Breakout session during Proact's SYNC 2013, 18 september 2013.
Software Defined Storage Clustered Data ONTAP: The Storage Hypervisor by Wessel Gans, NetApp
Ομιλία – Παρουσίαση: Katerina Nassou, HPE Pointnext Client Services
Τίτλος παρουσίασης: «Consumption based services to Accelerate your Digital Transformation»
Imagine an entire IT infrastructure controlled not by hands and hardware, but by software. One in which application workloads such as big data, analytics, simulation and design are serviced automatically by the most appropriate resource, whether running locally or in the cloud. A Software Defined Infrastructure enables your organization to deliver IT services in the most efficient way possible, optimizing resource utilization to accelerate time to results and reduce costs. It is the foundation for a fully integrated software defined environment, optimizing your compute, storage and networking infrastructure so you can quickly adapt to changing business requirements. A comprehensive portfolio of management tools dynamically manage workloads and data, transforming a static IT infrastructure into a workload- , resource- and data-aware environment.
Learn more: http://ibm.co/1wkoXtc
Watch the video presentation: http://insidehpc.com/2015/03/slidecast-software-defined-infrastructure/
Cloud Storage: Enabling The Dynamic DatacenterEntel
It talk about the business climate today and what we are seeing from an industry perspective, as well as what we’re hearing from our customers and partners in terms of what they need/want to do, what their challenges are, and their requirements to achieve their goals.
It talk about NetApp’s offerings for how we can help you evolve to a dynamic data center.
We’ll highlight some actual NetApp customer
Vendor Landscape Small to Midrange Storage ArraysNetApp
Review this InfoTech report that evaluates the latest storage array vendor landscape to help IT staff find the best match for their business and IT needs.
Addressing VMware Data Backup and Availability Challenges with IBM Spectrum P...Paula Koziol
Whether in the enterprise or small-to-medium sized firms, VMware IT administrators and storage management teams face an increasingly complex set of decisions when it comes to deploying, managing, protecting and supporting storage infrastructure. Hear about the emerging issues in the most rapidly changing part of the IT environment, virtual machine (VM) management and availability. Learn about IBM’s perspective on data availability and how it is addressing future challenges you may not even be thinking about today with the new, highly flexible IBM Spectrum Protect Plus VM backup and availability management solution.
Case Study: RagingWire and ITAU Discuss Converged Capacity Management as an I...CA Technologies
Delivering innovation back to the business can be a balancing act between performance, costs and risk. Without insight into the current utilization of data center resources, IT cannot predict the capacity needed to meet workload demands, leading to under/over provisioned environments, performance degradation and increased risks or over-provisioning. In this session you will learn how "Converged Capacity" provides the ability to analyze, plan and manage IT and data center capacity. Taking a converged capacity view makes it easy to evaluate the current state of capacity utilization and achieve data center efficiency across high-volume physical, virtual and cloud environments. See how one major co-lo and a large financial institution are solving their capacity management challenges with CA Technologies.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
Breakout session during Proact's SYNC 2013, 18 september 2013.
Software Defined Storage Clustered Data ONTAP: The Storage Hypervisor by Wessel Gans, NetApp
Ομιλία – Παρουσίαση: Katerina Nassou, HPE Pointnext Client Services
Τίτλος παρουσίασης: «Consumption based services to Accelerate your Digital Transformation»
Imagine an entire IT infrastructure controlled not by hands and hardware, but by software. One in which application workloads such as big data, analytics, simulation and design are serviced automatically by the most appropriate resource, whether running locally or in the cloud. A Software Defined Infrastructure enables your organization to deliver IT services in the most efficient way possible, optimizing resource utilization to accelerate time to results and reduce costs. It is the foundation for a fully integrated software defined environment, optimizing your compute, storage and networking infrastructure so you can quickly adapt to changing business requirements. A comprehensive portfolio of management tools dynamically manage workloads and data, transforming a static IT infrastructure into a workload- , resource- and data-aware environment.
Learn more: http://ibm.co/1wkoXtc
Watch the video presentation: http://insidehpc.com/2015/03/slidecast-software-defined-infrastructure/
Cloud Storage: Enabling The Dynamic DatacenterEntel
It talk about the business climate today and what we are seeing from an industry perspective, as well as what we’re hearing from our customers and partners in terms of what they need/want to do, what their challenges are, and their requirements to achieve their goals.
It talk about NetApp’s offerings for how we can help you evolve to a dynamic data center.
We’ll highlight some actual NetApp customer
Vendor Landscape Small to Midrange Storage ArraysNetApp
Review this InfoTech report that evaluates the latest storage array vendor landscape to help IT staff find the best match for their business and IT needs.
Addressing VMware Data Backup and Availability Challenges with IBM Spectrum P...Paula Koziol
Whether in the enterprise or small-to-medium sized firms, VMware IT administrators and storage management teams face an increasingly complex set of decisions when it comes to deploying, managing, protecting and supporting storage infrastructure. Hear about the emerging issues in the most rapidly changing part of the IT environment, virtual machine (VM) management and availability. Learn about IBM’s perspective on data availability and how it is addressing future challenges you may not even be thinking about today with the new, highly flexible IBM Spectrum Protect Plus VM backup and availability management solution.
Case Study: RagingWire and ITAU Discuss Converged Capacity Management as an I...CA Technologies
Delivering innovation back to the business can be a balancing act between performance, costs and risk. Without insight into the current utilization of data center resources, IT cannot predict the capacity needed to meet workload demands, leading to under/over provisioned environments, performance degradation and increased risks or over-provisioning. In this session you will learn how "Converged Capacity" provides the ability to analyze, plan and manage IT and data center capacity. Taking a converged capacity view makes it easy to evaluate the current state of capacity utilization and achieve data center efficiency across high-volume physical, virtual and cloud environments. See how one major co-lo and a large financial institution are solving their capacity management challenges with CA Technologies.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
Hybrid Cloud Journey - Maximizing Private and Public CloudRyan Lynn
This presentation walks through the elements of private and public cloud and how to start looking at use cases for hybrid cloud architectures. It covers benefits, statistics, trends and practical next steps for your hybrid cloud journey.
Live presentation of some of this content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5yJr0HKw4&t=13s
Designing Effective Storage Strategies to Meet Business NeedsEagle Technologies
In this presentation we present EAGLE's ideas on designing a modern tiered storage infrastructure. We will cover the basic strategies and requirements of tiers 1/2/3, object-based, cloud, and edge storage, along with the importance of categorizing data sets so that you can ultimately build a solid blueprint and business case. Other topics include transitioning to an effective tiered storage model, controlling storage growth, and emerging ideas and technologies for data storage.
Cloud computing environments offer benefits to business and IT departments that aren't easily gained through the use of traditional IT infrastructures. Here are five of the most common applications for cloud computing right now.
Giorgos Gerogiannis is Data Center & Cloud Solutions Manager at Uni Systems. He covered the topic of Business Continuity in the Cloud in the 1st Business Continuity Management Forum that took place in Athens, on February 18th, 2014
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We all have to backup data – but it’s often expensive and difficult, and the data we protect generally sits there doing absolutely nothing (unless you really need it). As IT environments change IBM believes that there needs to be a way to unlock value from your backup data. VM Admins, developers, application owners would love to be able to easily access their own backup data for a number of re-use purposes such as testing, development, reporting or analytics.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus can simplify the backup process whilst making data readily available for the people who really need it - addressing traditional backup needs such as compliance alongside modern data re-use and self service capabilities.
The more you use your data, the more valuable it is.
Extensibility: The Key To Managing Your Entire Cloud PortfolioDell World
As cloud adoption increases, cloud management becomes more and more of a challenge. No longer can you look at managing your clouds with a one-off management strategy. In this session, you will learn how forward-thinking organizations around the world are bringing cloud into their IT operations and integrating it with their existing tools, systems, and processes to simplify management for administrators and streamline provisioning for developers. We will discuss governance tools, like security systems and chargeback models, as well as policy tools, monitoring solutions, ITSM systems and more. Discover how applying an extensible management approach across all of your clouds, including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, can increase scale, availability and performance.
Cloud computing may be a confusing subject because of the number of different businesses offering what they call “cloud computing,” but it's not as complicated as it sounds. There are three types of cloud computing infrastructures, each with its own benefits.
Are you actively using or moving to Office 365, G-Suite, or other popular cloud applications? If so, how confident are you that you can keep all of that critical data protected? Attend this session to learn how Veritas can help protect data across all of your different cloud applications--using the same solution you use to protect your existing non-cloud applications. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the advantages of using one unified solution to protect all of your data--across all of your physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Presentation explaining how all companies can benefit from moving their applications onto the Windows Azure platform. Freeing up their IT function to truly add value rather than merely keeping the lights on.
January 2015 Webinar - Wins and Successes from 2014RapidScale
RapidScale shares some of its biggest cloud wins and successes from 2014. RapidScale identifies the core problems and presents a solution to see winning business results for businesses.
To make sound purchase decisions on cloud services it is absolutely essential to understand the service type to buy (IaaS, PaaS or SaaS) as decision criteria vary strongly. This slide deck allows you to identify the correct type and understand where to watch at.
These slides have been presented September 2015 at the ICS Cloud & Big Data conference @ Frankfurt.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
Hybrid Cloud Journey - Maximizing Private and Public CloudRyan Lynn
This presentation walks through the elements of private and public cloud and how to start looking at use cases for hybrid cloud architectures. It covers benefits, statistics, trends and practical next steps for your hybrid cloud journey.
Live presentation of some of this content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5yJr0HKw4&t=13s
Designing Effective Storage Strategies to Meet Business NeedsEagle Technologies
In this presentation we present EAGLE's ideas on designing a modern tiered storage infrastructure. We will cover the basic strategies and requirements of tiers 1/2/3, object-based, cloud, and edge storage, along with the importance of categorizing data sets so that you can ultimately build a solid blueprint and business case. Other topics include transitioning to an effective tiered storage model, controlling storage growth, and emerging ideas and technologies for data storage.
Cloud computing environments offer benefits to business and IT departments that aren't easily gained through the use of traditional IT infrastructures. Here are five of the most common applications for cloud computing right now.
Giorgos Gerogiannis is Data Center & Cloud Solutions Manager at Uni Systems. He covered the topic of Business Continuity in the Cloud in the 1st Business Continuity Management Forum that took place in Athens, on February 18th, 2014
Data Protection Modernization - Restore, Reuse, ReinventPaula Koziol
We all have to backup data – but it’s often expensive and difficult, and the data we protect generally sits there doing absolutely nothing (unless you really need it). As IT environments change IBM believes that there needs to be a way to unlock value from your backup data. VM Admins, developers, application owners would love to be able to easily access their own backup data for a number of re-use purposes such as testing, development, reporting or analytics.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus can simplify the backup process whilst making data readily available for the people who really need it - addressing traditional backup needs such as compliance alongside modern data re-use and self service capabilities.
The more you use your data, the more valuable it is.
Extensibility: The Key To Managing Your Entire Cloud PortfolioDell World
As cloud adoption increases, cloud management becomes more and more of a challenge. No longer can you look at managing your clouds with a one-off management strategy. In this session, you will learn how forward-thinking organizations around the world are bringing cloud into their IT operations and integrating it with their existing tools, systems, and processes to simplify management for administrators and streamline provisioning for developers. We will discuss governance tools, like security systems and chargeback models, as well as policy tools, monitoring solutions, ITSM systems and more. Discover how applying an extensible management approach across all of your clouds, including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, can increase scale, availability and performance.
Cloud computing may be a confusing subject because of the number of different businesses offering what they call “cloud computing,” but it's not as complicated as it sounds. There are three types of cloud computing infrastructures, each with its own benefits.
Are you actively using or moving to Office 365, G-Suite, or other popular cloud applications? If so, how confident are you that you can keep all of that critical data protected? Attend this session to learn how Veritas can help protect data across all of your different cloud applications--using the same solution you use to protect your existing non-cloud applications. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the advantages of using one unified solution to protect all of your data--across all of your physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Presentation explaining how all companies can benefit from moving their applications onto the Windows Azure platform. Freeing up their IT function to truly add value rather than merely keeping the lights on.
January 2015 Webinar - Wins and Successes from 2014RapidScale
RapidScale shares some of its biggest cloud wins and successes from 2014. RapidScale identifies the core problems and presents a solution to see winning business results for businesses.
To make sound purchase decisions on cloud services it is absolutely essential to understand the service type to buy (IaaS, PaaS or SaaS) as decision criteria vary strongly. This slide deck allows you to identify the correct type and understand where to watch at.
These slides have been presented September 2015 at the ICS Cloud & Big Data conference @ Frankfurt.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
Ensure Cloud Migration Success with Trusted DataPrecisely
Read any analyst report and you learn one thing –enterprises are migrating business data to the cloud. In working with our customers, we have found that data and analytics platforms built in the cloud are the foundation and accelerant for nearly every digital transformation strategy.
Our customers have told us that a significant pain point when moving to the cloud is their existing on-premises infrastructure. Many users struggle with integrating data from legacy on-premises systems due to complexity, unscalable infrastructure, and DevOps burdens.
View this on-demand webinar to explore how Precisely can support your organization in the transition to the cloud and ensure that moving from legacy systems to next-gen cloud platforms drives innovation, productivity, and business outcomes.
Ensure Cloud Migration Success with Trusted DataPrecisely
Read any analyst report and you learn one thing –enterprises are migrating business data to the cloud. In working with our customers, we have found that data and analytics platforms built in the cloud are the foundation and accelerant for nearly every digital transformation strategy.
Our customers have told us that a significant pain point when moving to the cloud is their existing on-premises infrastructure. Many users struggle with integrating data from legacy on-premises systems due to complexity, unscalable infrastructure, and DevOps burdens.
View this on-demand webinar to explore how Precisely can support your organization in the transition to the cloud and ensure that moving from legacy systems to next-gen cloud platforms drives innovation, productivity, and business outcomes.
Exploring the Applications of Cloud Computing in the IT Industry.pdfTechnoMark Solutions
Welcome to TechnoMark Solutions, a cutting-edge tech company that is revolutionizing the digital landscape one solution at a time. At TechnoMark, we specialize in providing innovative tech services to startups, tailored to their unique business requirements. With a commitment to excellence and innovation, TechnoMark Solutions is your trusted partner in building your brand from the ground up.
Make from your it department a competitive differentiator for your businessMarcos Quezada
IBM Systems, combining the strengths of IBM middleware and IBM hardware to create a resilient, modern enterprise infrastructure to make from your IT department a competitive differentiator for your business. Infrastructure Matters #ITMatters
RapidScale's CloudRecovery service is about planning and designing your business’ Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) around each application. We provide cost effective high density and low density storage and complete Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions for automatic failover.
Disaster Recovery as a Service works by first securely safeguarding your data in our Cloud. Our recovery and de-duplication testing allows us to have the fastest Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in the industry, Our Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions will secure your business data and ensure minimal downtime in the event of a disaster. Keep your business applications and data safe and accessible at all times with RapidScale's CloudRecovery.
RapidScale's Tier 3, Class 1 data centers feature on-premises security guards, an exterior security system, biometric systems, and continuous digital surveillance and recording. We meet and exceed standards such as HIPAA, PCI compliance, and the majority of other government security standards.
Replication to cloud virtual machines can be used to protect both cloud and on-premises production instances. In other words, replication is suitable for both cloud-VM-to-cloud-VM and on-premises-to-cloud-VM data protection. For applications that require aggressive RTO and recovery point objectives (RPOs), as well as application awareness, replication is the data movement option of choice.
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are expensive and inefficient. With the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, you do not need to let a low budget get in the way of safeguarding and recovering your data. You do not have to be an enterprise-size business to receive the cloud’s protection effectively.
RapidScale helps to eliminate upfront costs while saving money on pricey equipment and maintenance with CloudRecovery. With our pay-as-you-go plan, pay for what you use and experience a service that is scalable according to your needs.
RapidScale's CloudIntelligence team will listen to your business needs and design the right Disaster Recovery as a Service plan for your business. RapidScale offers a 100% uptime guarantee.
Our Cloud Recovery product set is backed by one of the most advanced Storage Area Network systems in the industry, NetApp. With its own proprietary file system and fiber channel network, our SAN’s offer some of the best performance and redundancy available. Our RAID configurations ensure a fault tolerance of no less than two disks which offers one of the highest levels of availability while still offering blazing performance. After failing over to the cloud, you will wonder why you hadn't migrated sooner.
Looking to the Future: Embracing the Cloud for a More Modern Data Quality App...Precisely
Data quality: it’s what we all strive for, and yet we don’t always have what we need to achieve it.
Embracing the cloud with a more holistic, yet simplified user experience will help you find exponential value in your data today – and plan for tomorrow. Join us to learn about a more modern approach that will empower your teams to more deeply understand, trust, and pro-actively address anomalies in your critical data.
Learn more about the value of next-generation cloud solutions that will power your organization into the future by joining us on September 22 where you will hear from Precisely’s Emily Washington, SVP of Product Management, Chuck Kane, VP of Product Management, and David Woods, SVP of Strategic Services. Be sure to bring your questions for our team of experts to the live Q&A session following their presentations and demos.
Most likely, your organization is not in the business of running data centers, yet a significant amount of time and money is spent doing just that. Amazon Web Services provides a way to acquire and use infrastructure on-demand, so that you pay only for what you consume. This puts more money back into the business, so that you can innovate more, expand faster, and be better positioned to take advantage of new opportunities.
In January of this year, Kyligence announced the immediate availability of Kyligence Cloud 4, the first fully cloud-native, distributed OLAP platform. During our announcement, EMA analyst John Santaferraro said:
“As the race for unified analytics heats up, Kyligence offers a solution that overcomes the challenges of querying data in both data lakes and data warehouses located both in the cloud and on premises.”
Join Li Kang - VP of North America at Kyligence - as he provides an overview of the Kyligence Cloud 4 release that will show:
--The new cloud native architecture that employs Apache Kylin, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet to ensure optimal performance.
--How KC4 delivers sub-second query responses on very large datasets using precomputed aggregate indexes (hyper-cubes) and table indexes.
--The AI-Augmented engine that intelligently organizes your data and reduces data modeling time from days/weeks to minutes.
In this presentation, we will present the Kyligence Cloud 4 story - high-speed analytics with unprecedented sub-second query response times against petabyte datasets.
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As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
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- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
2. Customer are now
accustomed to
paying for what they
use!
Industry Consolidation
Industry Disruption
Software-defined
Navigating the future
Major shifts
and disruption
in the storage
market
Cloud
Flash
Software
Defined
3. Complex
Takes time
Inefficient
Consumes
Resources
Restrictive
Not adaptable
22%
Server Utilization
50%
Storage Utilization
1According to IDG research, 2Gartner—Cisco IT. 2“Data Center Cost Portfolio”. 3Gartner - Reduce Costs and Extend the Life of Data Centers Using Server Refresh, March 2014. 4IBM Storage Infrastructure Optimization Studies
1 2
3 4
Where most businesses are today
4. Companies average
almost
5
Private and Public
clouds
80%of
companies moved
applications or data
from Public Cloud in
2018
IDC Survey
Reasons to
migrate from
public cloud
Security
Performance
Cost
Control
IDC Survey
Hybrid
Multicloud
is the platform
IDC; IBM IBV C-Suite Study; Rightscale
Source: IDC’s Cloud and AI Adoption Survey, January 2018
85% of companies operate
in a Hybrid multicloud environment
today
91% of public cloud
adopters use internal private cloud
5. Private cloud adoption
in North America
The cloud is
driving pay
as you grow
Today’s
Architecture
Starts
with Multicloud
in Mind
Extend data
across
infrastructures
Looking for
choice, control
and
consistency
Consistent data
access
True Private
Cloud
Private Clouds
that are as agile,
flexible and
cost effective
as Public
Clouds, that
seamlessly
extend to
leverage Public
Cloud
Infrastructure as
business
demands
Base: North American technology infrastructure decision-makers (1,000+
employees)
*Base: 301 North American technology infrastructure decision-makers whose firms
have implemented cloud (1,000+ employees)
Source: Forrestr’s Global Business Technographics Infrastructure Survey, 2016
6. IDC
FutureScape:
Worldwide
Datacenter
2019 Top 10
Predictions
Consumption-
Based IT. By 2023, 60%
of enterprises will
utilize flexible lower-
cost IT consumption
models that leverage
centralized IT asset
depots jointly run by
hardware suppliers and
colocation providers
Customers View of
Pay per Use:
• 63% of
enterprises said
flexible
payment
options are
important when
selecting an IT
Infrastructure
provider
• 57% would
remove
providers from
bid lists if they
did not offer a
pay per use
option
Source:
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Datacenter 2018 Predictions
IDC Enterprise Customers View of Pay per Use Offerings: IDC US#41673116
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7. IBM Storage Utility
Offering
– adding value
where it counts
IBM Storage Utility
Offering provides
business the ability to
pay for storage
capacity based on
actual monthly usage
• Ready capacity when
business dictates
• Pay for what’s used,
when used
• Flex-up and flex-down
monthly costs
• No disruptions during
growth spurts
• Powerful management
capabilities of Storage
Insight for predictability
and forward planning
• New lower entry price
for TS7760 Virtual Tape
Library for the
mainframe
* Assumes 42% average capacity utilization based on Industry data
Available for FlashSystem (9100, A9000, A9000R & 900),
Storwize (V5000 & V7000), Elastic Storage Server, Cloud
Object Storage, DS8000, TS7760, and HA solutions
8. IBM Storage
Utility Offering
leverages
IBM Storage
Insights
Primary use
cases
Holistic systems
monitoring for proactive
storage diagnostics
• Reduce downtime
with focus on time to
resolution
Storage systems
analytics
• Analytics data can
help reduce capacity
usage and costs!
Planning tools to
optimize storage
infrastructure
Enterprise-proven,
cognitive, cloud-
based, systems insight
platform
Storage Insights –
Manage and predict
data usage
Demo is available
here with an IBMid:
https://sidemo.ib.ibms
erviceengage.com/Gui
dedDemo/
9. Key benefits to you….
Commit to baseline capacity only
Storage if variable up and down only paying for what you
use above the baseline commitment
Starts as low as 30% of the total capacity on the floor
allowing for 70% to be paid for “cloud like” but on premise
Terms range from 3-5 years
No conditions placed on the variable
Baseline can be purchased as CAPEX or financed by IBM
The utility can be used on any of IBM’s storage technology
offerings
After the term end the entire system is owned by the you –
even if you have never used any of the variable
10. Growth
• Consistent growth with
unknown timing or
predictability
Aligned Costs
• Usage costs tied to
workload / LOB
depends
• Charge Back
Time to Delivery
• Reduced time to satisfy
capacity requirements
Move to OPEX
• Reduce CAPEX
• Deal with FASB
Test, Dev & QA
• Temporary
infrastructure
requirements
Shared Service
• Transform
infrastructure to support
as-a-service
• True Private Cloud
Security and Risk
• Cloud-like flexibility with
on-prem security
• Reduce risk associated
with add-ons & upgrades
Procurement
• Accelerate IT response
to business initiatives
What are the use cases and benefits?
11. IBM Storage
Utility
Offering
New IBM Storage
offering delivering
storage growth
with manageable
monthly pay as you
grow costs
Questions to
consider
• Is my data growing,
are my costs
predictable?
• Evaluating Cloud
storage solutions?
• Need flexibility and
economics of the
Cloud?
• However data must be
on-premises?
• Procurement cycle –
too long, too complex,
not aligned with
business?
• Always buying more to
meet seasonal data
requirements?
IBM’s Storage Utility
Offering -
Tie your capacity costs
to business initiatives
and buy storage your
way
12. With over 23 years experience at the cutting edge of data management, we have a host of certifications in
proven enterprise-class solutions and a customer list that spans industries and continents.
Our creds/expertise summary
155+ Customers managed
20+ Years experience
Over 132PB of data protected
2m+ systems monitored daily
UK & US
Strong Financials
ISO, PCI, CRB
Qualifications &
Certificates
IBM Storage
Certified Elite
Partner
IBM Beacon Award
Winner
Rocket Servergraph
Cloud Partner
Over 59 people
69% technical
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1st Floor, River Court
Old Mill Lane
Godalming
Surrey
GU7 1EZ
Tectrade US
1460 Broadway
New York, 10036
www.tectrade.com
Thank you
Editor's Notes
But why the shift, and why is it happening in the first place?
One of the key tenants that we have seen at IBM Storage are major shifts and disruptions in the overall market.
Some of these shifts are technology such as cloud and flash, others are market forces such as industry and business or end user consolidation. And when I refer to industry consolidation I don’t just mean disruptions of storage players such as the Dell/EMC merger which has been a huge disruptive force in the market but also at your level…the Enterprise business. You are seeing acquisitions everywhere you turn in almost every market segment. And this translates into new business challenges which can affect budgets…some for the good, and some for the bad. IBM’s Storage Utility Offering is one that helps out in the good!
IT typically spends around 73% of their budget on business as usual - just to keep the lights on.
This only allows for 27% of the budget for expenditures on innovation, which in todays environment is a recipe for failure.
This skewed allocation of IT budget can be traced to the high cost of IT complexity, inefficient consumption of resources and restrictive environments. Add in low server and storage utilization rates and you can see how IT is faced with serious challenges.
Shifting large up front costs to a more manageable and predictable monthly cost can be the difference between success and failure. Moving to a predictable monthly charge for data consumption could also save you millions over the life of your storage.
Paying only for what you use, but having the ability to scale up or down as business use dictates could be the step you need to take to unleash your companies full potential.
85% & 98% : IBM IBV c-Suite survey
Even with key management and technical building blocks in place, implementers of multicloud environments encounter several adoption challenges. Fifty-seven percent of all multicloud managers worry about security and compliance, and the same number report having concerns about governance and control. Fifty-six percent report managing and optimizing cloud costs as an additional hurdle.
4.8 Private and public cloud : RIGHTSCALE 2018 STATE OF THE CLOUD REPORT UNCOVERS CLOUD ADOPTION TRENDS
Hybrid multicloud is the Platform.
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The part that is growing is private cloud
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Gartner: Private Clouds are fastest growing…
The IBM Storage Utility Offering provides your business the ability to pay for storage capacity based on your actual monthly usage, which may increase or decrease monthly based on business requirements.
Designed to meet high or unpredictable rate of data growth with instant access to new capacity. Ideal for any business who can’t afford the time required to go through the procurement process each time they need to increase capacity. It is also ideal for businesses who don’t want to overbuy capacity for peak capacity seasonality.
The solution consists of 2 parts
Base Subscription: The customer commits to monthly $/TB/Month base subscription, typically 30-40% base commitment. Handled via a 36 month lease with IGF, or can be purchased up front.
Variable Utilized Capacity: The balance of capacity is averaged out over a month and then billed quarterly upon usage at a $/TB/month rate.
Solution: The fully loaded system (3 years of expected capacity) is delivered to the customer on day 1.
Customer provisions what they need when they need and consumes up and down. Array and solution comes complete with array controller software, drives, shelves, power and infrastructure if needed. Numerous configs including IBM ESS, A9000, A9000R, Storwize V7/V5K, FS900, Cloud Object Storage (on premises only) and DS8K.
For many of these solutions you gain extra availability in that the entire 3 years or contracted capacity is delivered on day 1, thus no disruption as added capacity is needed and you will also see a lower initial costs as larger drives may be used because we are delivering all of the capacity up front. So entry level price point to start is typically much lower than your standard 1 or 2 year purchase.
Solution Monitoring: IBM Spectrum Storage Insight is used to monitor capacity and report back consumption. Monthly average is then billed back quarterly. *Analytics for capacity planning included in upgraded IBM Spectrum Storage Insights PRO
What we would like to talk to you about today is IBM Storage Insights.
IBM Storage Insights, our Enterprise-proven, cognitive, cloud-based, systems insight platform.
We built this solution with the customer in mind. We built it hoping to help build a relationship that extended past our “storage” products, through our sales and technical sales iniatitives all the way to support.
We did this by building into the system:
Holistic system monitoring to always know what is going on with your storage
Cognitive system analytics – this is the ability to proactively tell you if your setup is meeting design best practices for the applications you have
Planning tools to help optimize your storage infrastructure
And proactive storage diagnostics that is focused on helping you reduce downtime and get your systems up and running quickly in the event of a failure
Solution Monitoring: Spectrum Control Storage Insight is used to monitor capacity and report back consumption. Monthly average is then billed back quarterly. Analytics for capacity planning included
Competitive insight
HPE Flexible Capacity
Customers commit to a minimum of resource consumption (typically 80% of requested capacity) based on expected near-term demand, and HPE installs equipment, incorporating a buffer of 10-40% beyond that request. Quarterly checkpoint with customer to determine additional needs
Additional capacity added as needed – (this is usually where disruption can happen)
Billed as a service from HPE Services
Dell EMC Flex on Demand, Flex Capacity
Leverage EMC Global Financial Services
“Hybrid financing/inventory procurement partnership”
Provides base capacity (via lease / purchase) and an additional “buffer” capacity to use when needed; buffer is only charged for upon use
Additional capacity added as needed – (this is usually where disruption can happen)
NetApp On Demand Advantage
Base capacity + additional pre-installed storage
Base Payments increase if increased use levels stabilize; buffer capacity is provided at no add’l cost to stay ahead of need and is then billed for based on usage.
Additional capacity added as needed – (this is usually where disruption can happen)
Hitachi Vantara Cloud-Storage/ on Demand
Initial baseline storage system that equates to monthly subscription payments
+ an “expansion reserve” is available to use if capacity increases, which gets billed monthly/quarterly based on a per GB per month fixed overage price.
If you need to increase base, your fixed monthly charge can increase to reflect new base subscription.
An exciting new IBM Storage offering for customers who require highly flexible storage and are also looking to dramatically reduce capital expenditures.
Questions you may ask yourself.
Is your data growing, sometimes unpredictably?
Are you evaluating Cloud type storage solutions?
Do you prefer the flexibility and economics of a Cloud model, but require your data to be on-prem?
Is moving your storage costs from large up front costs to more manageable more predictable monthly costs important to your business?
How long does it take for your business to procure added capacity?
Does it align with your business so that you react quickly to new market needs?
Do you have to overbuy to meet peak season data requirements? Yet need the ability to instantly grow up or down while being guaranteed that new capacity is immediately available for these peak or unforeseen requirements?
Do you simply want to just pay for what you use when you consume storage?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, IBM’s new Storage Utility Offering will provide unmatched business flexibility with predictable pricing.
