The document discusses challenges facing IT infrastructure in 2008, including the need for flexible and rapidly adaptable infrastructure to keep up with business changes. It notes that fundamental changes are occurring in how networked applications are constructed and delivered. Virtualization provides an abstraction layer that enables flexible and dynamic behavior. The document also discusses specific technologies like thin provisioning, deduplication, and virtual software appliances. It provides statistics on typical storage ratios and server virtualization adoption in Israel.

1. 2008 Infrastructure Challenges Pini Cohen EVP & Senior Analyst Architecture & Infrastructure Strategies [email_address]

6. STKI IT Model All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 7907000 www.stki.info

7. The Infrastructure Manager Radar Interest using Implementing VTL DeDuplication CDP Different storage tiers Email Archiving File Archiving - HSM DBMS on NAS Laptop Backup SATA Object Storage Basic Snapshots Snapshots for Exchange, DBMS , etc. Solid state Drives All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 7907000 www.stki.info Storage Compression

8. Storage Size and Growth in Selected Industries All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 7907000 www.stki.info Industry 2007 Size Planned Growth Defense 500TB-1000TB 30%- 50% Finance 80TB-250TB 30% - 50% Health 20TB-180TB 60%-100% Manufacturing – Retail 20TB-30TB 20%-50% Telco 800TB-1.5 PETA 30% Governmental 5TB-15TB 25%-100% High Tech 30TB-100TB 20%-30%

10. How De-Duplication Works: Compares latest backup data to stored data None, only pointers to previous data Source (with STKI modification) : Sepaton http://www.go-dpa.com/media/TSM_Webinar.ppt All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 7907000 www.stki.info Current Data New Data Stored Previously Stored Data Eliminates duplicate data within Exchange, Oracle ® and Microsoft ® SQL databases Eliminates storage of unchanged portions of files Eliminates storage of duplicate files ( single Instance )

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15. The Infrastructure Manager Radar Interest using Implementing Virtualization in Production Linux for important systems Linux for critical systems Grid for industrial Specific applications Dealing with MF skills issue Windows Server 2008 64 migration for windows servers Exchange 2007 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 7907000 www.stki.info

19. Virtual Software Appliances : Configuration and Lifecycle Management Developer VSA Engineer Deployer Datacenter Vendor Environment Customer Environment Application Structure Logical Topology Virtual Software Resources (VSR) Deployed, configured and running instance of VSA VSA Factory VSA Repository Register Internet Virtual Software Appliance (VSA) Source: IBM research.ihost.com/mw07/MiddlewareKeyNote_4.ppt All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 7907000 www.stki.info VSA Repository VSR Registry VSR VSR VSR VSA Deployment Manager VSA VSA VSA VSA VSA VSA

22. Thank you for your assistance in this research Pini Cohen EVP & Senior Analyst Architecture & Infrastructure Strategies [email_address]