This document discusses how a professional services firm consolidated its Oracle E-Business Suite from 42 servers onto 4 IBM Power Systems servers to lower costs. It found that consolidating onto IBM Power Systems servers would save 58% or $5 million over 3 years compared to upgrading its existing Sun servers. Annual operating costs would be lowered by 30% or over $525,000 per year through server consolidation and financing the new hardware with IBM Global Finance. The primary savings came from lower server hardware, software, administration and energy costs through improved utilization by consolidating onto fewer, more powerful systems.
Energen achieved $500,000 in annual savings by migrating its Oracle and SAP software from 20 Sun servers to 2 IBM System p5 570 servers. This reduced hardware costs through lower Oracle licensing fees and consolidation. It also improved performance, cutting batch run times from 24 hours to 2 hours, and improved support with IBM's local presence. The migration virtualized the SAP environment using logical partitions, allowing systems to efficiently share resources.
This document summarizes a case study analyzing the energy efficiency, memory usage, and performance of IBM mainframe systems. The study consolidated 200 distributed servers running low-utilization workloads onto a single IBM z10 mainframe, reducing total power consumption by 43% and floorspace needs by 50%. It analyzed how memory and processor configurations on the z10 impact performance and power efficiency. The mainframe was found to be very energy efficient due to high consolidation capabilities and little additional power needed to increase utilization.
System z Technology Summit Streamlining UtilitiesSurekha Parekh
Most DB2 applications are global non-stop, requiring almost
100% accessibility. Availability demands reduce the amount
of time available to perform necessary routine tasks, such as
utility maintenance on the underlying data and objects stored
in DB2 for z/OS that support critical business applications. In
addition, companies are looking for ways to streamline DB2 utility
processing to maximize system and personnel resources. How
valuable would it be to maximize your use of IBM DB2 Utilities
Suite for z/OS for both DB2 9 and DB2 10? What if you could
establish DB2 utility practices at a company level and know
that they would be monitored and adhered to? Do you want
to reduce your batch window during utility sort processing to
improve availability and performance? How important would it
be to run utilities only on objects when and if it’s necessary?
The answers to these questions and more will be revealed in
this session.
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is the core business application for every company, covering a multitude of different business functions. This applies to both landscapes for large enterprise companies as well as for midsize companies with constrained IT resources. For midsize companies in particular, finding a platform that offers good performance...
IBM Power Systems is designed for business. Major releases in the Power Systems era include IBM i 6.1, which introduced foundations for the future like solid state drive support, a Java virtual machine, and Systems Director Navigator. IBM i 6.1 also improved Java and WebSphere performance by up to 78% compared to prior releases. Customers saw benefits from migrating to newer Power Systems servers running IBM i, like reduced costs, improved reliability, and being positioned for growth.
IBM Power Event, Keynote Presentation Doug DavisIBM Danmark
IBM Power Systems are designed to deliver services faster with higher quality and superior economics. Power Systems are performance redefined and tuned for data-intensive workloads. They scale quickly and efficiently, optimize workload performance, flexibly allocate resources, avoid downtime, and save energy through smarter computing technologies.
Learn about IBM PureFlex System: The Future of Data center Management.The ‘Expert Integrated System’ delivers a combination of hardware, software and built-in expertise that makes implementing and applying the power of computing simpler, easier, faster and more effective than ever before.For more information, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
Deliver Value with Autonomy-iManage WorkSite In Todays Economy Road Show 2009...Peter Buck
Baker Robbins & Company and Traveling Coaches, Inc. describe how to increase the effectiveness of your iManage WorkSite environment to manage the electronic client file in current economic times.
Energen achieved $500,000 in annual savings by migrating its Oracle and SAP software from 20 Sun servers to 2 IBM System p5 570 servers. This reduced hardware costs through lower Oracle licensing fees and consolidation. It also improved performance, cutting batch run times from 24 hours to 2 hours, and improved support with IBM's local presence. The migration virtualized the SAP environment using logical partitions, allowing systems to efficiently share resources.
This document summarizes a case study analyzing the energy efficiency, memory usage, and performance of IBM mainframe systems. The study consolidated 200 distributed servers running low-utilization workloads onto a single IBM z10 mainframe, reducing total power consumption by 43% and floorspace needs by 50%. It analyzed how memory and processor configurations on the z10 impact performance and power efficiency. The mainframe was found to be very energy efficient due to high consolidation capabilities and little additional power needed to increase utilization.
System z Technology Summit Streamlining UtilitiesSurekha Parekh
Most DB2 applications are global non-stop, requiring almost
100% accessibility. Availability demands reduce the amount
of time available to perform necessary routine tasks, such as
utility maintenance on the underlying data and objects stored
in DB2 for z/OS that support critical business applications. In
addition, companies are looking for ways to streamline DB2 utility
processing to maximize system and personnel resources. How
valuable would it be to maximize your use of IBM DB2 Utilities
Suite for z/OS for both DB2 9 and DB2 10? What if you could
establish DB2 utility practices at a company level and know
that they would be monitored and adhered to? Do you want
to reduce your batch window during utility sort processing to
improve availability and performance? How important would it
be to run utilities only on objects when and if it’s necessary?
The answers to these questions and more will be revealed in
this session.
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is the core business application for every company, covering a multitude of different business functions. This applies to both landscapes for large enterprise companies as well as for midsize companies with constrained IT resources. For midsize companies in particular, finding a platform that offers good performance...
IBM Power Systems is designed for business. Major releases in the Power Systems era include IBM i 6.1, which introduced foundations for the future like solid state drive support, a Java virtual machine, and Systems Director Navigator. IBM i 6.1 also improved Java and WebSphere performance by up to 78% compared to prior releases. Customers saw benefits from migrating to newer Power Systems servers running IBM i, like reduced costs, improved reliability, and being positioned for growth.
IBM Power Event, Keynote Presentation Doug DavisIBM Danmark
IBM Power Systems are designed to deliver services faster with higher quality and superior economics. Power Systems are performance redefined and tuned for data-intensive workloads. They scale quickly and efficiently, optimize workload performance, flexibly allocate resources, avoid downtime, and save energy through smarter computing technologies.
Learn about IBM PureFlex System: The Future of Data center Management.The ‘Expert Integrated System’ delivers a combination of hardware, software and built-in expertise that makes implementing and applying the power of computing simpler, easier, faster and more effective than ever before.For more information, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
Deliver Value with Autonomy-iManage WorkSite In Todays Economy Road Show 2009...Peter Buck
Baker Robbins & Company and Traveling Coaches, Inc. describe how to increase the effectiveness of your iManage WorkSite environment to manage the electronic client file in current economic times.
The document provides an introduction to IBM's DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE). It outlines several key features included in AESE such as compression, workload management tools, federation support between DB2 and Oracle databases, high availability options including Q-Replication, and label-based access control security. Pricing and packaging information is also presented, showing AESE is priced at $450 per Value Unit and includes many features that were previously priced separately or only available in higher editions of DB2.
Whitepaper Server Virtualisation And Storage ManagementAlan McSweeney
This document discusses how optimizing storage management can provide greater benefits from server virtualization. It describes how implementing server virtualization using technologies like VMware can improve server utilization, provisioning times, resilience, and costs. However, additional planning and investment in storage is needed to fully realize benefits like faster backup and recovery, application protection, and business continuity. Features of the IBM N Series storage system like FlexVol, FlexClone, snapshots, SnapMirror, and RAID Double Parity make it well-suited for virtualized server environments by providing high performance, instant backups, thin provisioning, disaster recovery, flexibility and efficient virtual machine cloning.
The document discusses new features and enhancements in Oracle Compensation Workbench (CWB) Release 12 and Oracle Advanced Benefits (OAB) Release 12. For CWB, key enhancements include allowing administrators to view compensation detail reports without changing responsibilities, providing plan access based on responsibilities, reducing post processing between business organizations, and performing dynamic calculations in multiple columns. For OAB, enhancements focus on reopening life events, modifying open enrollment windows, tracking ineligible rows, and adding parameters to fast formulas. The presentation concludes with a question and answer section.
Jeremy Chapman discusses strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to providing access to Office applications and files from different devices. Remote access options like Office Web Apps and platform-specific apps allow access from any device but with less functionality. Locally installed options have full functionality but require managed, trusted devices. Identity-based protection and rights management can help secure access and limit data sharing based on device trust levels. There is no single best solution, and security involves balancing access with manageability.
Managing power in the datacenter can be a good strategy to reduce power and cooling overheard while allowing servers operate at the most efficient power levels and do as much work as possible within your specific power policies.
We found that using Intel Node Manager to set power limits on servers running various workloads increased performance per watt by up to 42.8 percent compared to running the same workloads with no power management solution.
Learn about Virtualization Performance on the IBM PureFlex System. the white paper shows that the IBM PureFlex system can deliver VM consolidation in a heterogeneous, self-contained environment capable of impressive levels of throughput performance. It can dramatically reduce time to production for virtualized data center application operations, providing multiple compute and operating system platforms, advanced storage, and integrated networking in a single manageable system.
Whitepaper Exchange 2007 Changes, Resilience And Storage ManagementAlan McSweeney
This document discusses how the IBM N Series storage system can provide resilient storage management for Exchange 2007 mail systems. Key features of the N Series include SnapMirror for disaster recovery, SnapManager for backups, and single mailbox recovery. These features help optimize Exchange storage, improve resilience against failures, and simplify management of mail data.
The document outlines a strategy called "Energy Logic" proposed by Emerson Network Power to reduce energy consumption in data centers. It identifies 10 strategies that can be implemented sequentially, starting at the IT equipment level and moving through supporting infrastructure. Implementing the strategies in order provides cascading energy savings without compromising availability or flexibility. The strategies include using more efficient processors, power supplies, server virtualization, optimized cooling practices, variable capacity cooling, and infrastructure monitoring. Applying all 10 strategies could potentially reduce total energy consumption in the modeled 5,000 square foot data center by over 50%.
IBM PureFlex System, an expert integrated system, offers a cloud-enabled integrated server, storage, and networking platform that delivers intelligent workload deployment and scalable IT resource pools. This IBM Redpaper describes disaster recovery strategies in the PureFlex System private cloud environment that is built with IBM SmartCloud Entry running on IBM x86 and IBM POWER compute nodes. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
SAP is the world’s leading ERP vendor, its soft ware lies at the core of tens of thousands of organizations. This
paper describes how a number of companies have chosen to make use of IBM’s high-end server technology as
a means to consolidate their SAP landscapes into a single environment, and the benefits in terms of reliability,
performance, agility and cost-reduction they've gained by doing so. IBM’s z Enterprise platform can be used either
as a scale up platform (in which workload is all run on the same server machine) or at the heart of a scale out
environment in which workload can be partitioned between the scale-up server and an integrated blade
environment in which AIX, Linux and Windows blades can be run and managed.
Learn about IBM Flex System: A Solid Foundation for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. IBM builds, tests, and publishes reference configurations and performance metrics to provide clients with guidelines for sizing their Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments. This document highlights the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node and IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node and how they can be used as the foundation for your Exchange 2010 infrastructure. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Why Alinean? Profile by SiriusDecisionsAlinean, Inc.
Alinean, the leading provider of dynamic sales and marketing tools, empowers B2B vendors to better sell to today's economic-focused buyer via Alinean-powered interactive white papers, assessments, ROI calculators and TCO comparison tools.
Increase content marketing effectiveness via Content Marketing Assessment ToolsAlinean, Inc.
Do you ever wonder whether your current B2B content marketing investments are optimized and how these efforts compare to your peers and best practice leaders?
The document describes the features and capabilities of the Alinean ValueStory Player, which allows users to create and deliver customized presentations and reports. It allows specifying company profiles, selecting roles to communicate value to different buyers, challenging status quos, exploring challenges in detail across chapters, and quantifying costs and benefits. It also supports collaboration, brainstorming, self-discovery, and review/printing of customized reports. Example benefits achieved by one company using it include increased bookings, adoption, reduced ramp up times, and accelerated decisions.
A sales team has been struggling to make quota for some time, but now has an exciting new opportunity. Three new prospects have been identified, and are anxious to engage. The team divvies up the opportunities and goes to work pitching the buyers.
Will the team achieve success and get the deals, or start the year off on the wrong foot?
In this webinar we hear their story and learn their fate.
Join Alinean’s Chairman and Founder Tom Pisello, the ROI Guy, as he recounts the tale, in this entertaining and educational webcast designed for sales leadership and enablement professionals.
Demand Generation Tools Webcast: Drive more leads with Alinean value-marketin...Alinean, Inc.
Generate more demand.
- Personalize to connect better with overloaded / skeptical buyers
- Engage better with diagnosis and value quantification
- Drive 50% more leads than traditional content marketing
- More quickly advance prospects through buying lifecycle
- Double number of visitor to buyer conversions
Sound impossible?
It's not with Alinean Demand-Gen Tools.
Introducing the Alinean Social Media ROI CalculatorAlinean, Inc.
Marketers are investing more and more in social media efforts, with significant 40% or more annual increases predicted by several market research firms over the next year. To validate the significant spending growth, marketers also understand that you must make an effort to deliver social media results and success, but what investments are required, and how much effort needs to be expended to deliver specific results?
Webcast: Optimize Your Content Marketing to Facilitate the Buyer's JourneyAlinean, Inc.
Although research indicates a significant 26% of annual marketing budgets are allocated to content marketing, only 41% find that the efforts are effective.
Why the crisis in confidence and how can you insure that your content marketing investments are effective?
This webinar, conducted by Tom Pisello, the ROI Guy & Chairman/Founder of Alinean, will discuss the latest content marketing research and the significance it has on setting your budget, driving strategy and tactics and optimizing return on investment.
Interactive White Paper Webcast: Increase content marketing effectivenessAlinean, Inc.
White papers remain the most important content to help buyers make purchase decisions – helping buyers to understand opportunities, understand solution options and understand the competitive differences of your solution vs. others.
However, in today's world of information overload, white paper download rates have declined, and your investment in traditional white paper marketing campaigns is not as effective as it used to be.
Webcast: How to improve sales tool adoptionAlinean, Inc.
The document discusses 10 ways to improve sales tool adoption. It suggests providing introductory training, briefs in sales communications, sales portals, roadshow trainings, and interactive coaching to educate salespeople. It also recommends offering incentives for using the tools by highlighting how they can reduce sales cycles, increase deal sizes and win rates. The document advises aligning the tools with salespeople's workflows by integrating them into CRMs and sales playbooks. It notes that continuous reinforcement is needed due to sales turnover and short attention spans.
Storwize V7000 Solution Tco White Paper AlineanSuzyIBM
The document provides a three year total cost of ownership analysis comparing the IBM Storwize V7000 storage solution to a competitive solution. It finds that the Storwize V7000 can reduce hardware, software, maintenance and support costs by 30-65% through features like virtualization, thin provisioning, and integrated storage management software. Over three years, the Storwize V7000 is projected to save over $218,000, representing a 45% reduction in total storage costs.
Sales Enablement Tools Webcast: Make sales more effective with Alinean value-...Alinean, Inc.
Empower your Sales Team to fight Frugalnomics.
- Engage higher, with economic-focused executives
- Elevate relationship from salesperson to trusted advisor
- Increase deal size / reduce discounting by 20%
- Accelerate sales cycles by 20-30%
- Double competitive wins
Sound impossible?
It's not with Alinean Sales Enablement Tools.
The document provides an introduction to IBM's DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE). It outlines several key features included in AESE such as compression, workload management tools, federation support between DB2 and Oracle databases, high availability options including Q-Replication, and label-based access control security. Pricing and packaging information is also presented, showing AESE is priced at $450 per Value Unit and includes many features that were previously priced separately or only available in higher editions of DB2.
Whitepaper Server Virtualisation And Storage ManagementAlan McSweeney
This document discusses how optimizing storage management can provide greater benefits from server virtualization. It describes how implementing server virtualization using technologies like VMware can improve server utilization, provisioning times, resilience, and costs. However, additional planning and investment in storage is needed to fully realize benefits like faster backup and recovery, application protection, and business continuity. Features of the IBM N Series storage system like FlexVol, FlexClone, snapshots, SnapMirror, and RAID Double Parity make it well-suited for virtualized server environments by providing high performance, instant backups, thin provisioning, disaster recovery, flexibility and efficient virtual machine cloning.
The document discusses new features and enhancements in Oracle Compensation Workbench (CWB) Release 12 and Oracle Advanced Benefits (OAB) Release 12. For CWB, key enhancements include allowing administrators to view compensation detail reports without changing responsibilities, providing plan access based on responsibilities, reducing post processing between business organizations, and performing dynamic calculations in multiple columns. For OAB, enhancements focus on reopening life events, modifying open enrollment windows, tracking ineligible rows, and adding parameters to fast formulas. The presentation concludes with a question and answer section.
Jeremy Chapman discusses strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to providing access to Office applications and files from different devices. Remote access options like Office Web Apps and platform-specific apps allow access from any device but with less functionality. Locally installed options have full functionality but require managed, trusted devices. Identity-based protection and rights management can help secure access and limit data sharing based on device trust levels. There is no single best solution, and security involves balancing access with manageability.
Managing power in the datacenter can be a good strategy to reduce power and cooling overheard while allowing servers operate at the most efficient power levels and do as much work as possible within your specific power policies.
We found that using Intel Node Manager to set power limits on servers running various workloads increased performance per watt by up to 42.8 percent compared to running the same workloads with no power management solution.
Learn about Virtualization Performance on the IBM PureFlex System. the white paper shows that the IBM PureFlex system can deliver VM consolidation in a heterogeneous, self-contained environment capable of impressive levels of throughput performance. It can dramatically reduce time to production for virtualized data center application operations, providing multiple compute and operating system platforms, advanced storage, and integrated networking in a single manageable system.
Whitepaper Exchange 2007 Changes, Resilience And Storage ManagementAlan McSweeney
This document discusses how the IBM N Series storage system can provide resilient storage management for Exchange 2007 mail systems. Key features of the N Series include SnapMirror for disaster recovery, SnapManager for backups, and single mailbox recovery. These features help optimize Exchange storage, improve resilience against failures, and simplify management of mail data.
The document outlines a strategy called "Energy Logic" proposed by Emerson Network Power to reduce energy consumption in data centers. It identifies 10 strategies that can be implemented sequentially, starting at the IT equipment level and moving through supporting infrastructure. Implementing the strategies in order provides cascading energy savings without compromising availability or flexibility. The strategies include using more efficient processors, power supplies, server virtualization, optimized cooling practices, variable capacity cooling, and infrastructure monitoring. Applying all 10 strategies could potentially reduce total energy consumption in the modeled 5,000 square foot data center by over 50%.
IBM PureFlex System, an expert integrated system, offers a cloud-enabled integrated server, storage, and networking platform that delivers intelligent workload deployment and scalable IT resource pools. This IBM Redpaper describes disaster recovery strategies in the PureFlex System private cloud environment that is built with IBM SmartCloud Entry running on IBM x86 and IBM POWER compute nodes. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
SAP is the world’s leading ERP vendor, its soft ware lies at the core of tens of thousands of organizations. This
paper describes how a number of companies have chosen to make use of IBM’s high-end server technology as
a means to consolidate their SAP landscapes into a single environment, and the benefits in terms of reliability,
performance, agility and cost-reduction they've gained by doing so. IBM’s z Enterprise platform can be used either
as a scale up platform (in which workload is all run on the same server machine) or at the heart of a scale out
environment in which workload can be partitioned between the scale-up server and an integrated blade
environment in which AIX, Linux and Windows blades can be run and managed.
Learn about IBM Flex System: A Solid Foundation for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. IBM builds, tests, and publishes reference configurations and performance metrics to provide clients with guidelines for sizing their Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments. This document highlights the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node and IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node and how they can be used as the foundation for your Exchange 2010 infrastructure. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Why Alinean? Profile by SiriusDecisionsAlinean, Inc.
Alinean, the leading provider of dynamic sales and marketing tools, empowers B2B vendors to better sell to today's economic-focused buyer via Alinean-powered interactive white papers, assessments, ROI calculators and TCO comparison tools.
Increase content marketing effectiveness via Content Marketing Assessment ToolsAlinean, Inc.
Do you ever wonder whether your current B2B content marketing investments are optimized and how these efforts compare to your peers and best practice leaders?
The document describes the features and capabilities of the Alinean ValueStory Player, which allows users to create and deliver customized presentations and reports. It allows specifying company profiles, selecting roles to communicate value to different buyers, challenging status quos, exploring challenges in detail across chapters, and quantifying costs and benefits. It also supports collaboration, brainstorming, self-discovery, and review/printing of customized reports. Example benefits achieved by one company using it include increased bookings, adoption, reduced ramp up times, and accelerated decisions.
A sales team has been struggling to make quota for some time, but now has an exciting new opportunity. Three new prospects have been identified, and are anxious to engage. The team divvies up the opportunities and goes to work pitching the buyers.
Will the team achieve success and get the deals, or start the year off on the wrong foot?
In this webinar we hear their story and learn their fate.
Join Alinean’s Chairman and Founder Tom Pisello, the ROI Guy, as he recounts the tale, in this entertaining and educational webcast designed for sales leadership and enablement professionals.
Demand Generation Tools Webcast: Drive more leads with Alinean value-marketin...Alinean, Inc.
Generate more demand.
- Personalize to connect better with overloaded / skeptical buyers
- Engage better with diagnosis and value quantification
- Drive 50% more leads than traditional content marketing
- More quickly advance prospects through buying lifecycle
- Double number of visitor to buyer conversions
Sound impossible?
It's not with Alinean Demand-Gen Tools.
Introducing the Alinean Social Media ROI CalculatorAlinean, Inc.
Marketers are investing more and more in social media efforts, with significant 40% or more annual increases predicted by several market research firms over the next year. To validate the significant spending growth, marketers also understand that you must make an effort to deliver social media results and success, but what investments are required, and how much effort needs to be expended to deliver specific results?
Webcast: Optimize Your Content Marketing to Facilitate the Buyer's JourneyAlinean, Inc.
Although research indicates a significant 26% of annual marketing budgets are allocated to content marketing, only 41% find that the efforts are effective.
Why the crisis in confidence and how can you insure that your content marketing investments are effective?
This webinar, conducted by Tom Pisello, the ROI Guy & Chairman/Founder of Alinean, will discuss the latest content marketing research and the significance it has on setting your budget, driving strategy and tactics and optimizing return on investment.
Interactive White Paper Webcast: Increase content marketing effectivenessAlinean, Inc.
White papers remain the most important content to help buyers make purchase decisions – helping buyers to understand opportunities, understand solution options and understand the competitive differences of your solution vs. others.
However, in today's world of information overload, white paper download rates have declined, and your investment in traditional white paper marketing campaigns is not as effective as it used to be.
Webcast: How to improve sales tool adoptionAlinean, Inc.
The document discusses 10 ways to improve sales tool adoption. It suggests providing introductory training, briefs in sales communications, sales portals, roadshow trainings, and interactive coaching to educate salespeople. It also recommends offering incentives for using the tools by highlighting how they can reduce sales cycles, increase deal sizes and win rates. The document advises aligning the tools with salespeople's workflows by integrating them into CRMs and sales playbooks. It notes that continuous reinforcement is needed due to sales turnover and short attention spans.
Storwize V7000 Solution Tco White Paper AlineanSuzyIBM
The document provides a three year total cost of ownership analysis comparing the IBM Storwize V7000 storage solution to a competitive solution. It finds that the Storwize V7000 can reduce hardware, software, maintenance and support costs by 30-65% through features like virtualization, thin provisioning, and integrated storage management software. Over three years, the Storwize V7000 is projected to save over $218,000, representing a 45% reduction in total storage costs.
Sales Enablement Tools Webcast: Make sales more effective with Alinean value-...Alinean, Inc.
Empower your Sales Team to fight Frugalnomics.
- Engage higher, with economic-focused executives
- Elevate relationship from salesperson to trusted advisor
- Increase deal size / reduce discounting by 20%
- Accelerate sales cycles by 20-30%
- Double competitive wins
Sound impossible?
It's not with Alinean Sales Enablement Tools.
Connect and Engage Better with Provocation-based SellingAlinean, Inc.
Today's buyer has been forced to do-more-with-less, and has less time than ever before to uncover their issues, and explore solution options.
How can you sell to a prospect if they are unaware of the opportunity or priority of the issues you can address, and that indeed a remedy exists?
The Five Pillars of Value Marketing & Selling Success - Maximizing your ROI f...Alinean, Inc.
Featuring:
Dave Stachura – VP Customer Success, Alinean
Tom Pisello – CEO / Founder, Alinean
“If you build it, they will come” is a quote made famous in the movie Field of Dreams. While the philosophy behind this saying worked great in a Hollywood movie about a fictional baseball field built in an Iowa cornfield, applying it when launching a new value / ROI tool to your organization may prove disastrous.
Once you’ve wrapped up development on that new value / ROI tool, you now have to make sure the launch is successful. A business value / ROI tool can be a fantastic foundation to business value selling success, but to elevate to greatness, you need more.
We have seen incredible roll-out success over the past 20 years of developing and delivering value marketing and selling tools. Some launching with great adoption (>80%) and >$100M+ incremental revenue results, and some, not so much.
In this informative session, Dave Stachura, former Sales Enablement lead at AMD and Alinean’s new VP of Customer Success, will discuss the common “failure to launch” characteristics and discuss in detail the Five Pillars of Value Success: the definitive roadmap for launch success.
SiriusDecisions - The Value of Value Selling & Marketing - Using ROI / TCO To...Alinean, Inc.
Your buyers are concerned about the economics of each purchase decision, and as a result, require financial justification early and often throughout the buyers journey.
At the same time, your standard product-centric content and demo-laden sales approach haven’t kept pace.
You have to change, and in order to do so, need to invest in new content, tools and training to effectively implement a value-focused sales and marketing approach. But this is easier said than done, as many organizations are scrutinizing new sales and marketing investments, spending less, not more, on content and enablement.
So, how do you make the case for more investment in value?
How do you quantify the tangible value of value, to make a solid business case?
In this interview, Peter Ostrow , Research Director from the sales and marketing advisory firm SiriusDecisions, discusses the business benefits of Value, with solid advice on how to measure the impact and prove the ROI from taking your value selling and marketing from “good” to “great”.
This session will give you the practical models and metrics to quantify and communicate the business case for Value, providing the framework to establish the right Value Marketing and Selling programs, project the potential business value and drive outcomes post deployment.
November 10, 2016 11:00 am
Duration: 45 minutes
Presented By
Peter Ostrow
SiriusDecisions
Research Director, Sales Enablement Strategies
Tom Pisello
The ROI Guy
Alinean
CEO & Founder
Value Selling & Realization VSR Summit - The Importance of Getting Value / RO...Alinean, Inc.
Keynote for the Value Selling and Realization Summit (VSR Summit) on the importance of getting value selling / ROI consulting right with B2B buyers / prospects. Featured Jim Ninivaggi from SiriusDecisions / Strategy to Revenue and Tom Pisello, the ROI Guy / CEO of Alinean (value sales and marketing tool experts).
SiriusDecisions Sales Content Secrets - Aligning to Customer Needs and Challe...Alinean, Inc.
The document discusses sales content and how it influences buyers' decisions. It summarizes data from a survey of B2B buyers that found content provided by reps is very influential in vendor selection. Winning reps provided 22% more content overall than runners-up. Content needs to activate buyers and empower reps. To succeed, reps must uncover buyers' needs, provide personalized content, and clearly articulate their unique value proposition. The document presents frameworks to help reps diagnose needs, align solutions to benefits and ROI, and tell compelling value stories.
Most organizations know that can achieve cost savings and greater business agility by moving to the cloud, but they often struggle to develop a comprehensive business case that quantifies the benefits they will see beyond just infrastructure cost savings. In this session, we will introduce the AWS Cloud Value Framework (CVF) and explain how it can be used to quantify not only cost savings, but also the value of business agility, operational resilience, and staff productivity. After this session, you should be able to describe the benefits of the cloud to different stakeholders across your organization and present a comprehensive value-based business case.
This document summarizes the key steps in calculating power and cost savings from virtualizing servers. It discusses identifying needs and developing a baseline by measuring current hardware usage. It then covers calculating power savings based on virtual infrastructure configurations and average wattages. Finally, it outlines how to determine total cost of ownership savings from reductions in hardware, facilities, support and other expenses. The overall goal is to demonstrate savings across multiple stakeholder groups from customers to C-level executives to operations managers to end users.
Presentation v mware roi tco calculatorsolarisyourep
This document provides an overview of VMware's ROI/TCO calculator for analyzing the costs and benefits of virtualizing server infrastructure with VMware vSphere. The calculator allows users to model various scenarios including expected future savings, past realized savings, or a mix. It covers areas like server hardware, storage, networking, power and cooling, administration labor, and downtime. Users work through a series of modules, entering configuration details and selecting VMware products. The calculator then produces estimates of return on investment, total cost of ownership, and payback period.
The document discusses consolidating IBM Lotus Domino workloads from multiple x86 servers onto fewer IBM Power Systems servers. This can provide significant cost savings through reduced hardware, energy, floor space, software licensing and staffing costs. Specifically, consolidating 41 HP ProLiant servers running 164 cores at 17% utilization onto a single Power 750 server utilizing 57% of its cores can save over $995k in total cost of ownership over three years. Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5 can also reduce storage requirements by up to 50%. The document recommends a Power 750 Express server as a solution, highlighting its POWER7 processor performance, scalability, virtualization and energy efficiency capabilities.
This document summarizes the findings of an IDC study on large enterprises that deployed IBM Power Systems servers to consolidate workloads. The study found that these organizations achieved significant cost savings and efficiency gains through consolidation. Key results included reducing system downtime by 60-94%, lowering IT staff maintenance time by up to 50%, and saving over $235,000 annually per 1,000 users on average. Consolidating workloads onto these highly virtualized servers also reduced power and cooling costs substantially. The document concludes that these benefits will be amplified by new Power7-based servers that provide faster performance and greater energy efficiency.
Creazione del business case per l'adozione del cloud nella tua aziendaAmazon Web Services
I vantaggi economici derivanti dall’adozione del cloud computing sono solo una delle ragioni per intraprendere la tua migrazione oggi. Il cloud permette, infatti, di persegure ulteriori benefici come l'ottimizzazione delle strutture tecnologiche, la digitalizzazione dei processi e aiuta a creare valore per l'intera organizzazione. In questa sessione approfondiremo i framework e gli strumenti messi a tua disposizione per costrurire il business case del percorso di migrazione su AWS.
It is well understood by the enterprise that cloud computing enables companies to host applications, mission critical workloads, and special projects on infrastructure that is built and managed by a third-party provider such as AWS. However, many customers find themselves having a difficult time in assigning value to the benefits of the cloud. In this session we will introduce a framework that can be used to identify the impact of moving to the cloud and the business value around areas such as cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, and business agility.
Achieving Business Value with AWS - AWS Transformation Day 2018: DetroitAmazon Web Services
It is well understood by the enterprise that cloud computing enables companies to host applications, mission critical workloads, and special projects on infrastructure that is built and managed by a third-party provider such as AWS. However, many customers find themselves having a difficult time in assigning value to the benefits of the cloud. In this session we will introduce a framework that can be used to identify the impact of moving to the cloud and the business value around areas such as cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, and business agility.
About the event
AWS Transformation Day is designed for enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud to become more responsive, agile and innovative, while staying secure and compliant. Join us for this one-day event and we’ll share our experiences of helping enterprise customers accelerate the pace of migration and adoption of strategic services.
Who should attend?
This event is recommended for IT and business leaders who are looking to create sustainable benefits and a competitive advantage by using the AWS Cloud. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, CFOs, IT leaders and IT professionals, enterprise developers, business decision makers, and finance executives.
The document discusses how companies can achieve business value by using AWS. It begins with an agenda that covers AWS's cloud value framework, areas of business value (cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility), and best practices. Examples are then provided of how companies have realized cost savings, increased staff productivity, improved operational resilience, and gained business agility through the use of AWS. Case studies are presented that demonstrate reductions in costs, improvements in key performance indicators, and other benefits realized by migrating IT infrastructure and applications to AWS.
Reducing TCO for Web-Based Applications
Performance-based server consolidation based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series lowers operating costs and achieves positive return on investment
Achieving Business Value with AWS - AWS Transformation Day: Santa Clara 2018Amazon Web Services
It is well understood by the enterprise that cloud computing enables companies to host applications, mission critical workloads, and special projects on infrastructure that is built and managed by a third-party provider such as AWS. However, many customers find themselves having a difficult time in assigning value to the benefits of the cloud. In this session we will introduce a framework that can be used to identify the impact of moving to the cloud and the business value around areas such as cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, and business agility.
About the Event:
AWS Transformation Day is designed for enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud to become more responsive, agile and innovative, while staying secure and compliant. Join us for this one-day event and we’ll share our experiences of helping enterprise customers accelerate the pace of migration and adoption of strategic services.
Who should attend?
This event is recommended for IT and business leaders who are looking to create sustainable benefits and a competitive advantage by using the AWS Cloud. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, CFOs, IT leaders and IT professionals, enterprise developers, business decision makers, and finance executives.
Suse service virtualization_image_set up_guide_140214Darrel Rader
This document provides instructions for using a sample virtual environment for testing IBM Rational Service Testing and Virtualization products. The environment includes:
- SUSE Linux operating system
- IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, and DB2
- Apache Tomcat
- Rational Integration Tester and Test Control Panel
It describes how to start and stop the included services like Tomcat and WebSphere Application Server. It also explains that the user needs to install libstatgrab and a SQLite JDBC driver for full functionality. The environment models a vacation booking system with flows for flight search, hotel booking, and flight confirmation that involve the various components.
Server TCO Showdown -- Lenovo x3950 X6 and IBM Storwize V7000 vs HP superdomeLenovo Data Center
In evaluating a decision between an HP Itanium server and a Lenovo x86 (Mission Critical X6) system, this paper describes the advantages of the X6 server.
This paper summarizes the business case of a representative mid-sized consumer company running mission-critical applications in an environment requiring IT expansion. The finding in the paper is that a solution comprised of Lenovo System x3950 X6 four-server solution offers superior performance AND 55% hardware, software and operating expense savings compared to the equivalent four-server HP Superdome 2 solution..
This report deals with this cost/benefit equation. Specifically, it compares the IBM i 7.1 operating system deployed on Power Systems with two alternatives: use of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, and use of x86 Linux with Oracle Database 11g, both deployed on Intel-based servers.
This document discusses where returns on investment from cloud computing come from. It identifies the five key areas of cloud computing cost savings as: hardware, software, automated provisioning, productivity improvements, and system administration. For each area, it explains how cost savings are achieved and provides metrics to measure savings. The document is intended to help organizations understand how cloud computing can lower IT expenses and calculate the payback period of a cloud investment. Sample ROI projections from an IBM study show payback periods ranging from 4 to 18 months depending on the size of the environment and savings achieved across the five cost areas.
This document discusses where returns on investment from cloud computing come from. It identifies the five key areas of cloud computing cost savings as hardware, software, automated provisioning, productivity improvements, and system administration. For each area, it explains how savings are achieved and provides metrics to measure savings. The document is intended to help organizations understand how cloud computing can lower IT expenses and calculate the payback period of a cloud investment. It provides examples from an IBM study showing some clients achieved payback within 6-12 months after moving to a private cloud infrastructure.
AWS Cloud Value Framework - AWS Transformation Days Raleigh 2018.pdfAmazon Web Services
It is well understood by the enterprise that cloud computing enables companies to host applications, mission critical workloads, and special projects on infrastructure that is built and managed by a third-party provider such as AWS. However, many customers find themselves having a difficult time in assigning value to the benefits of the cloud. In this session we will introduce a framework that can be used to identify the impact of moving to the cloud and the business value around areas such as cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, and business agility.
The business case for cloud computing goes beyond total cost of ownership (TCO). AWS helps organizations reduce time to market and time spent on undifferentiated work and improve application availability. In this chalk talk, you learn about the AWS Cloud Value Framework. This framework quantifies not only TCO savings, but also the business value of agility, risk reduction, and efficiency, which you can use in building a case for change. After this session, you should be able to describe the benefits of the cloud to different stakeholders across your organization and present a comprehensive business case.
Achieving Business Value - Transformation Day Philadelphia 2018Amazon Web Services
The document discusses how businesses can achieve value through the use of AWS. It outlines a cloud value framework with four areas of potential value: cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, and business agility. It then provides examples and case studies of how companies have realized benefits in each of these areas through their use of AWS, such as reduced infrastructure costs, increased staff efficiency, lower downtime, and faster innovation. Realized benefits included 50% reductions in total cost of ownership, 80% decreases in software development times, improved application availability of 99.99%, and the ability to launch new products 75% faster.
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This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is a (1) 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server that supports up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design for optimal performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers (2) excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability for improved business environments. The server is (3) designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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The IBM System x3500 M4 server provides powerful and scalable performance for business applications in an energy efficient tower or rack design. It features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 processors with up to 24 cores, 768GB RAM, 32 hard drives, and 8 PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools and redundant components help ensure high availability, while its small footprint and 80 Plus Platinum power supplies reduce data center costs.
Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741626/IBM-System-x3500-M3
Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well suited to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x3200 M3 and its specifications. The System x3200 M3 features easy installation and management with a rich set of options for hard disk drives and memory. The efficient design helps to save energy and provide a better work environment with less heat and noise. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210739508/IBM-System-x3200-M3
Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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Learn about Ibm POWER7 Virtualization Performance. PowerVM Lx86 is a cross-platform virtualization solution that enables the running of a wide range of x86 Linux applications on Power Systems platforms within a Linux on Power partition without modifications or recompilation of the workloads. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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This reference architecture document describes deploying the VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite on the IBM PureFlex System hardware platform. Key points:
- The vCloud Suite software provides components for managing and delivering cloud services, while the IBM PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware platform in a single chassis.
- The reference architecture focuses on installing the vCloud Suite management components as virtual machines on an ESXi host to manage consumer resources.
- The IBM PureFlex System provides servers, networking, and storage in a single chassis that can then be easily scaled out. This standardized deployment accelerates provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
- Deployment considerations cover systems management using IBM Flex System Manager, server, networking, storage configurations
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210715795/X6-The-sixth-generation-of-EXA-Technology
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
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DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
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Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
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TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
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Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
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Alinean whitepaper: Server Consolidation for Oracle E-Business Suite with IBM Power Systems Servers: Lowering TCO
1. Server Consolidation for
Oracle E-Business Suite with
IBM Power Systems Servers:
Lowering Total Cost of Ownership
An Alinean White Paper
Greg Shanker - Vice President
This document was developed with IBM funding. Although the document may utilize publicly
available material from various vendors, including IBM, it does not necessarily reflect
the positions of such vendors on the issues addressed in this document.
3. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................. 1
Financial Overview .....................................................................1
ANNUAL OPERATING EXPENSES .................................................. 2
SERVER CONSOLIDATION CASE STUDY ............................................ 2
Original Server Environment ........................................................2
Proposed Server Hardware Configurations .......................................3
Software Licensing.....................................................................4
Systems and Database Administration Labor Costs ............................4
Energy Costs and Environmental (Green) Impact...............................5
Upgrade / Migration Costs ...........................................................6
Improved Operational Agility .......................................................6
Service Level Improvements .........................................................6
CONCLUSION ...................................................................... 7
EXPLORE FOR YOURSELF .......................................................... 7
ABOUT ALINEAN .................................................................. 7
Server Consolidation for Oracle E-Business Suite with IBM Power Systems Servers: Lowering TCO iii
Copyright 2001-2010 Alinean, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
4. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In these tight and uncertain economic times many organizations are exploring ways they can lower ongoing
operating costs and increase flexibility. With the economy teetering between a solid recovery and a
potential double dipped recession organizations are seeking strategies that will enable them to quickly scale
operations up or down to meet market demand. Reducing fixed operating costs and preserving cash
liquidity are key financial goals for improving this flexibility. This paper discusses how a professional
services firm recently streamlined their IT infrastructure by consolidating on IBM Power Systems servers to
help achieve these goals.
The paper examines in detail the financial case this organization put together for the decision to move
forward with a server consolidation project. The organization had grown significantly over the past several
years through a series of mergers and acquisitions. As the organization acquired new operating companies
it migrated the financial applications for those companies onto a standard set of Oracle E-Business Suite
applications. The organization deployed a new set of servers and application instances for each operating
company they acquired. This approach enabled the organization to quickly integrate new operating
companies with minimal interruption to ongoing operations.
Most of the servers supporting critical operations were now reaching the end of their optimal life span.
Performance and reliability were becoming a concern for some key functions. In examining its upgrade
options, the organization wondered whether it would be better to maintain its current IT architecture and
simply replace existing servers, or if it could achieve greater efficiencies through server consolidation. The
organization considered three upgrade alternatives.
1) Replace current Sun Fire servers with the latest Sun SPARC Enterprise servers.
2) Consolidate workloads onto more scalable Sun SPARC Enterprise servers using virtualization.
3) Consolidate workloads onto IBM Power Systems servers using virtualization.
Financial Overview
Based on its financial assessment the organization determined that it could save $5,038,494 or 58% over
three years by consolidating its Oracle E-Business Suite onto IBM Power Systems servers compared to
upgrading its current architecture with Sun SPARC Enterprise servers. With superior price performance the
IBM Power Systems consolidation solution was also $2,895,109 less than a comparable Sun SPARC
Enterprise consolidation configuration. The primary advantage of the IBM Power Systems configuration
compared to the Sun SPARC consolidation option came from the cost of the server hardware.
Compared to upgrading the current Sun SPARC server configuration, the IBM Power Systems consolidation
plan was expected to yield a broad range of savings including; server hardware costs, software costs,
systems administration labor and datacenter expansion and energy costs. Table 1 shows the expected
costs for the three alternative proposals, and the savings of the IBM Power Systems consolidation option
compared to upgrading the Sun SPARC configuration over a three year analysis period.
Sun SPARC Sun SPARC IBM Power IBM Power Savings vs.
Three Year TCO Comparison Upgrade Consolidation Consolidation Sun SPARC Upgrade
Number of Servers 42 4 4 38 90%
Server Hardware Costs $4,036,000 $4,257,600 $1,180,000 $2,856,000 71%
Server Software Costs $459,240 $169,200 $417,600 $41,640 9%
Server Administration Labor $3,382,500 $1,732,500 $1,732,500 $1,650,000 49%
Upgrade / Migration Costs $152,500 $173,750 $226,250 ($73,750) (48%)
Energy Costs $424,913 $158,719 $40,310 $384,604 91%
Datacenter Expansion Costs $180,000 $0 $0 $180,000 100%
Total Three Year Costs $8,635,153 $6,491,769 $3,596,660 $5,038,494 58%
Table 1: Three Year TCO Comparison Chart
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5. In addition to the direct hard cost savings identified in the TCO Comparison Table, the organization also
expected to achieve significant benefits through improved performance, systems availability and greater
agility from the server consolidation effort. Because the measurement of these benefits was more
subjective, the organization elected to exclude them from the financial analysis. All of these benefits are
explained in further detail in subsequent sections of this paper.
ANNUAL OPERATING EXPENSES
In addition to lowering its total costs of ownership (TCO) over time, the organization was also interested in
reducing annual operating expenses and preserving precious cash reserves. Once it determined that the
IBM Power Systems solution provided the lowest cost option, it discussed financing options with IBM Global
Finance. Based on the cash flow analysis the organization decided to enter into a three year lease for the
server hardware and to finance the software and migration services costs for a three year period. By
spreading its payments over time with attractive financing rates, the organization was able to improve its IT
operations and lower annual operating costs by 30% saving over $525,000 per year. Interestingly, the
savings in annual energy costs and software expenses were almost the same as the additional costs for the
new server hardware, basically offsetting those costs. Table 2 shows the annual operating cost comparison
between the original server environment and the IBM Power Systems solution leveraging the three year
contract with IBM Global Finance.
Original Server IBM Power Annual Savings
Annual Operating Costs Environment Consolidation with IBM
Server Hardware Costs $232,400 $355,000 ($122,600)
Server Software Costs $181,500 $150,000 $31,500
Server Administration Labor $1,127,500 $577,500 $550,000
Upgrade / Migration Costs N/A $84,000 ($84,000)
Energy Costs $104,755 $13,437 $91,318
Datacenter Expansion Costs $60,000 N/A $60,000
Total Annual Operating Costs $1,706,555 $1,179,937 $526,218
Table 2: Annual operating costs
SERVER CONSOLIDATION CASE STUDY
Original Server Environment
The original server environment consisted of five sets of servers, one for each operating company, and a
set of servers for test and development. Each set of servers supported three tiers; a database tier, an
application tier and a web user interface tier. The configurations varied slightly based on the scale required
for the different operating companies. Overall, there were 8 Sun Fire v890 servers with 8 dual-core
UltraSPARC IV processors, 20 Sun Fire v490s with 2 dual-core UltraSPARC IV processors and 14 older Sun
Fire v440s with 4 single-core UltraSPARC IIIi processors. The Sun Fire v890s were used exclusively for the
database tier. The Sun Fire v490s were used for all three tiers. The older Sun Fire v440s were used for
the web tier. Table 3 below shows the original server configurations, original purchase prices and annual
hardware maintenance costs per server.
Number of Cores per Memory Purchase Annual
Server Type Servers Server per Server Price Support
Sun Fire v890 – UltraSPARC IV 8 16 32 GB $125,000 $11,500
Sun Fire v490 – UltraSPARC IV 20 8 16 GB $47,000 $4,950
Sun Fire v440 – UltraSPARC IIIi 14 4 6 GB $36,500 $3,850
Total All Servers 42 344 660 GB $2,451,000 $244,900
Table 3: Original server configurations
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6. Proposed Server Hardware Configurations
Going forward the organization considered three upgrade alternatives:
1) Replace current Sun Fire servers with the latest Sun SPARC Enterprise servers.
2) Consolidate workloads onto more scalable Sun SPARC Enterprise servers using virtualization.
3) Consolidate workloads onto IBM Power Systems servers using virtualization.
The organization worked with engineers representing both hardware vendors to size the appropriate
configurations based on current workloads and the desire for greater processing power. For the first
option, the Sun Upgrade Configuration, the organization would replace the current Sun Fire v890 servers
with Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers. Each M5000 server would be configured with 8 quad core
SPARC64 VII (2.53 GHz) processors and 64 GB of memory. The Sun Fire v490 servers would be replaced
with Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 servers, each with 4 quad core SPARC64 VII (2.53 GHz) processors and
32 GB of memory. The Sun Fire v440 servers would be replaced with Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000
servers, each with 2 quad core SPARC64 VII (2.53 GHz) processors and 16 GB of memory.
For the server consolidation options the organization expected to be able to increase average system
utilization from 18.7% to over 45% by moving current processes from separate physical servers to virtual
machines on larger more scalable servers. For the Sun SPARC Consolidation configuration the organization
would need a cluster of four Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 servers, each with 16 quad core Sun SPARC64
VII (2.53 GHz) processors and 256 GB of memory.
The IBM Power Consolidation configuration would have a similar architecture with four clustered IBM Power
780 servers. Each of the IBM Power 780 servers would be configured with 2 eight core IBM POWER7
(3.8GHz) processors and 256 GB of memory. Table 4 shows the configurations, purchase prices and annual
hardware support costs for the various options.
Number of Processors Memory Purchase Annual
Server Type Servers (Chips/Cores) per Server Price Support
Sun SPARC Upgrade Configuration
Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 8 (8 / 32) 64 GB $150,000 $11,500
Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 20 (4 / 16) 32 GB $65,000 $7,000
Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 14 (2 / 8) 16 GB $45,000 $5,000
Total Sun SPARC Upgrade 42 (172 / 688) 1376 GB $3,130,000 $302,000
Sun SPARC Consolidation Configuration
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 4 (16 / 64) 256 GB $900,000 $54,800
Total Sun SPARC Consolidation 4 (64 / 256) 1024 GB $3,600,000 $219,200
IBM Power Consolidation Configuration
IBM Power 780 4 (2 / 16) 256 GB $250,000 $15,000
Total IBM Power Consolidation 4 (8 / 64) 1024 GB $1,000,000 $60,000
Table 4: Proposed server configurations
The lowest cost option was the IBM Power Systems configuration. With a powerful system architecture and
highly efficient virtualization solution the IBM Power 780 servers were able to deliver superior performance
to the larger Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 servers at 72% lower cost per server. Similarly, the higher
efficiency of the clustered IBM Power configuration resulted in $2,130,000 lower hardware costs than the
Sun SPARC Upgrade configuration.
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7. Software Licensing
In addition to the server hardware costs, the organization also examined the software costs associated with
switching platforms. Changing platforms to IBM Power Systems would require new IBM AIX operating
system and IBM PowerVM virtualization software licenses, which would cost $64,000 per server for the
licenses and $16,000 per year for annual support. Compared with current annual software support costs of
$181,500, it turned out that the consolidation would actually reduce annual software maintenance costs by
59% per year. These savings would compensate for the additional license fees in just over two years and
reduce overall software costs by 23% over the three year analysis period saving $126,600.
The software cost comparison included the upfront license fees and ongoing annual support for operating
system software as well as systems management software. Typically database and application server
software are also included in the cost comparison. However, the costs for these components were the
same for all three configurations, since the Oracle database and Oracle application server licenses were
bundled with the Oracle E-Business Suite application software, which was priced on a per user basis rather
than a per server basis. Table 5 shows the upfront license costs for the new IBM AIX and PowerVM
licenses and the annual software support costs for all three options.
Sun SPARC Sun SPARC IBM Power
Software License and Support Costs Upgrade Consolidation Consolidation
Number of Servers 42 4 4
Operating System License Cost per Server N/A N/A $64,000
Total Operating System License Costs N/A N/A $256,000
Annual Operating System Support per Server $2,211 $8,500 $16,000
Annual Systems Management Support per Server $1,433 $5,600 $2,800
Total Annual Software Support Costs $153,080 $56,400 $75,200
Total Three Year Software Costs $459,240 $169,200 $417,600
Table 5: Three Year Software License and Support Cost Comparison
Systems and Database Administration Labor Costs
One of the major objectives for the server consolidation was to reduce ongoing operating expenses. While
the original architecture of separate standard implementations per operating company simplified systems
management, maintaining multiple servers required considerable overhead. Upgrades and patches needed
to be applied consistently to all servers. Performance tuning, availability management and access control
were also performed separately for each individual server.
The organization anticipated that it could reduce the server and database administration workloads by 50%
through server consolidation, reducing current staffing levels from nine down to four and a half staff. This
would allow the organization to shift these freed up resources from daily administration and operations
functions to more proactive roles of data management and reporting in support of business initiatives.
Table 6 shows the current staffing levels for Systems Administration, Database Administration and
Operations along with expected levels for a consolidated environment. By reducing the labor requirements
for infrastructure management from nine staff to four and a half, the organization expected to reduce
annual operating costs by $550,000 per year, saving $1,650,000 over the three year analysis period.
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8. Original and IBM or Sun
Server Administration Labor Costs Upgrade Labor Consolidation Annual Savings
Number of Servers 42 4 38
Database Administrators 2.5 1.5 1.0
Average Annual DBA Salary * $145,000 $145,000 $145,000
Systems Administrators 4.0 2.0 2.0
Average Annual System Administration Salary $135,000 $135,000 $270,000
Systems Operations Staff 2.5 1.0 1.5
Average Systems Operations Salary $90,000 $90,000 $135,000
Annual Administration Costs $1,127,500 $577,500 $550,000
Total Three Year Admin Costs $3,382,500 $1,732,500 $1,650,000
Table 6: Three Year Server and Database Administration Labor Costs
* Note: All salaries reflect the fully burdened costs for staff including base salary, benefits, payroll taxes,
paid time off, and office expenses.
Energy Costs and Environmental (Green) Impact
With the recent focus on global warming and fluctuating energy costs the organization was interested in
reducing its energy requirements. This was particularly important because the datacenter had started
running rather warm in the past two years. If the organization could not reduce the energy consumption
and corresponding heat generation they would be forced to undergo a costly datacenter expansion and air
conditioning system upgrade.
The datacenter expansion and HVAC upgrade was expected to cost $600,000. Using a simple ten year
straight line depreciation schedule the amortized cost of the expansion came to $60,000 per year. For
every year to organization could avoid the upgrade they would save this $60,000 expense.
The proposed IBM Power solution was expected to reduce total energy consumption by an impressive 87%,
saving over 950,000 kWatts per year or $91,318 in electrical costs. This reduction in power consumption
and heat generation was sufficient to postpone the expansion of the datacenter. The alternative Sun
M8000 consolidation solution would also reduce energy requirements by almost 50%, but this configuration
would still require nearly three times more energy than the IBM proposal. Table 7 below shows the energy
requirements for the original server configuration and the three alternative proposals.
Original Sun SPARC Sun SPARC IBM Power
Annual Energy Consumption
Environment Upgrade Consolidation Consolidation
Number of Servers 42 42 4 4
Average Power Consumption per Server (Watts) 1,188 1,606 6,300 1,600
Annual Operating Hours 8766 8766 8766 8766
Data Center PUE Factor* 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
Annual Power Consumption (kWatts) 1,1093,471 1,478,474 552,258 140,256
Average Price per kWh $0.0958 $0.0958 $0.0958 $0.0958
Annual Power and Cooling Costs $104,755 $141,638 $52,906 $13,437
Average CO2 Emissions (lbs/kWatt) 1.341 1.341 1.341 1.341
Annual CO2 Emissions (tons) 733 991 370 94
Table 7: Annual Energy Consumption and Cost Comparison
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9. * PUE – Power Usage Effectiveness is the measure of energy required by the data center as a whole for
each unit of energy delivered to servers. This measure includes cooling and other data center equipment.
Finally, from an environmental perspective, the reduction in energy consumption for power and cooling
would result in a decrease of approximately 639 tons of CO2 per year, or the equivalent of eliminating the
emissions of 106 cars per year. (On average cars produce 6 metric tons of CO2 per year.)
Upgrade / Migration Costs
The installation of the new IBM Power Systems servers and application migration would be performed by a
combination of external professional services personnel and internal staff. The initial installation of the new
servers and application migration would take ten weeks including system design and planning. System
verification and testing would take an additional six weeks. Overall the organization budgeted $120,000 for
external professional services fees. They estimated internal migration costs at $106,250, based on 1700
hours of internal labor at an average fully burdened hourly rate of $62.50.
Improved Operational Agility
While the organization had a sound process in place for integrating new operating companies, the
deployment of new systems for each new acquisition or merger required considerable time and effort.
First, the organization would need to assess the current workload for the new operating company to
properly size the required servers. Since the operating companies were typically running different financial
applications, this required some analysis to translate current workloads over to the Oracle E-Business Suite.
To compensate for any sizing errors and to account for growth, the IT organization generally inflated the
system specifications and purchased larger servers than were truly needed.
In addition to the time and effort required for system sizing the organization also needed to procure the
servers, install the hardware and configure the systems. Once the physical hardware was in place and
operational, then the IT group could begin the application configuration and data migration. This process
took six to nine months on average.
With the new virtualized server infrastructure the organization could simply define new virtual servers on
the existing physical server cluster to accommodate new application instances. The organization expected
that eliminating the sizing, procurement, installation and configuration of additional servers would trim
three months off the time it took to integrate the financial systems for new operating companies.
Additionally, by leveraging a virtualized environment the organization could make more efficient use of
physical server resources. Rather than over-sizing server requirements, the organization could now define
virtual machines to more closely match expected processing needs, and easily adjust the allocation of these
resources over time to match actual processing requirements.
Service Level Improvements
Based on benchmark tests with the IBM Power Systems servers, the organization expected to improve
service levels for the organization by accelerating key business processes and improving system availability.
Over the years growth in computing requirements had started degrading the performance of both
interactive users of the applications as well as crucial period end financial processes. The new IBM Power
Systems were able to complete many of these processes up to four times faster than the previous systems.
The organization expected that these performance improvements would yield tangible productivity benefits
for the Finance group in being able to process weekly payroll, close month end financial statements and
process accounts receivable more efficiently.
The new clustered configuration with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror would also provide higher availability
through automated failover.
Although improving performance and reliability were key factors in the server consolidation decision, the
organization chose not to quantify these benefits for the financial analysis.
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10. CONCLUSION
While standardization of core technologies and processes can contribute to improved operational efficiency
and increased service levels, this case study revealed that consolidation of IT resources can provide even
greater savings. By consolidating forty two servers down to only four physical servers our study participant
was able to lower ongoing operational costs for systems administration and energy by a combined 52%,
saving over $641,318 per year compared to upgrading existing servers. Additionally, the IBM Power
Systems consolidation solution offered superior price performance characteristics compared to the Sun
SPARC Enterprise M8000 proposal.
By switching architectures and consolidating on IBM Power 780 servers the organization featured in this
paper expected to reduce the total cost of ownership TCO for their server infrastructure by $526,218, or
30% over a three year analysis period. By modernizing their server hardware and implementing high
availability clustering, they also expected to decrease system downtime, improving service levels for the
business. The implementation of a virtualized server environment would also improve average resource
utilization and accelerate the deployment of new applications, thus increasing business agility.
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