several days without patterns.
3) Patterns reduce the time required for deploying, updating, and maintaining Maximo implementations across development, test, and production environments.
This document discusses server virtualization and cloud computing. It defines key concepts like virtualization, hypervisors, and cloud types. The benefits of virtualization include reduced hardware costs and increased flexibility. When using virtualization for databases, performance must be monitored and optimized. Cloud computing provides on-demand resources at lower costs but requires careful review of security and licensing. Major cloud database providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and hosted Oracle options are overviewed.
This document provides a 3-paragraph summary of a VMware presentation on virtualization technology and VMware Infrastructure 3:
VMware provides server virtualization technology that allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This increases hardware utilization and simplifies operations such as provisioning, capacity management, and disaster recovery. VMware Infrastructure 3 builds on this virtualization foundation by adding capabilities for logical resource pooling, distributed resource scheduling, high availability of virtual machines, and centralized backup. These features help customers increase service levels, simplify operations, and deploy IT resources more pervasively across their organizations. The document outlines several key usage areas for VMware Infrastructure 3 including server consolidation, test and development environments, virtual desktops, and
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Fastback is a data protection and recovery software solution for Windows and Linux servers. It provides mission-critical application protection, remote office backup consolidation, and the ability to restore any type of data from any location. The presentation discusses Tivoli Storage Manager Fastback's product suite, architecture, features like block-level incremental capture and deduplication, support for virtual environments, and strengths like resource efficiency and instant recovery compared to weaknesses like lack of integration with VM management platforms. A demo and discussion period followed the presentation.
IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) provides data protection and recovery for hybrid cloud environments. This document summarizes a presentation on IBM's strategic direction for Spectrum Protect, including plans to enhance the product to better support hybrid cloud, virtual environments, large-scale deduplication, simplified management, and protection for key workloads. The presentation outlines roadmap features for 2015 and potential future enhancements.
IBM & Veeam: Bridging the availability gapPaula Koziol
Today’s IT decision makers know they have an availability gap — the difference between the uptime and recovery service levels they can provide and what their customers, users and partners expect. Together IBM and Veeam bridge the availability gap, helping customers meet ever increasing service level requirements for recovery of IT services and their associated applications and data. In this session, we’ll provide an overview of the IBM solutions for Veeam users, with an emphasis on our storage integrations and cloud services, with public cloud deployment considerations.
The document discusses Veeam's availability suite version 8. It highlights key features such as high-speed recovery that allows instant VM recovery, data loss avoidance through automated backup verification, verified protection that ensures backups are working properly, leveraged data through restored test environments, complete visibility into virtual and backup environments, and support for modern data centers and cloud. The document promotes how Veeam helps enable always-on business operations with no downtime or data loss.
Accelerate Your Signature Banking Applications with IBM Storage OfferingsPaula Koziol
Signature Users can cut application run and response times by as much as 50% by applying the latest IBM Storage offerings. Hear about an example Signature User’s experience and benefits with IBM Flash. Also, hear about IBM’s direction with the IBMi processor and answer questions you may have in upgrading your IT infrastructure. Current data growth, analytics, and real-time access needs have changed the storage landscape for our clients, particularly in banking. IBM’s multi-billion dollar investments in storage are making a significant impact on the speed, efficiency, and management of these needs. Offerings such as all-flash systems and software defined storage have especially become attractive to our banking clients who are both accelerating the speed of existing applications, such as core banking – or, creating new applications demanding real-time access, such as cybersecurity and cognitive in payments. Learn how others in the Financial Services industry are addressing core banking, payments, and risk & compliance applications using IBM Storage offerings. In addition to Signature, other core banking examples applying flash storage within Fiserv include: Premier, Precision, and XP2. Many of the same business benefits experienced within the banking industry could apply to you and your clients. Learn how you can easily implement these proven capabilities with your Signature application now.
The document discusses IBM's FlashSystem storage solutions and provides the following key points in 3 sentences:
IBM is the clear leader in the flash storage market with 25% market share in 2013 and shipping more capacity than its two closest competitors combined in 2014. The document introduces IBM's new FlashSystem 900 and FlashSystem V9000, which deliver extreme performance through IBM FlashCore technology and radically accelerate applications with microsecond response times. IBM's FlashSystem solutions help customers derive business value from big data in real-time through use cases like analytics, address storage performance gaps faced by most organizations, and come with an IBM FlashSystem Tier 1 performance guarantee.
United Global Soft provides corporate training programs and workshops conducted by industry experts on various IBM Tivoli software products. They offer courses on Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager, Tivoli Netcool, Tivoli Security, IBM Maximo, Tivoli Asset Management for IT, Tivoli Network and Service Assurance, Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management, Tivoli Service Process Automation, and more. Their training features hands-on exercises, practical project explanations, training materials, personal attention, and resume/placement assistance.
SmartCloud Provisioning - details and demoIBM Danmark
Organizations need a low-cost, low-risk entry point to cloud computing technology with compelling features that achieves their business goals. IBM SmartCloud Provisioning provides such an option with its core capabilities including rapid scalable deployment of virtual machines, continuous operations during upgrades, reliable and fault-tolerant architecture, and self-service provisioning to save on IT labor costs.
This document provides an overview of System Center 2012. It discusses the key components of System Center 2012 including Virtual Machine Manager, Server Application Virtualization, System Center "Concero", Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Service Manager, and Data Protection Manager. It highlights new features and investment areas for each component and provides a roadmap for future releases. The presentation includes a demo of Virtual Machine Manager and discusses how System Center 2012 can help organizations move to a private cloud model and gain benefits like agility, automation, and focus on applications and services.
VMworld 2013: VMware vSphere High Availability - What's New and Best PracticesVMworld
VMworld 2013
Keith Farkas, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Jeff Hunter, VMware
Veeam software provides backup and replication capabilities for NetApp HCI infrastructure that improve availability. Veeam can backup virtual machines on NetApp HCI to reduce recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives to as low as 15 minutes. It also allows for replication of virtual machines between NetApp HCI clusters for disaster recovery. Veeam includes features like built-in WAN acceleration for offsite backups and explorers to enable precise recovery of items from SQL Server, Exchange, and other applications.
POWER8 the x86 Server Farm - IBM Business Partners use POWER8 to Lower Client...Paula Koziol
Discover ISV solutions built using Linux on IBM POWER8 that will lower your Total Cost of Ownership compared to alternative platform technologies. Gain a competitive advantage with these solutions that analyze more data faster and improve performance at a much lower cost. Linux on IBM POWER8 is the only infrastructure that provides both scale-out and scale-up capabilities that optimizes the efficiency of your workloads while reducing your costs, allowing you to handle any business challenge.
This presentation highlights several high value solutions we have developed with Independent Software Vendors (ISV) IBM Business Partners. Hear directly from our ISV partners on the partnership and the value we deliver to our joint customers.
Visit http://www.ibm.com/power for more information.
Also visit the IBM Systems ISVs YouTube video channel for additional ISV Solutions on IBM Power Systems: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN0Az2aq_pjgJs-1fFX0fw4BMRy2GeaHC
Follow us at @IBMSystemsISVs (https://twitter.com/IBMSystemsISVs)
Basics of Virtualization:
What is Virtual and Virtualization?
Why do we need Virtualization?
Benefits of Virtualization.
Before and after Virtualization.
How Virtualization works?
Virtual Machines.
VMware
Types of Virtualization:
1. Server Virtualization
2. Storage virtualization
3. I/O virtualization
4. Network virtualization
5. Client virtualization
6. Desktop virtualization
7. Application Virtualization
Earthlink introduction and its overview eb 01-16-04 E B
EarthLink provides IT services including managed services, cloud hosting, security services, and managed support. It has transformed from an ISP into a full-service managed service provider (MSP) through acquisitions since 2006. It now has over 3,000 employees and 150,000 business customers, and was ranked the #1 MSP in the US. EarthLink offers a range of cloud and IT solutions to help businesses simplify IT management and reduce costs.
This document discusses EarthLink's cloud hosting services. It begins by outlining typical business challenges that cloud computing can address, such as reducing IT costs and complexity while scaling resources. It then provides details on EarthLink's next generation cloud, including industry-leading technology platforms in new data centers connected by a private MPLS network. Specific cloud services are highlighted, along with customer benefits like improved performance, security, and network capabilities. Configuration examples and managed service options for cloud and dedicated server hosting are also summarized.
This document discusses the Windows Azure Pack, which allows enterprises to build their own multi-tenant clouds with the same technologies and APIs as the public Windows Azure cloud. It provides a consistent platform experience for both customers and IT administrators across private, hosted, and public clouds. Key benefits include building on familiar Windows Server and System Center foundations, simple and cost-effective service delivery, and open interoperability and extensibility.
The Next Generation of Hyperconverged Infrastructure - CiscoMarcoTechnologies
This document provides an overview of Cisco HyperFlex systems. It discusses how HyperFlex delivers complete hyperconvergence through a unified compute and network infrastructure. It also describes the next generation HyperFlex data platform and how it was designed for distributed storage. Finally, it outlines some of the key benefits HyperFlex provides such as efficient scalability, adaptability, and cloud-speed deployment capabilities.
Join Marc Trouard-Riolle from Citrix Cloud Product Marketing for the latest presentation in the Citrix Cloud Master Class series.
In this session you will hear about building private enterprise clouds with Citrix CloudPlatform:
Learn about hypervisor, storage and networking considerations within private cloud use cases
Build a tailored availability zone for traditional workloads
See a step-by-step demonstration of building an enterprise private cloud
VMworld 2013: IaaS Case Study: How the University of New Mexico Improved Serv...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Rich Bourdeau, VMware
Jon Harris, vBrownbag
Brian Pietrewicz, University of New Mexico
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
IBM SmartCloud™ Entry is a robust cloud software offering that takes your virtualized environment from cloud-ready to cloud. Users can request and provision an environment quickly through an easy-to-use web-based interface. IT managers can monitor and manage this environment for improved efficiency and utilization of the data center.
Cloud Orchestrator - IBM Software Defined Environment EventDenny Muktar
IBM Cloud Orchestrator automates the provisioning and management of IT services across public, private and hybrid clouds. It reduces the number of steps required through an easy-to-use interface and provides access to pre-built automation patterns. The tool integrates management functions like monitoring, metering, and capacity planning. It also includes a catalog of automation packages from IBM and partners that can be dragged and dropped to quickly compose workflows for deploying applications and infrastructure.
The document discusses Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 and its components for managing IT infrastructure and automating processes. It provides an overview of System Center capabilities for data center and client automation. Key components described include System Center Configuration Manager for device management, Operations Manager for monitoring, Virtual Machine Manager for hypervisor management, and Service Manager for IT service management. The document demonstrates System Center's unified management capabilities and how customers can get started or advance their use of System Center.
A presentation deck that highlights the features of Informix v11.70 release. The release had made lots of noise in the area of High Availability Cluster, Performance, OLTP Characteristics, etc. Get to know more about it.
Caching for Microservices Architectures: Session IVMware Tanzu
This document discusses how caching can help address performance, scalability, and autonomy challenges for microservices architectures. It introduces Pivotal Cloud Cache (PCC) as a caching solution for microservices on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. PCC provides an in-memory cache that can scale horizontally and increase performance. It also allows for data autonomy between microservices and teams while providing high availability. PCC offers an easy and cost-effective way to cache data and adopt microservices on Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems: The Next Generation in Complete Hypercon...Cisco Canada
Initial hyperconverged solutions brought new levels of IT simplicity, as well as the associated speed. However, quickly increasing simplicity came at a price and design trade-offs were made limiting infrastructure agility, efficiency, and adaptability.
Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems, complete hyperconvergence that unifies Cisco networking and computing technology with the next-generation Cisco HX Data Platform. Powered by the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform, Cisco HyperFlex solutions deliver new levels of operational efficiency and adaptability to more workloads and applications. Cisco HyperFlex technology answers the operations requirements for agility, scalability, and pay-as-you-grow economics of the cloud—but with the benefits of on-premises infrastructure.
Agenda:
• New innovations to the Cisco data center portfolio
• Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems powered by the Cisco UCS platform
• Deep dive into the Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform
• Preview early deployments of Cisco HyperFlex Systems
Eplexity Managed Service for Health Care using Private and Public Cloudseplexity
A review of our Managed Services for HealthCare with a focus on Radilogy Imaging Applications in a Private Eplexity Cloud using acceleration of SD-WAN, VMware Cloud Foundations with 24*7 support from our Managed Services team . IAAS and PAAS. Complete with SLA.
In this document, cloud computing concepts and service models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) are introduced. Effective use of cloud computing in primary schools is also discussed. Specifically, adopting cloud computing can help schools reduce IT costs, improve resource utilization, easily update software, and provide students and teachers secure access to applications and data from any device. Case studies of schools in Hong Kong that have implemented virtual desktop infrastructure and cloud solutions are presented.
This document provides an agenda and overview for an IBM PureSystems Sales Bootcamp. The agenda covers test information and objectives, PureFlex positioning and components, configuration, tools and sample questions. Key points include descriptions of the PureFlex Express, Standard and Enterprise configurations, their components like compute nodes and chassis, and the Flex System Manager for integrated management. Benefits highlighted are optimized configurations, simplicity, choice and automation.
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2. Business Priorities
• Minimize CAPEX
• Maximize
employee
productivity
• Grow the
business
• Add new compute
resources realtime to support
growth
• Meet compliance
requirements
• Business
continuity and
disaster recovery
protection
IT Priorities
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Manage change
Upgrade aging IT
infrastructure
Manage IT
infrastructure and
growth without adding
staff
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Optimize server
utilization
Ensure disaster
recovery protection
Focus staff on growth
initiatives
3. FlexCloud Hosting –
Solves Specific IT Priorities
I am virtualized already with
20+ servers. I need a better
way to track server and
application utilization and
eliminate sprawl.
I have a skilled IT staff of 5+
people and I need to maintain
management control of my IT
infrastructure while leveraging the
cloud.
I have internal infrastructure
and internet facing
environments. I need to
separate the two networks for
security, but track resources
across both.
I have multiple business units
that have their own server farms.
I’d like to have a computing
resource pooling, tracking and
allocation system
I need to track cloud
environments on a per
department basis for charge
back and budgeting
purposes.
My IT staff wants to manage
resources and servers but I
need a way to present the
resource usage and billing
to executives and clerical
staff.
4. EarthLink FlexCloud Hosting
• Create secure IT environments for individual business units
• Monitor and optimize server utilization across multiple cloud
environments
• Reduce costs of server sprawl by pooling resources
• IT team maintains complete control with portals and dashboards.
• Create separate public and private virtual environments to meet your
security and compliance requirements
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention with reporting
• Customize firewall rules for enhanced security and compliance
• Managed Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
• FlexCloud Assessment establishes a baseline resource level
• Ability to burst when additional resources required
• Fully managed service options
5. Reduce server sprawl costs by creating
multiple business units in same Cloud
• IT controls entire Cloud environment
– Administrative portal for complete control
– Create and allocate compute resources for multiple business units
– Authorize business unit resource requests
• Control Server sprawl by allocating resources across multiple
business units/groups
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Track costs internally and charge back on individual business unit basis
Business units control their own IT environment via User Portal
User Portal provides business unit monitoring and reporting
Deliver business unit application and group level SLAs
6. FlexCloud Utilizes the Micro-VM Concept
The Micro-VM:
Defined as 200Mhz of CPU and 768MB of Memory
Traditional Virtualization
Solutions are based on
fixed allocations of
processor and memory
size for each application
or workload
Micro Virtual Machine
eliminates traditional
constraints on resource
deployment
Micro-VMs are dynamically
allocated by the FlexCloud
management system allowing
VM headroom to be saved,
bringing up to 30% reductions
in both virtual and physical
assets required.
7. Optimize Server Utilization
Cloud Hosting
FlexCloud Hosting
Virtual Machine (VM) Based
Micro-VM Based
Convenient . Easy for small number of VMs.
Optimize resources for cost efficiencies across IT
environment for larger number of VMs
8. Bursting - Consumption-Based Pricing
Cloud Hosting
FlexCloud Hosting
Virtual Machine (VM) Based
Micro-VM Based
Capacity sized for guesstimated peak
demand
BURST CAPACITY
SUBSCRIPTION LEVEL
RESOURCES CONSUMED
RESOURCES CONSUMED
SAVINGS
95TH PERCENTILE
USAGE WITH BURSTING
BASELINE CAPACITY
Minimum commit rates are established, with
the ability to burst past those rates
MONTHLY USAGE
MONTHLY USAGE
9. IT Administrator & Business Unit Portals
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myLink Portals
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Administration portal provides
overarching resource control
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Service Catalogs can be
customized on a per user or
organizational basis
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Business User portal provides
usage reporting and alerts
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Enable cost containment /
management across business
units
Admin
Portal
Services
Catalog Business-User
Portal
10. myLink FlexCloud Business User Portal
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myLink FlexCloud Portal provides a comprehensive dashboard of real-time cloud
activity
Monitor overall cloud workload performance by viewing real-time consumption and
application-level monitoring metrics
Role-based access allows administrators to grant user access to certain virtual
datacenters with pre-determined policies
11. FlexCloud Hosting - Customizable Security Configurations
• Create separate public and private environments
– Securely segment Public/Private VMs and networks
– Physical separation on different compute blades
– Access private VMs via secure MPLS or VPN
• Flexible Firewall functionality with Data Center Firewall
– Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IPS) with reporting
– Create site to site VPNs
– Customize Firewall rules
12. FlexCloud Hosting Managed Services Options
• Bronze Level service is included
• Upgrade to more comprehensive levels
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum
Network Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Power Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Hardware Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced Monitoring
Yes
Yes
OS Installation
Yes
Yes
OS Patches & Security Updates
Yes
Yes
Antivirus Services
Yes
Yes
OS Reloads
Yes
Yes
Server Reboot
24/7 Emergency Support
Basic Monitoring (ping)
Backup Management
Restore
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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15. EarthLink FlexCloud Hosting
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FlexCloud Assessment
Consultative support to help you
design a customized solution
Multi-layered security, self-healing
cloud architecture, and automatic
server failover
Scaling and Cloud Server
Management through User Portals
Hosted in SSAE 16 SOC2 certified
data centers
CommVault Enterprise backup
Disaster Recovery option
Cloud Computing Excellence Award
recognizes companies that have most
effectively leveraged cloud computing in
their efforts to bring new, differentiated
offerings to market.
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10 MB Internet Bandwidth
Bursting of compute resources
10G NetApp SAN storage
Data Center Firewall
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Managed service option
99.99% uptime guarantee
24/7/365 monitoring
16. FlexCloud Hosting Key Benefits
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Optimize server utilization and control server sprawl
Create separate business unit cloud environments
Business unit user controls
Complete IT control with Administrator portal
Customize security policies to meet industry compliance
Create Public and Private facing environments
Eliminate CAPEX
Reduce on-premises data center & IT operating expenses
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17. 17
Achieving IT Agility in Your Cloud
Designed to meet your business
requirements -- not “one-cloud-fits-all”
Works seamlessly with
your current IT investments
Aligned to your business
and approach to IT
Flexible and secure, both
on and off-premise
Incremental, not wholesale,
change
Editor's Notes
Most business have a fairly similar set of overarching priorities as noted here, and likely your business has many of these as well.These business priorities tend to drive these common IT priorities within the business.
FlexCloud Hosting provides solutions for some very specific IT priorities like those listed here. FlexCloud is best suited for businesses with 20+ servers, multiple business units, and a team of highly skilled IT folks of 5 or more.
The key benefits and features of FlexCloud Hosting are listed here.
A key benefit is the ability to reduce the costs of server sprawl, by gaining control of multiple business users and pooling resources and buying resources more efficiently.
FlexCloud works on a micro-VM based unit as opposed to a full VM (virtual machine) unit which is how most virtualization is achieved today.The Micro Virtual Machine eliminates traditional constraints on resource deployment.Micro-VMs are dynamically allocated by the FlexCloud management system allowing VM headroom to be saved.
This example illustrates how the server optimizations is accomplished.FlexCloud provides true consumption based model across pooled resources. Other providers offering consumption based models, charge on usage of a single VM.
These graphs help illustrate how the cost savings are realized between the traditional VM an the micro-VM.In this example the red line represents a month of compute resources required, and the graph on left shows the subscription level that this business must commit to cover their estimated peak consumption on a monthly basis. They pay for unconsumed resources.The FlexCloud example on the right shows how the same business with same consumption is able to save money with a FlexCloud service.With the help from an EarthLink FlexCloud Assessment, a baseline of committed resources is established and the business pays for usage above commit on a 95 percentile basis. So in this example the savings is reflected by the difference between the blue line and yellow line.The FlexCloud Assessment is an SE Led AssessmentSpreadsheet based toolGather server list of applications and server configurationsEnter data into spreadsheet toolTool calculates the estimated minimum number of Micro-VM required for the environmentEnables you to determine the potential savings of a FlexCloud deploymentOn-demand computing with bursting capabilitiesBursting at 20% above baseline – capped to allow overage on demand, but avoid runaway chargesHigher bursting caps available as requestedBilling for burst rates at 95th percentile over 30 day period
Create separate public and private environmentsSecurity segmentation of Public/Private VMs and networksPhysical and logical separationIsolation of private workloads with customizable security settingsLocal VPNs for controlled communications between VMs Data Center FirewallDedicated firewall on carrier-class multi-tenant hardware platformProtect your hosted services from both inbound and outbound security threatsNATing of IP addresses to your internal networks 24/7/365 monitoring and protection services from the latest vulnerabilitiesDocumented policy change requests and approvals to ensure that the appropriate policies are applied and enforced
Network security and reliability is our top priority within our SSAE 16 SOC2 certified Data Centers. That's why our Bronze level of management is automatically included with EarthLink FlexCloud Hosting. You can gain increased levels of support by choosing to upgrade your services to the Silver, Gold or Platinum support packages. The four levels of managed support increasingly offloads the burden from your IT team in running your servers and operating systems - giving you greater security and reliability. Let our certified server engineers manage your hardware, OS and IT infrastructure, so you can reduce costs and focus on optimizing your core business
The Earthlink Next Generation Cloud is a state-of-the-art, integrated computing and storage cloud architecture platform designed to support current and future demands of the IT Services business. EarthLink is using industry leading technology platforms to provide comprehensive IT solutions. VMware:vCloud Powered Provider – Running VMware 5.1 CommVault: Enterprise level backup – fully managed, High speed, fully redundant, enterprise grade storage platforms, enhanced data de-duplication to minimize storage footprint Trend Micro Antivirus: Agentless data protection for your cloud environment Nimsoft monitoring: Proactive monitoring of applications, websites and cloud services Fortinet Data Center Firewall: Complete content protection and Unified threat management NetApp storage: High speed, fully redundant, enterprise grade storage platforms Fortinet Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IPS):Threat monitoring & protection on all incoming traffic Cisco: High availability routing and switching
FlexCloud Hosting will initially be available at two EarthLink next generation cloud capable datacenters (Rochester, Dallas)EarthLink has Next Generation Cloud Platforms deployed nationwide to provide better performance for latency sensitive applications and improved diversity for business continuity purposes. Businesses nationwide can now leverage the Earthlink private MPLS network to connect their locations to their business applications and systems located in these data centers.
EarthLink’s team of IT Solution Consultants are engaged in the design of every Cloud Hosting solution, and every customer’s Cloud Hosting solution is custom designed to meet your unique requirements. You purchase only what you need and can quickly scale as the business requirements grow.CommVault Enterprise Backup:CommVault is industry leader provider Weekly full backups, daily incremental backupsStandard 2 week retention of backupsCustom retention available on requestDisaster Recovery:Mirrored in second EarthLink Data CenterSAN based replication across Data Centers Includes Virtual Machine metadata to enable SLAs for recoveryFull environment available with RTO of 4 hours after failover initiationYou select the OS (operating system) that you want, Windows, Linus or Solaris.You specify the number of Micro-VMs requiredand the amount SAN storage and backup.EarthLink Cloud Hosting provides redundant high availability firewall protection, N+1 architecture and automatic failovers to keep your Cloud up and running.You maintain complete control over your Cloud with a myLink Administrator portal that lets you scale real-time to meet rapidly changing business needs.EarthLink Data Centers are SSAE SOC2 certifiedand staffed with certified security professionals 7/24/365. (CISSP & CISA) EarthLink is a VMware vCloud Powered service provider, and that means seamless interoperability with any other VMware cloud. VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure serving more than 400,000 business worldwide.EarthLink Cloud Hosting Earned the 2013 Cloud Computing Excellence Award from Cloud Computing magazine.
I’d like to summarize the following key benefits.
We appreciate your interest and hope this has been helpful to you. We’ll just quickly summarize a few of the reasons we’re excited about FlexCloud Hosting, and anxious to help you:The EarthLink Business approach to cloud hosting offers you an infrastructure that:Works with your current infrastructure, policies, and management practicesRemains flexible and secure across your own resources and your new cloud infrastructureCan be implemented incrementally, at modest costStays aligned to your business and IT practices as they grow and changeMeets your business requirements, and doesn’t impose constraints and practices that aren’t compatible with your goals