1) IBM worked to integrate its global data centers to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. It consolidated 155 data centers down to 5 strategic sites and combined 31 networks into one globally managed network.
2) To update its data center strategy, IBM brought in outside experts to engage stakeholders and develop consensus on the key criteria to use, focusing on responsibility, finances, workloads, and governance.
3) IBM then took inventory of all its servers, data, applications and locations to determine which data centers to consolidate and which workloads could be relocated to more efficient centers.
22nd – 24th November 2012, Jaipur
IBM hosted a conference called "Smarter Datacenter" from November 22nd-24th, 2012 in Jaipur. Sanjeev Gupta from IBM Datacenter Services discussed IBM's experience building over 30 million square feet of datacenter space globally and managing over 8 million square feet. IBM also discussed their investments in green technologies and modular datacenter solutions.
This document summarizes findings from interviews with over 2,500 CIOs worldwide. The interviews found that successful CIOs blend three pairs of roles: 1) Insightful Visionary and Able Pragmatist, 2) Savvy Value Creator and Relentless Cost Cutter, and 3) Collaborative Business Leader and Inspiring IT Manager. By balancing these roles, CIOs can make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT, and expand their business impact.
A new dual-model approach to IT management is proposed that separates IT functions into "Factory IT" and "Enabling IT". Factory IT aims to drive efficiency and reduce costs through standardization, lean techniques, and automation. Enabling IT focuses on supporting innovation through rapid experimentation, close business collaboration, and enabling new technologies like data analytics and Web 2.0 tools. The document discusses how each model operates and the organizational changes needed to effectively implement this new dual-model approach to IT leadership and governance.
1) The document discusses convergence as a continuum to drive superior customer outcomes. It argues that convergence should optimize for both efficiency/agility and performance to meet different organizational needs.
2) Dell believes convergence should span infrastructure, operations, applications, and services. Dell offers solutions focused on both performance and efficiency/agility.
3) Convergence involves trade-offs and may be incomplete. Dell advocates for open, flexible architectures and interoperability between existing management solutions to fully realize the benefits of convergence.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
1) IBM worked to integrate its global data centers to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. It consolidated 155 data centers down to 5 strategic sites and combined 31 networks into one globally managed network.
2) To update its data center strategy, IBM brought in outside experts to engage stakeholders and develop consensus on the key criteria to use, focusing on responsibility, finances, workloads, and governance.
3) IBM then took inventory of all its servers, data, applications and locations to determine which data centers to consolidate and which workloads could be relocated to more efficient centers.
22nd – 24th November 2012, Jaipur
IBM hosted a conference called "Smarter Datacenter" from November 22nd-24th, 2012 in Jaipur. Sanjeev Gupta from IBM Datacenter Services discussed IBM's experience building over 30 million square feet of datacenter space globally and managing over 8 million square feet. IBM also discussed their investments in green technologies and modular datacenter solutions.
This document summarizes findings from interviews with over 2,500 CIOs worldwide. The interviews found that successful CIOs blend three pairs of roles: 1) Insightful Visionary and Able Pragmatist, 2) Savvy Value Creator and Relentless Cost Cutter, and 3) Collaborative Business Leader and Inspiring IT Manager. By balancing these roles, CIOs can make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT, and expand their business impact.
A new dual-model approach to IT management is proposed that separates IT functions into "Factory IT" and "Enabling IT". Factory IT aims to drive efficiency and reduce costs through standardization, lean techniques, and automation. Enabling IT focuses on supporting innovation through rapid experimentation, close business collaboration, and enabling new technologies like data analytics and Web 2.0 tools. The document discusses how each model operates and the organizational changes needed to effectively implement this new dual-model approach to IT leadership and governance.
1) The document discusses convergence as a continuum to drive superior customer outcomes. It argues that convergence should optimize for both efficiency/agility and performance to meet different organizational needs.
2) Dell believes convergence should span infrastructure, operations, applications, and services. Dell offers solutions focused on both performance and efficiency/agility.
3) Convergence involves trade-offs and may be incomplete. Dell advocates for open, flexible architectures and interoperability between existing management solutions to fully realize the benefits of convergence.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
The document summarizes key findings from an IBM study on data center design best practices for operational efficiency. It found that 21% of clients have highly efficient data centers that allocate 50% more of their IT budget to new projects rather than maintenance. Characteristics of these centers include optimizing assets, designing flexibility, and using automation. The implications are to right-size capacity and availability for best return, design flexibility, optimize long-term expenses not just upfront costs. Analytics can be used to right-size capacity tailored to a company's business growth needs.
Data Center Operational Efficiency RoundtableHerb Hernandez
Presentation from April 19 webinar: Data Center Operational Efficiency Best Practices Video Roundtable. Featuring speakers from IBM, IDC and The NFL. http://bit.ly/LjNaHL
The document is an IBM study that developed a data center operational efficiency model with four stages - Basic, Consolidated, Available, and Strategic. Data centers operating at the Strategic level allocate 50% more resources to new projects compared to Basic centers. Key characteristics of Strategic data centers include optimizing assets for high availability, designing for flexibility, using automation tools, and aligning the data center plan with business goals. The study found Strategic data centers delivered greater investment in initiatives, efficiency, and flexibility compared to Basic centers.
Rethink IT. Reinvent Business. - Dharanibalan GurunathanJyothi Satyanathan
The document is an agenda for an IBM event taking place from November 22-24, 2012 in Jaipur, India. It discusses increasing pressures on businesses to deliver value with limited resources, and how forward-thinking CIOs are forging strategic partnerships to help IT deliver true business value. The event will focus on how IBM can help organizations improve employee mobility, manage data and infrastructure, ensure business continuity, and leverage the right mix of traditional IT, managed services, and cloud solutions.
Intel Server & Data Center Optimization PlanUmair Mohsin
Intel is managing its large information technology infrastructure through the economic downturn by focusing on data center optimization and efficiencies. Key strategies include standardizing server designs, improving utilization through virtualization and server refresh, and optimizing data center locations. This allows Intel to reduce costs while continuing to support business operations and productivity.
Cloud computing provides opportunities for organizations to reduce IT costs and complexity while improving efficiency. As expectations increase around access to real-time information and service innovation, cloud computing allows organizations to scale resources up or down as needed without increasing budgets. Some key benefits of cloud computing include increased flexibility, ability to scale resources based on business needs, and faster delivery of new offerings. However, strategic approaches are needed to manage integration challenges across cloud and traditional IT environments and ensure security, integrity of data, and management of business processes in the cloud.
This independent survey was commissioned by
Savvis and conducted with 550 CIOs, IT Directors,
Heads of IT and Senior IT Managers of global large
enterprises based in the USA (200), UK (100),
Germany (100), Japan (50), Hong Kong (50) and
Singapore (50), and was completed in August
2012. The research was conducted by Vanson
Bourne, a research based technology marketing
consultancy offering clients analysis and advice
based on incisive, rigorous research into their
market environment. The research used a
combination of online fieldwork methodology and
telephone interviewing. All research carried out by
Vanson Bourne adheres to the latest MRS Code
of Conduct. Demographic detailing respondent
communities includes industry sector, country
in which the respondents were based, and size
of business.
Microsoft Unified Communications - Delivering an End to End Unified Communica...Microsoft Private Cloud
Globalization of today’s workforce and macroeconomic cost pressures are forcing business leaders to rethink how employees communicate, collaborate and innovate.
Organizations are increasingly seeking more efficient, cost effective ways to minimize risk while accelerating business growth through innovation. HP and Microsoft®
business productivity solutions that unify communications
and collaboration can help you reduce costs, mitigate
risk, enhance employee productivity and accelerate
business innovation.
HP is expanding its mission critical converged infrastructure with Project Odyssey. The project aims to modernize mission critical computing by bringing Integrity/HP-UX technology to x86 servers, extending HP's strategy. This will allow customers to do mission critical computing on their terms with a variety of operating systems and applications, providing flexibility and choice. Intel supports the project as continuing innovation in Itanium and Xeon will allow HP and Intel to deliver customer-driven mission critical solutions. Industry analysts and users have praised Project Odyssey as a smart move that promises gains for HP customers.
1) The document discusses considerations for building a private cloud, including leveraging the transformational power of cloud computing to enable new business models, deliver IT without boundaries, and improve business agility.
2) It recommends mapping current applications and services to a cloud deployment strategy to prioritize workloads for migration to private, public, or hybrid clouds.
3) The evolution from current infrastructure to a cloud-based delivery model is described, starting with virtualization and advancing to consumption-based metering and automation of service delivery.
Expense Reduction Analysts provides a guide to reducing IT costs for businesses. The guide discusses topics such as green IT, office software alternatives to Microsoft, hosted IT and outsourcing services, and technology business management. Implementing strategies around these topics can help businesses reduce IT costs by up to 35% and improve the performance of their technology assets.
Digital Fuel IT Financial Management -Bus applications costvisibility_0911yisbat
IT Cost Management provides full visibility into the total costs of enterprise applications, including software licenses, maintenance fees, infrastructure costs, and more. This visibility allows organizations to (1) identify applications that could deliver significant cost savings through reduced service levels or outsourcing, (2) end maintenance for applications with high costs and low usage, and (3) eliminate inefficiencies in underlying infrastructure costs. IT Cost Management brings structure and transparency to application costs to help IT and business teams make smarter spending decisions aligned with business goals.
This document discusses how audio, video, and document conferencing services have become important business tools due to changes in business needs and improvements in technology. It outlines trends driving greater reliance on conferencing, such as an increasing need for real-time collaboration across geographic and organizational boundaries. It also describes how infrastructure upgrades and new conferencing products have enabled richer conferencing experiences by taking advantage of higher-capacity, more reliable networks. The document establishes conferencing services as crucial for enabling fast, effective communication in today's business environment.
Business Case on Leveraging convergence within IT, to simplify technology management, save costs and automate the delivery of services to business users
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
This document discusses defining a blueprint for a smarter data center through flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and active monitoring and management. It outlines four ways to achieve this: 1) extending the life of existing infrastructure, 2) rationalizing infrastructure across the company through consolidation, 3) implementing flexible modular design, and 4) providing integrated IT and data center operations management. Analytics-based services can help assess infrastructure needs, model outcomes, automate processes, and manage operations to unlock greater value from data center investments. Case studies demonstrate benefits like reduced costs, deferred capital expenditures, and improved efficiency.
The document summarizes an IDC white paper on converged infrastructure. The key points are:
1) IT infrastructure has become highly complex over time, leading to rising management costs as organizations have had to integrate different systems. Server virtualization has helped contain hardware costs but not management overhead.
2) Converged infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking and management tools into a single system. This simplifies deployment and lowers management costs through automation.
3) Converged systems represent the natural evolution of IT infrastructure as different technologies gradually integrate over multiple technology cycles. Convergence enables more dynamic, efficient "private cloud" environments within organizations.
Green, Governance and Growth are the three quintessential features for a next generation data center; resulting in lower cost, better industry compliance and contribution to overall business growth.
HCL and EMC have joined hands to provide G3 data centers in post recession era helping CIOs to transform their Data Centers.
This whitepaper discusses how cloud adoption provides benefits beyond just financial return on investment (ROI). Moving to the cloud allows IT teams to focus less on managing infrastructure and more on innovation and strategic initiatives that can improve business operations. The cloud enables quicker application delivery and increased employee productivity, leading to greater business agility and competitive advantage over time. While cost savings are important, cloud computing allows for continuous business transformation through new ideas implemented by a more creative IT organization.
Cloud computing provides several key business benefits:
1) It lowers IT costs by increasing infrastructure utilization and automation.
2) It enables access to IT resources and applications on a flexible, "pay-as-you-go" basis.
3) It simplifies IT for end users by removing complexity and allowing access from any device.
Cloud adoption strategies vary depending on a company's size and industry dynamics, but cloud pilots can help organizations understand how cloud may address their business needs in a low-risk way.
This white paper discusses how cloud computing can drive value for enterprises by lowering IT costs and enabling innovation. Some key points:
1) Cloud computing provides on-demand, scalable access to computing resources and enables a pay-per-use model that can significantly lower both capital and operating costs for IT compared to maintaining physical infrastructure.
2) Standardizing applications and infrastructure on cloud platforms further drives down costs through improved efficiency and reduced complexity.
3) In addition to cost savings, cloud also allows organizations to innovate faster, access new markets more easily, and optimize existing IT investments through an elastic, globally available environment.
The document summarizes key findings from an IBM study on data center design best practices for operational efficiency. It found that 21% of clients have highly efficient data centers that allocate 50% more of their IT budget to new projects rather than maintenance. Characteristics of these centers include optimizing assets, designing flexibility, and using automation. The implications are to right-size capacity and availability for best return, design flexibility, optimize long-term expenses not just upfront costs. Analytics can be used to right-size capacity tailored to a company's business growth needs.
Data Center Operational Efficiency RoundtableHerb Hernandez
Presentation from April 19 webinar: Data Center Operational Efficiency Best Practices Video Roundtable. Featuring speakers from IBM, IDC and The NFL. http://bit.ly/LjNaHL
The document is an IBM study that developed a data center operational efficiency model with four stages - Basic, Consolidated, Available, and Strategic. Data centers operating at the Strategic level allocate 50% more resources to new projects compared to Basic centers. Key characteristics of Strategic data centers include optimizing assets for high availability, designing for flexibility, using automation tools, and aligning the data center plan with business goals. The study found Strategic data centers delivered greater investment in initiatives, efficiency, and flexibility compared to Basic centers.
Rethink IT. Reinvent Business. - Dharanibalan GurunathanJyothi Satyanathan
The document is an agenda for an IBM event taking place from November 22-24, 2012 in Jaipur, India. It discusses increasing pressures on businesses to deliver value with limited resources, and how forward-thinking CIOs are forging strategic partnerships to help IT deliver true business value. The event will focus on how IBM can help organizations improve employee mobility, manage data and infrastructure, ensure business continuity, and leverage the right mix of traditional IT, managed services, and cloud solutions.
Intel Server & Data Center Optimization PlanUmair Mohsin
Intel is managing its large information technology infrastructure through the economic downturn by focusing on data center optimization and efficiencies. Key strategies include standardizing server designs, improving utilization through virtualization and server refresh, and optimizing data center locations. This allows Intel to reduce costs while continuing to support business operations and productivity.
Cloud computing provides opportunities for organizations to reduce IT costs and complexity while improving efficiency. As expectations increase around access to real-time information and service innovation, cloud computing allows organizations to scale resources up or down as needed without increasing budgets. Some key benefits of cloud computing include increased flexibility, ability to scale resources based on business needs, and faster delivery of new offerings. However, strategic approaches are needed to manage integration challenges across cloud and traditional IT environments and ensure security, integrity of data, and management of business processes in the cloud.
This independent survey was commissioned by
Savvis and conducted with 550 CIOs, IT Directors,
Heads of IT and Senior IT Managers of global large
enterprises based in the USA (200), UK (100),
Germany (100), Japan (50), Hong Kong (50) and
Singapore (50), and was completed in August
2012. The research was conducted by Vanson
Bourne, a research based technology marketing
consultancy offering clients analysis and advice
based on incisive, rigorous research into their
market environment. The research used a
combination of online fieldwork methodology and
telephone interviewing. All research carried out by
Vanson Bourne adheres to the latest MRS Code
of Conduct. Demographic detailing respondent
communities includes industry sector, country
in which the respondents were based, and size
of business.
Microsoft Unified Communications - Delivering an End to End Unified Communica...Microsoft Private Cloud
Globalization of today’s workforce and macroeconomic cost pressures are forcing business leaders to rethink how employees communicate, collaborate and innovate.
Organizations are increasingly seeking more efficient, cost effective ways to minimize risk while accelerating business growth through innovation. HP and Microsoft®
business productivity solutions that unify communications
and collaboration can help you reduce costs, mitigate
risk, enhance employee productivity and accelerate
business innovation.
HP is expanding its mission critical converged infrastructure with Project Odyssey. The project aims to modernize mission critical computing by bringing Integrity/HP-UX technology to x86 servers, extending HP's strategy. This will allow customers to do mission critical computing on their terms with a variety of operating systems and applications, providing flexibility and choice. Intel supports the project as continuing innovation in Itanium and Xeon will allow HP and Intel to deliver customer-driven mission critical solutions. Industry analysts and users have praised Project Odyssey as a smart move that promises gains for HP customers.
1) The document discusses considerations for building a private cloud, including leveraging the transformational power of cloud computing to enable new business models, deliver IT without boundaries, and improve business agility.
2) It recommends mapping current applications and services to a cloud deployment strategy to prioritize workloads for migration to private, public, or hybrid clouds.
3) The evolution from current infrastructure to a cloud-based delivery model is described, starting with virtualization and advancing to consumption-based metering and automation of service delivery.
Expense Reduction Analysts provides a guide to reducing IT costs for businesses. The guide discusses topics such as green IT, office software alternatives to Microsoft, hosted IT and outsourcing services, and technology business management. Implementing strategies around these topics can help businesses reduce IT costs by up to 35% and improve the performance of their technology assets.
Digital Fuel IT Financial Management -Bus applications costvisibility_0911yisbat
IT Cost Management provides full visibility into the total costs of enterprise applications, including software licenses, maintenance fees, infrastructure costs, and more. This visibility allows organizations to (1) identify applications that could deliver significant cost savings through reduced service levels or outsourcing, (2) end maintenance for applications with high costs and low usage, and (3) eliminate inefficiencies in underlying infrastructure costs. IT Cost Management brings structure and transparency to application costs to help IT and business teams make smarter spending decisions aligned with business goals.
This document discusses how audio, video, and document conferencing services have become important business tools due to changes in business needs and improvements in technology. It outlines trends driving greater reliance on conferencing, such as an increasing need for real-time collaboration across geographic and organizational boundaries. It also describes how infrastructure upgrades and new conferencing products have enabled richer conferencing experiences by taking advantage of higher-capacity, more reliable networks. The document establishes conferencing services as crucial for enabling fast, effective communication in today's business environment.
Business Case on Leveraging convergence within IT, to simplify technology management, save costs and automate the delivery of services to business users
Many customers have deployed end-to-end workloads that span their enterprise or midsize organization. Multitier computing has taken hold, leveraging components of end-to-end workloads that span the computing systems of many departments and divisions in large enterprises and midsize businesses. Although the applications have "grown up" on separate servers — large and small — the overall business would benefit if they could be brought closer together.
This document discusses defining a blueprint for a smarter data center through flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and active monitoring and management. It outlines four ways to achieve this: 1) extending the life of existing infrastructure, 2) rationalizing infrastructure across the company through consolidation, 3) implementing flexible modular design, and 4) providing integrated IT and data center operations management. Analytics-based services can help assess infrastructure needs, model outcomes, automate processes, and manage operations to unlock greater value from data center investments. Case studies demonstrate benefits like reduced costs, deferred capital expenditures, and improved efficiency.
The document summarizes an IDC white paper on converged infrastructure. The key points are:
1) IT infrastructure has become highly complex over time, leading to rising management costs as organizations have had to integrate different systems. Server virtualization has helped contain hardware costs but not management overhead.
2) Converged infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking and management tools into a single system. This simplifies deployment and lowers management costs through automation.
3) Converged systems represent the natural evolution of IT infrastructure as different technologies gradually integrate over multiple technology cycles. Convergence enables more dynamic, efficient "private cloud" environments within organizations.
Green, Governance and Growth are the three quintessential features for a next generation data center; resulting in lower cost, better industry compliance and contribution to overall business growth.
HCL and EMC have joined hands to provide G3 data centers in post recession era helping CIOs to transform their Data Centers.
This whitepaper discusses how cloud adoption provides benefits beyond just financial return on investment (ROI). Moving to the cloud allows IT teams to focus less on managing infrastructure and more on innovation and strategic initiatives that can improve business operations. The cloud enables quicker application delivery and increased employee productivity, leading to greater business agility and competitive advantage over time. While cost savings are important, cloud computing allows for continuous business transformation through new ideas implemented by a more creative IT organization.
Cloud computing provides several key business benefits:
1) It lowers IT costs by increasing infrastructure utilization and automation.
2) It enables access to IT resources and applications on a flexible, "pay-as-you-go" basis.
3) It simplifies IT for end users by removing complexity and allowing access from any device.
Cloud adoption strategies vary depending on a company's size and industry dynamics, but cloud pilots can help organizations understand how cloud may address their business needs in a low-risk way.
This white paper discusses how cloud computing can drive value for enterprises by lowering IT costs and enabling innovation. Some key points:
1) Cloud computing provides on-demand, scalable access to computing resources and enables a pay-per-use model that can significantly lower both capital and operating costs for IT compared to maintaining physical infrastructure.
2) Standardizing applications and infrastructure on cloud platforms further drives down costs through improved efficiency and reduced complexity.
3) In addition to cost savings, cloud also allows organizations to innovate faster, access new markets more easily, and optimize existing IT investments through an elastic, globally available environment.
This document discusses the value of smarter datacenter services for IT organizations. As businesses look to innovate and grow beyond cost cutting in the next five years, IT will need to support new initiatives through an efficient and flexible datacenter strategy. While consolidation and cost reduction were priorities during the economic downturn, success now requires streamlining processes, reducing complexity, and improving time to market. Many IT organizations lack the in-house expertise to implement private clouds and face challenges balancing control with innovation. Achieving the right balance will require careful planning, ongoing monitoring, and leveraging extensive experience.
The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services over the next five years. As businesses look to grow and innovate following the economic downturn, IT will need to balance efficiency gains with flexibility to enable new initiatives. Datacenters of the future will require automation and standardized infrastructure that can adapt to changing workload demands. Many IT organizations currently lack the in-house expertise to implement private clouds and achieve this level of optimization, and may require external assistance to successfully transform their datacenters.
The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services over the next five years. As businesses look to grow and innovate following the economic downturn, IT will need to balance cost reduction with enabling new applications and infrastructure delivery models while supporting existing systems. This will require making datacenters more automated, standardized and flexible to respond to changing workload demands. The document outlines challenges such as the need for improved virtualization management, storage efficiencies and datacenter flexibility to adapt to business needs. It also notes that many IT organizations may lack the in-house expertise to effectively implement new technologies and delivery models for the datacenter.
The document discusses opportunities for IT organizations to optimize their datacenter services in the coming years. It notes that as businesses look to grow, IT will need to balance integrating new applications and infrastructure models while supporting existing systems. This will require increasing efficiency on both the IT and facilities sides through streamlining processes, reducing complexity, and improving time to market. The document outlines strategies for improving infrastructure resource efficiencies, storage efficiencies, and increasing datacenter flexibility to adapt to changing demand. It also notes that many IT organizations may require external expertise to implement new technologies and strategies as they work to enable business transformation.
This document discusses how to build a business case for data center transformation (DCT) to gain support from the C-suite. It recommends defining the current state of high costs and complexity, the future state of reduced costs and improved services through consolidation and standardization. The business case should show how DCT will reduce overall IT costs, shift spending to business priorities, and improve business continuity. Workshops are suggested to determine benefits, critical success factors, and clarify business and IT priorities to get projects started and gain stakeholder buy-in.
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
IBM offers server optimization and integration services to help companies reduce complexity in their server environments through a server consolidation efficiency study. The study helps define how to lower total IT costs, identifies opportunities to improve infrastructure flexibility, and supports moving forward with an optimization project. It creates a server strategy and roadmap to prepare for future needs while lowering hardware, maintenance, support and energy costs.
Enabling Storage Automation for Cloud ComputingNetApp
This paper looks at the requirements of both sets of customers and the challenges that each faces. It then overlays the NetApp strategy as a storage supplier in serving both sets of customers by providing policy-based storage automation and thus enabling IT service automation.
The new role of CIO, Borut Kolmanič, S&T SlovenijaS&T GROUP
The document discusses the changing role of the CIO. It notes that business demands are increasing while IT budgets are flat, and that CIOs must focus on both running IT operations and enabling business change. To succeed, CIOs need business knowledge, executive support, communication skills, and the ability to select projects that balance quick wins with long-term impacts. The document recommends CIOs optimize costs through services like cloud computing and outsourcing, create IT strategies aligned with business goals, and develop expertise in change management to help business processes change before implementing new technologies.
This document discusses the expanding role of service management in driving business innovation. Service management is taking on a greater role by encompassing the full service lifecycle, including IT operations, development, and understanding business requirements. Effective governance and an integrated service management framework can help ensure IT decisions are aligned with business objectives and deliver maximum value. This allows IT to better focus on creating value through new projects and services, while managing value through efficient and cost-effective operations.
This document discusses how standardization can help financial institutions become leaner, smarter, and more competitive. It outlines an 8-point strategy for standardizing business processes, consolidating applications and information, and simplifying infrastructure. This allows companies to free up capital spent on costly infrastructure and redirect it towards strategic initiatives. Standardization improves information sharing, flexibility, lowers risks, and reduces costs by eliminating redundant systems and fragmented data from acquisitions and decentralized decision making over time. The benefits of standardization include better competitive positioning, improved productivity, and a foundation for future growth.
Netmagic solutions, leading IT Managed service provider with Data centers & Cloud Computing in India fulfills your entire IT infrastructure requirements: from collocation services to dedicated hosting, diaster recovery & data Storage solutions.
How to Better Manage Your IT InfrastructureEdarat Group
1) Businesses are implementing infrastructure management strategies to keep their IT functioning effectively as business acceleration requires better management of information and resources.
2) For IT organizations, better infrastructure management results in high performance, seamless configuration, and strong security.
3) Non-IT companies can also benefit from effective infrastructure management through meeting business needs, ensuring operational efficiency, optimizing resource allocation, and adopting new technologies.
IBM's Transformation from Project to Program and Portfolio Management Member Content
- by William C. Britton, PMP
IBM Certified Executive Project Manager
To succeed, a number of project management processes, policies, and organizational constructs were established or reinforced to ensure consistent excellence in service delivery.
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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.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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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.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
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.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
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.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
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.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
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.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210744055/IBM-System-x-iDataPlex-dx360-M4
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.
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Data center consolidationrestructures your IT costs for continued growth
1. IBM Global Technology Services November 2010
Thought Leadership White Paper
Data center consolidation
restructures your IT costs
for continued growth
New discovery tools determine logical and physical move
dependencies to help limit risk
2. 2 Data center consolidation restructures your IT costs for continued growth
Executive summary the services that IBM provides to plan and execute the move
Cost reduction. It’s in our blood. It helps us get through the of applications, data and IT equipment from one data center
tough years, and it helps us increase profits during the good to another data center, locally or across geographies.
years. Reducing costs is always a smart strategy because a
more operationally efficient data center can provide the foun- Consolidation can drive down both
dation for the future growth of the enterprise. strategic and tactical costs
In our work with some of the largest business enterprises in
Many CIOs and IT managers may be reexamining their data the world, IBM has found that between 10 percent and
center portfolios and restructuring them for growth. Some are 15 percent operational savings are possible for each data cen-
likely focused on contraction of the portfolio to reduce costs; ter consolidated, depending on how many sites we consolidate
others may view efficient expansion or new data centers as and certain other factors.1
keys to success.
So it comes as no surprise that many CIOs view consolidation Data center consolidation helps provide
to a central technology organization as the future model for strategic and tactical cost savings.
data center operations. Centralized infrastructures and
processes enable shared services optimization that, in turn,
The data center portfolios of many companies have grown
provides economies of scale to cut costs and increase the
significantly through mergers, acquisitions and geographic
return on IT investment. When considering how to derive
expansion—external forces that will continue to affect the IT
greater ROI from IT, a significant majority of the 2,500 CIOs
infrastructure. In this environment, data center consolidation
we surveyed—75 percent—anticipates having a strongly cen-
is designed to provide strategic cost savings, reducing high
tralized infrastructure in five years.1
infrastructure costs by relocating away from expensive data
center leases or ineffective locations. Tactically, consolidation
This paper describes the challenges infrastructure managers
can improve operational efficiencies, reduce the assets man-
face when relocating data centers, the tools available from
aged and improve resource utilization.
IBM research to help lessen the business risk of the move, and
3. IBM Global Technology Services 3
But consolidation is more than just a cost-saving measure; it is
Today Target a strategic initiative that allows IT managers to achieve opera-
tional efficiencies while reducing the amount of time they
Infrastructure upgrades spend managing the ongoing technology environment so they
Give back to business,
enable business expansion can focus more on applications development and other strate-
Data center expenses
or improve service quality
Real estate costs gic projects.
IT infrastructure Transformation costs This is an important shift in where time is spent because our
Infrastructure upgrades
Utility costs Real estate costs survey found that today’s CIOs spend an impressive 55 per-
IT infrastructure
Utility costs
cent of their time on value-enhancing activities, such as creat-
Labor costs
Labor costs ing and generating buy in for innovative plans, implementing
Network costs Network costs
new technologies and business initiatives, and managing non-
technology business issues.1
Figure 1: Consolidation can yield both strategic and tactical cost savings.
It’s a good time to move—but not by
IBM’s own consolidation experience bears this out. In the
10 years from 1997 to 2007, IBM consolidated the total num-
yourself
Competitive companies know that now is the time to restruc-
ber of data centers used to manage our own business from
ture their data center portfolios to support business growth.
235 to 12 in all geographies, consolidated from 31 different
Yet application availability must also be maintained in a cost-
networks to one globally managed network, and reduced
effective manner during the migration.
the number of deployed applications from more than
15,000 to just 4,700. The operational cost savings has totaled
You also have to consider whether your IT staff has any
US$1.5 billion over the past five years.1
significant experience in application and data migration and
whether your staff is current on the latest planning and imple-
Restructure to grow mentation techniques. Tasks such as provisioning new servers
The cost savings provided by data center consolidation are
or managing tape drives are part of the day-to-day operations
attractive by themselves. This is especially true when you con-
of a data center. Data center consolidations or relocations,
sider IBM research that indicates that as much as 70 percent
however, are major events that require specialized knowledge
of IT budgets is spent on maintaining existing environments.2
to make them go smoothly, provide desired benefits and mini-
mize the impact to your business.
4. 4 Data center consolidation restructures your IT costs for continued growth
IBM IT Facilities Consolidation and Relocation Services –
Data center consolidation drives application growth
data center consolidation and relocation migrates applications,
A major global bank needed to reduce time to market for
data, and IT equipment between data centers while helping to
new applications, optimize its existing workloads across
reduce risk and provide a seamless transition for end users by
36 data centers and reduce its overall costs while improv-
facilitating your ability to: ing resiliency and security. With the help of IBM, the bank
consolidated those data centers into one production and
● Move dependent applications and equipment together one business continuity and recovery services center.
● Meet critical application availability requirements by using IBM also helped establish an enterprise command center
specialized data migration techniques to manage and control all of the bank’s data center
● Reduce cost and improve operational efficiencies by helping operations.
to centralize your IT environment With consolidation, the bank achieved US$180 million
● Limit risk by leveraging your organization, experienced annual operational cost savings with a security-rich envi-
IBM relocation practitioners and third parties ronment and 99.95 percent availability. Moreover, the com-
● Allow IT operations to focus efforts and resources on more pany improved its time to market for new banking services
critical operational areas in core banking, commercial lending and Internet banking.
Consolidation meant that the bank’s IT managers could
This service provides the planning and execution of moves of now focus their staff and resources on developing new
applications; data and IT equipment, such as servers and stor- applications to drive revenue growth. By restructuring its
age arrays; and the data center infrastructure, such as racks, data center portfolio, the bank is now well positioned
and among one of the 20 global banks based on market
power systems and cooling systems. These moves can help you
capitalization.
move within a data center, from one data center to another
data center or across geographies.
5. IBM Global Technology Services 5
Help ensure a seamless, low-risk
migration for end users Assessment discovery Transition plan Implementation
If you’ve made the decision to migrate a data center, you real-
Document steps for a Determine how to execute Rehearse and implement
ize that a move is more complex than simply physically relo- flawless execution to reduce risk the move plans
cating a few servers from one location to the next. You have to • Identify critical application
availability requirements
• Select migration approach
optimizing for risk, cost and
• Remediate unsupported
environments for the move
• Document inventory of data, schedule to meet availability • Rehearse move day and fall
think about the risks to the availability of data and applications applications and IT equipment
• Identify physical and logical
objectives
• Develop risk mitigation strategies
back plans
• Migrate data on-line almost
dependencies and plans instantaneously to meet
during the move. Depending on the industry, the revenue cost • Determine migration approaches
to meet availability requirements
• Develop plans to fix
unsupported environments
application availability requirements
• Implement a move day
• Assess skill and resource • Develop detailed migration and command center
of a single application outage could run from the hundreds of requirements fall back plans • Execute migration plans
• Document Lessons Learned
thousands of dollars to millions of dollars—per hour. You have
to be confident that your migration strategy can anticipate and
avoid these crippling unplanned outages.
Figure 2: A three-phased migration methodology helps ensure that details
are covered.
Consolidation and relocation help drive
Assessment discovery
down cost—but end users don’t want to
This phase is intended to document steps for a successful exe-
know they have been moved. cution to identify critical application availability requirements
and inventory the data, applications and IT equipment.
And your customers—internal or external—have decreasing Physical and logical dependencies are determined to make
tolerance for downtime in accessing their essential applica- sure that applications and their equipment come down and
tions, even for planned events such as migrations. Acceptable move together.
application outage windows—the amount of time and fre-
quency an application may be unavailable—are getting shorter Affinity groups that are applications, data and equipment with
and shorter. Long outages to migrate data center equipment similar characteristics and business requirements are identi-
are simply not an option. fied. Multiple affinity groups are then moved together, reduc-
ing project cost, time and business impact.
A three-phase methodology for successful
migrations With the application dependencies revealed, the IBM team
IBM has developed a three-phase approach to migrating appli- will develop possible migration approaches that satisfy budget
cations and equipment that helps ensure that all elements of requirements and time constraints outlined by the client. The
the project are managed successfully. IBM team will also develop a top-level expense estimate as
well as skill and resource requirements.
6. 6 Data center consolidation restructures your IT costs for continued growth
The output of the assessment discovery phase is a project IBM provides project management teams with the skills and
review and recommended decision to progress with the resources necessary to meet your project objectives while at
migration. the same time managing expenditures to initial financial
estimates.
Transition plan
During the transition planning phase, IBM determines the After the implementation is complete, a post-project review
best path to execute migration with minimal risk. IBM makes documents the lessons learned to help plan future data center
recommendations on migration approaches to select a final projects and support daily operations.
approach to reduce risk and optimize cost and the project
schedule.
Safely migrate to a new data center in only four months
Ensuring that applications move successfully within predefined
A waste disposal company that serves more than
outage windows is more complex than you might expect. 600,000 residential and 60,000 commercial customers in
IBM will build an experienced team with the right platform more than 50 communities needed to implement a new
architecture and relocation project management skills to data center and then safely migrate IT equipment quickly
reduce business and technical risk. and safely. IBM Global Technology Services helped the
company build an energy-efficient, scalable and resilient
After you decide on the approach, IBM finalizes detailed data center and relocated its equipment from the old
migration plans and updates expense estimates, if necessary. location in only four months. As part of the project,
The output of the transition plan is a detailed planning, IBM helped define requirements, scout locations, design
budget and timeline document that is ready for and implement the new data center, and then safely
migrate data and applications without any unplanned
implementation.
service interruptions.
Implementation At completion, the company had a future-ready data cen-
In the implementation phase, IBM rehearses and then ter scoped, designed and delivered by IBM. It gives the
implements the move plans. This can take anywhere from a client improved availability through enhanced redundancy.
The expanded data center capacity supports a doubling
few weeks to several months, depending on the nature of the
of the client’s business. And it reduces operating costs up
project. Before the move, we develop plans to remediate
to 20 percent through improved efficiency. The client
unsupported environments and rehearse move and fallback
reported that “after the move, a number of users came
plans in order to identify and resolve potential issues. We back and said this project seemed like it was flawless and
establish a move day command center to address unforeseen went just like we told the users it would go.”
issues. All are key elements of a comprehensive plan.