The document discusses infrastructure scenarios and considerations for 2009. It presents a technology maturity model for key infrastructure areas like storage, servers, end point devices, middleware, and systems management. It also discusses issues to consider when trying to reduce IT costs, such as server consolidation, virtualization, open source solutions, and vendor management. The overall message is that organizations need to balance mature and new technologies while reducing the number of technologies, processes, and costs.

1. Pini Cohen VP & Senior Analyst http://pinicohenstki.blogspot.com/ All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 7907000 www.stki.info What’s next? Infrastructure scenarios 2009

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4. Ensemble PaaS Ensemble Iaas All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +09-7907000 www.stki.info 1 2 Infrastructure Agility and Trends 2.a 2.b 3 Presentation Agenda Technology Maturity Model 2009 Ensembles : 4 Important infra areas and considerations for 2009

5. Scenario: Adapting in Healthy Ways, Rather Than Fixating Adaptive organizations have a core foundation of values and principles that keep them from chasing their tails every time tactical winds blow Risk and Transformation Speed Quality Cost

6. Agility attributes Economic agility Technology agility Infrastructure Architecture Application portfolio Human resource agility Operational agility Process agility Strategic agility Organizational, innovational, and learning agility Agility Attributes of the Adaptive Organization Human Resource Agility Technology Agility Economic Agility Strategic Agility Process Agility Adaptive IT Organ- ization Organization Innovative Learning Agility Operational Agility

7. What Are the Benefits of a Ensemble Infrastructure? Technology reuse Pattern blueprints: Architecture, technology, product, configuration Technical services: Actual implementations IT Process reuse Pattern matching Service support Predictive costing Experience gained: Good and bad practices People reuse Fewer technology skills specific to the pattern More common roles focused in fewer service areas Ensemble People Technology Process P 3 P 1 P 8 P 7 J 1 J 2 J 4 J 6 T 1 T 2 T 3 T 7 T 4 T 8 T 5 T 6 T 2 T 3 T 1 J 1 J 2 J 8 J 3 J 7 J 5 J 4 J 6 P 3 P 2 P 8 P 5 P 6 P 4 P 1 P 7 Today : Too many technologies, too many processes , not enough people

8. Example Ensemble Service: Identity Infrastructure Service Name: Identity infrastructure service Owner: Bob Smith, architect Description Providing user identity information (attributes), including authentication credentials and related SSO services; also offers Web URL permissions Use case Direct use by application (LDAP) Indirect use via Web server (with attribute passing in headers) Direct use by application (security APIs) Service-level matches + Scalability (over 500 users, etc.) + Scale incrementally using replicas – Direct application support Pricing “ Included” in e-business costs Examples MSFT Active Directory (NOS file and print) MSFT Passport online service Principles Simple authentication is usually enough Replication to scale (mostly read-only) Component and service manifest API: LDAP, Web server exits, proprietary Presentation: NA Application server: NA (see Web SSO) Integration: Metadirectory utilities Database: iPlanet Directory Server Server HW/OS: Sun Solaris on SPARC … Storage: EMC SAN Network: NA Security: Netegrity SiteMinder Web SSO Management: Delegated admin, … Maturity Installed since 2001 with all customer names Used by X, Y, Z apps now

9. Amazon EC2 Source: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing

10. Mosso - Cloud Files 1 TB = 4K$~ per year

11. Microsoft Azure – SaaS and PaaS

12. Cloud ROI- example Problem 17K pages of Hillary Clinton’s White House schedule published as unsearchable PDF Convert images into searchable text and deliver them within the same day news cycle Insufficient internal IT resources Solution Host user-provided OCR tools on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Service Acquire needed compute time using Amazon’s pay- as-you-go pricing Result Conversion completed in 9 Hours on 200 virtual processors Used 1,407 hours of virtual machine time for a final expense of $144.62 Source: http://www.dla.mil/j-6/dlmso/elibrary/documents/COIForum08/DealingWithLargeData_COI_Forum_Oct08.pdf

13. From non-discretionary to discretionary

14. Technologies Maturity Model 2009 - Storage All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +09-7907000 www.stki.info Investment to make money Cut costs, Increase productivity Investment for regulations Commodity IT Services Using Implementing Looking Business Value Pure Business Project IT Project Size of figure = complexity/ cost of project Dedup for Backup NAS and SAN Green Storage Flash Drives FC over Ethernet Thin Provisioning Sophisticated snaps for creating environments CDP Email Archiving Storage Virtualization Cloud Storage Too many “needed technologies”. Not enough people+ huge storage growth

15. Technologies Maturity Model 2009 - Servers All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +09-7907000 www.stki.info Investment to make money Cut costs, Increase productivity Investment for regulations Commodity IT Services Using Implementing Looking Business Value Pure Business Project IT Project Size of figure = complexity/ cost of project Server Virtualization for Prod Win 2008 Server Linux Servers Server Unix\MF \Legacy consolidation Cloud Servers Mature technologies. Too many servers.

16. Technologies Maturity Model 2009 – End Point Devices All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +09-7907000 www.stki.info Investment to make money Cut costs, Increase productivity Investment for regulations Commodity IT Services Using Implementing Looking Business Value Pure Business Project IT Project Size of figure = complexity/ cost of project Traditional SBC for niche environment VDI Vista Windows 7 Office 2007 Mobile Devices New promising technologies maturing quickly. Mobile devices with huge memory\cpu will change everything Application virtualization

17. Technologies Maturity Model 2009 – Middleware and Development All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +09-7907000 www.stki.info Investment to make money Cut costs, Increase productivity Investment for regulations Commodity IT Services Using Implementing Looking Business Value Pure Business Project IT Project Size of figure = complexity/ cost of project EAI PaaS SOA Governance tools BPM Full SOA – Organization change Open Source ALM tools ETL SOA – Slowly. Agile, TDD, Open source, PMO vs. Technologies?! TDD GUI integration

18. Technologies Maturity Model 2009 – Enterprises System Management All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +09-7907000 www.stki.info Investment to make money Cut costs, Increase productivity Investment for regulations Commodity IT Services Using Implementing Looking Business Value Pure Business Project IT Project Size of figure = complexity/ cost of project System Management BSM CMDB – Basic –Automatic discovery CMDB with closed loop change management End User Experience RBA CMDB is very promising but requires cooperation of many IT departments Application Monitoring

19. Issues to consider when trying to reduce costs: Less technologies to take care of New technology ROI is tricky – the new technology can save money but it requires new processes, people, integration Open Source IaaS for: Peak time activities Backup Training and Development IT SaaS – Example ALM tools as Saas PaaS SBC (traditional & VDI) for remote locations

20. Issues to consider when trying to reduce costs: Operations Scorecards for better alignment Datacenter consolidation, Server Consolidation (to standard platforms) and Server Virtualization ITIL processes for change management If usage is tracked (both for HW and SW) users can decide if they want to stop maintenance or reduce SLA Asset management in general Storage read\write “snap on snap” for cost efficient environment creation Vendor and Contract management (STKI can help!)

21. Vendor Management with STKI help מוצר תחליפי ל - X הוא Y

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