This document provides a summary and analysis of the total cost of ownership for extending messaging platform availability using IBM Domino or Microsoft Exchange across different user estate sizes. It finds that IBM Domino solutions are up to 52% cheaper than Microsoft Exchange solutions based on infrastructure and support costs. When factoring in licensing costs, particularly for Microsoft Office, the savings are even greater for IBM Domino. The document outlines its methodology for analyzing platform, licensing, and support costs over a three year period for single server, clustered, and disaster recovery deployment scenarios.
THE COST OF A NEW ADVANCED COLLABORATION PLATFORMdominion
This document explores the total cost of ownership for implementing advanced collaboration platforms from IBM and Microsoft over a three-year period. It finds that IBM solutions are generally more cost effective, with potential savings of up to 37% compared to Microsoft, driven largely by lower licensing and support costs. When Microsoft Office licensing is included, the savings are even greater for IBM. Across scenarios of 500-4000 users, IBM yields cost leadership at all estate sizes.
THE COST OF MOVING TO ADVANCED COLLABORATIONdominion
This document analyzes and compares the total cost of ownership for implementing advanced collaboration solutions using IBM and Microsoft platforms across different user estate sizes. It finds that IBM solutions are up to 37% cheaper for infrastructure and support costs. When factoring in licensing costs, particularly for Microsoft Office, the savings are even more significant for IBM. Implementing instant messaging can save up to 40% with IBM, while basic document sharing saves 30%, and a full collaboration platform saves 18-27% compared to Microsoft.
The Always-Up-To-Date solution in Exchange Server 2003 allows mobile users to automatically synchronize email, calendar, and contacts between their Windows Mobile devices and an Exchange server. This eliminates manual synchronization and ensures information is always up-to-date. It benefits users by saving time and improving battery life. For mobile operators, it attracts enterprises, adds value as a service, increases revenue per user, and creates opportunities for additional business services. The solution is easy for IT staff and mobile operators to set up and supports efficient use of various mobile networks and devices.
Connect2013 id506 hadr ideas for social businessLuis Guirigay
This document discusses high availability and disaster recovery options for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. It provides an overview of key concepts like load balancing, high availability, and disaster recovery. It then summarizes specific techniques for each database platform, including clustering, log shipping, mirroring, and automatic client rerouting. The goal is to outline strategies for maintaining continuous access to data and applications in the event of planned or unplanned outages.
Energizing IBM Notes Domino Enterprises: Social, Mobile, Cloud and Mail NextLuis Guirigay
The document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on energizing IBM Notes Domino enterprises through social, mobile, cloud and mail capabilities. The summary highlights IBM's leadership in messaging and social business, new features in IBM Notes 9 including mobile and web user experience options, the IBM SmartCloud Notes and Engage offerings, promotions for customers to move workloads to the cloud including the "Bridge to Cloud" renewal option, deploying SmartCloud Notes, application options like XPages, and IBM's innovation with IBM Mail Next.
This document provides guidance on migrating from an on-premises mail solution to IBM SmartCloud Notes. It discusses hybrid implementation and configuration, including reference architectures and common configurations. It also covers account activation and testing the hybrid configuration. Various migration options and processes are compared, including when to use SmartCloud Notes service-only vs. hybrid configurations and when to use different migration tools.
IBM Platform for Social Business IamLUG 2013Luis Guirigay
Luis Guirigay is an IT architect with 15 years of experience working with IBM technologies. He is a published author, IBM certified instructor, and consultant. The document discusses IBM's platform for social business and how organizations can use social media internally. It provides examples of how companies have used IBM social business solutions to increase collaboration, knowledge sharing, and customer insights.
Granite Lotus User Group November 2012 ICS UpdatesLuis Guirigay
The document discusses an upcoming IBM event about IBM Collaboration Solutions products. It provides information on IBM Notes and Domino Social Edition, IBM Sametime 8.5 updates, and new features of IBM Sametime "Next" including improved mobile access, social integration, and a new user interface. The presentation aims to address concerns organizations have with migrating from Notes/Domino and encourages engaging IBM for assistance.
THE COST OF A NEW ADVANCED COLLABORATION PLATFORMdominion
This document explores the total cost of ownership for implementing advanced collaboration platforms from IBM and Microsoft over a three-year period. It finds that IBM solutions are generally more cost effective, with potential savings of up to 37% compared to Microsoft, driven largely by lower licensing and support costs. When Microsoft Office licensing is included, the savings are even greater for IBM. Across scenarios of 500-4000 users, IBM yields cost leadership at all estate sizes.
THE COST OF MOVING TO ADVANCED COLLABORATIONdominion
This document analyzes and compares the total cost of ownership for implementing advanced collaboration solutions using IBM and Microsoft platforms across different user estate sizes. It finds that IBM solutions are up to 37% cheaper for infrastructure and support costs. When factoring in licensing costs, particularly for Microsoft Office, the savings are even more significant for IBM. Implementing instant messaging can save up to 40% with IBM, while basic document sharing saves 30%, and a full collaboration platform saves 18-27% compared to Microsoft.
The Always-Up-To-Date solution in Exchange Server 2003 allows mobile users to automatically synchronize email, calendar, and contacts between their Windows Mobile devices and an Exchange server. This eliminates manual synchronization and ensures information is always up-to-date. It benefits users by saving time and improving battery life. For mobile operators, it attracts enterprises, adds value as a service, increases revenue per user, and creates opportunities for additional business services. The solution is easy for IT staff and mobile operators to set up and supports efficient use of various mobile networks and devices.
Connect2013 id506 hadr ideas for social businessLuis Guirigay
This document discusses high availability and disaster recovery options for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. It provides an overview of key concepts like load balancing, high availability, and disaster recovery. It then summarizes specific techniques for each database platform, including clustering, log shipping, mirroring, and automatic client rerouting. The goal is to outline strategies for maintaining continuous access to data and applications in the event of planned or unplanned outages.
Energizing IBM Notes Domino Enterprises: Social, Mobile, Cloud and Mail NextLuis Guirigay
The document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on energizing IBM Notes Domino enterprises through social, mobile, cloud and mail capabilities. The summary highlights IBM's leadership in messaging and social business, new features in IBM Notes 9 including mobile and web user experience options, the IBM SmartCloud Notes and Engage offerings, promotions for customers to move workloads to the cloud including the "Bridge to Cloud" renewal option, deploying SmartCloud Notes, application options like XPages, and IBM's innovation with IBM Mail Next.
This document provides guidance on migrating from an on-premises mail solution to IBM SmartCloud Notes. It discusses hybrid implementation and configuration, including reference architectures and common configurations. It also covers account activation and testing the hybrid configuration. Various migration options and processes are compared, including when to use SmartCloud Notes service-only vs. hybrid configurations and when to use different migration tools.
IBM Platform for Social Business IamLUG 2013Luis Guirigay
Luis Guirigay is an IT architect with 15 years of experience working with IBM technologies. He is a published author, IBM certified instructor, and consultant. The document discusses IBM's platform for social business and how organizations can use social media internally. It provides examples of how companies have used IBM social business solutions to increase collaboration, knowledge sharing, and customer insights.
Granite Lotus User Group November 2012 ICS UpdatesLuis Guirigay
The document discusses an upcoming IBM event about IBM Collaboration Solutions products. It provides information on IBM Notes and Domino Social Edition, IBM Sametime 8.5 updates, and new features of IBM Sametime "Next" including improved mobile access, social integration, and a new user interface. The presentation aims to address concerns organizations have with migrating from Notes/Domino and encourages engaging IBM for assistance.
IBM ConnectED 2015 - BP103: Solving the Weird, the Obscure, and the Mind-BendingLuis Guirigay
When you’re in the trenches every day, you see a lot of really interesting problems which you are charged with solving. This session will cover issues that are weird and obscure in nature and caused some mind bending to resolve.
The document discusses computer-based supply chain management and information systems integration. It begins with an overview of supply chains, explaining that they involve the flow of materials, information, and money into, within, and out of an organization. Problems often arise in complex supply chains that can result in delays, customer dissatisfaction, lost sales, and high costs to fix issues. The chapter then outlines how IT-based solutions like ERP systems help manage supply chains and resolve problems. It also describes how e-commerce can improve supply chain management and fulfill orders.
The document discusses features of Voxtron Communication Center (VCC), a multi-channel customer interaction solution. Key points include:
1) VCC supports various interaction channels including voice, email, SMS, fax, and web chat to provide self-service and reduce call volumes.
2) Features include advanced routing, remote agent functionality, integrated voice recording, out of the box integrations, powerful dashboards, and an advanced dialer.
3) The solution aims to drive customer advocacy through optimized multi-channel interactions and agent empowerment.
This white paper discusses the challenges of maintaining an internal fax infrastructure and argues that cloud-based fax services provide a lower-cost alternative. It notes that maintaining internal fax servers is costly, requiring significant spending on hardware, software, support personnel, and telecom providers globally. As IT budgets are cut, companies are reconsidering these costs. The paper predicts that the market for internet fax services will double from $750 million in 2008 to $1.5 billion by 2013 as more enterprises outsource fax to cloud providers and save money.
The white paper discusses the benefits of moving from an internal fax infrastructure to a cloud-based fax service model. It notes that maintaining an internal fax server infrastructure is costly, requiring investments in hardware, software, support personnel, and regional telecom providers. For global enterprises, an internal model adds complexity and expense. Meanwhile, cloud fax services provide the same level of quality and control at lower costs through economies of scale. The paper outlines five key benefits of cloud fax services, including dramatic cost reductions, a simplified infrastructure, platform agnosticism, flexible integration capabilities, and access to more extensive services. It also explains how cloud fax services address challenges like managing a global infrastructure, ensuring security and compliance,
Key Benefits of Virtualization:
*Recover quickly from disasters such as virus attacks, software bugs, and network outages
*Reduce management costs by up to 300%
*Save up to twice the cost of virtualization in power consumption savings alone
*Drasically reduce cooling and footprint needs
Small Business Guide to Unified CommunicationsShoreTel
This document provides an overview of unified communications and how it can benefit small businesses. It discusses what unified communications is, how it can help with key business challenges around expenses, customer service, competition and attracting employees. It also provides best practices for evaluating a unified communications system, including considering both hard quantifiable benefits and softer benefits around productivity. The document is intended to help small businesses understand how unified communications can provide business value.
Learn about "Comparing Virtualization Methods for Business"study that has identified critical business and performance metrics that can be used to understand the advantages and key strategies that will help an organization to choose the optimal virtualization method. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Biscom's exclusive business continuity solution combining an enterprise fax server with hosted cloud fax on-demand into a seamless identical solution for "always on" mission critical faxing.
The document is a 2009 Cloud Computing Trends Report that summarizes the results of a survey of 644 respondents on their views and plans regarding cloud computing. Key findings include that the top three drivers for adopting cloud services are similar across company sizes and primarily include cost savings, uptime/availability, and performance. Security is the top concern for cloud computing providers to overcome. Approximately one third of respondents expect cloud computing to impact their company within 12 months.
The document summarizes IBM's Rational Development and Test Environment as a Managed Service (RD&T aaMS) offering. Some key points:
- IBM will oversee configuration and implementation of IBM software products in their data centers, monitor them for 24/7 availability, and provide infrastructure support.
- Customers can access the software through the internet or their internal networks. IBM assigns a Client Success Manager to ensure successful deployment.
- The service reduces upfront IT costs, alleviates day-to-day maintenance responsibilities, and provides ongoing expertise from IBM to help customers maximize value.
Modernizing Your IMS Environment Without Rewriting Your ApplicationsPrecisely
IBM’s IMS database has been embedded in the mainframe environments of global corporations for decades, supporting mission-critical mainframe applications with customized business rules.
Re-platforming or rewriting these applications is a risky and cost prohibitive undertaking, and not one that is for the faint of heart. CIOs recognize the need to modernize in order to ensure the long-term viability of these applications, but identifying a low-risk and cost-effective method for moving from IMS to Db2 is a huge challenge.
View this webinar on-demand as we explore:
• The business benefits of migrating from IMS to Db2
• How Syncsort’s Elevate IMS product provides low-risk, efficient tools to transparently migrate from IMS to Db2 without application changes
• How to develop an internal business case that positions the overall cost benefits of this low risk migration strategy
IBM & TechM on TMF ZOOM Catalyst - Zero-touch Orchestration Operations and Ma...Vinay Rajagopal
IBM and Tech Mahindra have developed a solution called "Recover First, Resolve Next" that demonstrates closed loop control for automated fault recovery and remediation of service performance issues in hybrid networks. The solution provides seamless integration between OSS and a multi-vendor NFV layer to manage both traditional and virtualized network infrastructure. It utilizes Tech Mahindra's virtual Evolved Packet Core and IBM's NetCool products to provide end-to-end service assurance through performance analytics and automated fault recovery.
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Located just north of Dallas,Collin County turned to IBM Premier Business Sirius Computer Solutions for a complete infrastructure solution. Sirius Computer Solutions has been providing IT solutions built around IBM products for 30 years. For Collin County, the solution included 26 IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM blades optimized for virtualization with VMware, and an IBM System Storage N6040 enterprise disk storage system.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Recover First, Resolve Next – Towards Closed Loop Control for Managing Hybrid...Vinay Rajagopal
This document discusses a joint solution by IBM and Tech Mahindra to automate fault recovery and service performance issues in hybrid networks containing both traditional and virtualized network functions. The solution demonstrates "recover first, resolve next" through closed-loop control driven by service level agreements. It uses analytics and standard APIs to integrate orchestration and management between virtualized network functions, their managers, and OSS systems from multiple vendors. The solution aims to help communication service providers automate operations and maintain service quality as they transition networks to a more virtualized, cloud-based infrastructure.
1) China Telecom implemented an internal cloud computing model based on IBM technology to reduce time to market for new products from 3-4 months to just 2-3 days.
2) The solution included IBM Power servers virtualized with IBM PowerVM and managed as a private cloud with IBM Systems Director VMControl to improve utilization of resources.
3) This allowed China Telecom to consolidate hardware and reduce costs by over 50% while improving flexibility to develop new multi-department products and services faster than competitors.
J&B Group was facing server sprawl issues with 20 Dell servers running various applications. They implemented an IBM xSeries virtualization solution with VMware software to consolidate servers. This reduced their server footprint to 6 virtual servers on one xSeries 440 system. It provided benefits like smaller data center footprint, lower maintenance costs, improved disaster recovery capabilities and faster ROI of less than a year. They plan to add another xSeries 445 system for high availability and split the workload between the two systems.
The document discusses how cloud implementation can maximize ROI for laboratories. It explains that adopting a thin-client architecture hosted on the cloud provides benefits like high storage capacity, cost effectiveness, strong data security, and the ability for multiple simultaneous users. The cloud's pay-as-you-go model allows laboratories to access laboratory informatics software without large upfront hardware costs. Overall, the cloud enables laboratories to streamline operations while minimizing total cost of ownership.
Comparing approaches: Running database workloads on Dell EMC and Microsoft hy...Principled Technologies
Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” an organization can implement and make use of the cloud to advance digital transformation initiatives, it’s a matter of “when.” For many, leveraging the on-demand aspects of off-premises public cloud may seem like the fastest way to get to cloud, but your organization can wind up overpaying by settling on this approach exclusively. We found that a Dell EMC on-premises Microsoft hybrid cloud solution could reduce your cloud costs by as much as 46 percent over five years, while enabling greater flexibility in overall cloud strategy. The savings gained in our scenario could pay off the CapEx investment in as few as 29 months. Additional cloud financing options from Dell Technologies can offset large capital expense, potentially making hybrid cloud implementation more manageable. A Dell EMC on-premises Microsoft hybrid cloud solution can accelerate business initiatives and prepare your organization for the future with a cost-efficient approach that saves money while bringing much needed flexibility to your workloads and applications.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)IJERD Editor
This document reviews data security, accountability, and load balancing in cloud computing. It discusses how encryption, a trusted third party auditor, and effective resource utilization can help address issues related to data security, monitoring user access to data in the cloud, and reducing latency. The document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts and models before reviewing approaches to securing data, ensuring accountability for data access, and balancing loads across cloud resources. It analyzes parameters for evaluating load balancing algorithms and categorizes common static and dynamic algorithms.
IBM ConnectED 2015 - BP103: Solving the Weird, the Obscure, and the Mind-BendingLuis Guirigay
When you’re in the trenches every day, you see a lot of really interesting problems which you are charged with solving. This session will cover issues that are weird and obscure in nature and caused some mind bending to resolve.
The document discusses computer-based supply chain management and information systems integration. It begins with an overview of supply chains, explaining that they involve the flow of materials, information, and money into, within, and out of an organization. Problems often arise in complex supply chains that can result in delays, customer dissatisfaction, lost sales, and high costs to fix issues. The chapter then outlines how IT-based solutions like ERP systems help manage supply chains and resolve problems. It also describes how e-commerce can improve supply chain management and fulfill orders.
The document discusses features of Voxtron Communication Center (VCC), a multi-channel customer interaction solution. Key points include:
1) VCC supports various interaction channels including voice, email, SMS, fax, and web chat to provide self-service and reduce call volumes.
2) Features include advanced routing, remote agent functionality, integrated voice recording, out of the box integrations, powerful dashboards, and an advanced dialer.
3) The solution aims to drive customer advocacy through optimized multi-channel interactions and agent empowerment.
This white paper discusses the challenges of maintaining an internal fax infrastructure and argues that cloud-based fax services provide a lower-cost alternative. It notes that maintaining internal fax servers is costly, requiring significant spending on hardware, software, support personnel, and telecom providers globally. As IT budgets are cut, companies are reconsidering these costs. The paper predicts that the market for internet fax services will double from $750 million in 2008 to $1.5 billion by 2013 as more enterprises outsource fax to cloud providers and save money.
The white paper discusses the benefits of moving from an internal fax infrastructure to a cloud-based fax service model. It notes that maintaining an internal fax server infrastructure is costly, requiring investments in hardware, software, support personnel, and regional telecom providers. For global enterprises, an internal model adds complexity and expense. Meanwhile, cloud fax services provide the same level of quality and control at lower costs through economies of scale. The paper outlines five key benefits of cloud fax services, including dramatic cost reductions, a simplified infrastructure, platform agnosticism, flexible integration capabilities, and access to more extensive services. It also explains how cloud fax services address challenges like managing a global infrastructure, ensuring security and compliance,
Key Benefits of Virtualization:
*Recover quickly from disasters such as virus attacks, software bugs, and network outages
*Reduce management costs by up to 300%
*Save up to twice the cost of virtualization in power consumption savings alone
*Drasically reduce cooling and footprint needs
Small Business Guide to Unified CommunicationsShoreTel
This document provides an overview of unified communications and how it can benefit small businesses. It discusses what unified communications is, how it can help with key business challenges around expenses, customer service, competition and attracting employees. It also provides best practices for evaluating a unified communications system, including considering both hard quantifiable benefits and softer benefits around productivity. The document is intended to help small businesses understand how unified communications can provide business value.
Learn about "Comparing Virtualization Methods for Business"study that has identified critical business and performance metrics that can be used to understand the advantages and key strategies that will help an organization to choose the optimal virtualization method. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Biscom's exclusive business continuity solution combining an enterprise fax server with hosted cloud fax on-demand into a seamless identical solution for "always on" mission critical faxing.
The document is a 2009 Cloud Computing Trends Report that summarizes the results of a survey of 644 respondents on their views and plans regarding cloud computing. Key findings include that the top three drivers for adopting cloud services are similar across company sizes and primarily include cost savings, uptime/availability, and performance. Security is the top concern for cloud computing providers to overcome. Approximately one third of respondents expect cloud computing to impact their company within 12 months.
The document summarizes IBM's Rational Development and Test Environment as a Managed Service (RD&T aaMS) offering. Some key points:
- IBM will oversee configuration and implementation of IBM software products in their data centers, monitor them for 24/7 availability, and provide infrastructure support.
- Customers can access the software through the internet or their internal networks. IBM assigns a Client Success Manager to ensure successful deployment.
- The service reduces upfront IT costs, alleviates day-to-day maintenance responsibilities, and provides ongoing expertise from IBM to help customers maximize value.
Modernizing Your IMS Environment Without Rewriting Your ApplicationsPrecisely
IBM’s IMS database has been embedded in the mainframe environments of global corporations for decades, supporting mission-critical mainframe applications with customized business rules.
Re-platforming or rewriting these applications is a risky and cost prohibitive undertaking, and not one that is for the faint of heart. CIOs recognize the need to modernize in order to ensure the long-term viability of these applications, but identifying a low-risk and cost-effective method for moving from IMS to Db2 is a huge challenge.
View this webinar on-demand as we explore:
• The business benefits of migrating from IMS to Db2
• How Syncsort’s Elevate IMS product provides low-risk, efficient tools to transparently migrate from IMS to Db2 without application changes
• How to develop an internal business case that positions the overall cost benefits of this low risk migration strategy
IBM & TechM on TMF ZOOM Catalyst - Zero-touch Orchestration Operations and Ma...Vinay Rajagopal
IBM and Tech Mahindra have developed a solution called "Recover First, Resolve Next" that demonstrates closed loop control for automated fault recovery and remediation of service performance issues in hybrid networks. The solution provides seamless integration between OSS and a multi-vendor NFV layer to manage both traditional and virtualized network infrastructure. It utilizes Tech Mahindra's virtual Evolved Packet Core and IBM's NetCool products to provide end-to-end service assurance through performance analytics and automated fault recovery.
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Located just north of Dallas,Collin County turned to IBM Premier Business Sirius Computer Solutions for a complete infrastructure solution. Sirius Computer Solutions has been providing IT solutions built around IBM products for 30 years. For Collin County, the solution included 26 IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM blades optimized for virtualization with VMware, and an IBM System Storage N6040 enterprise disk storage system.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Recover First, Resolve Next – Towards Closed Loop Control for Managing Hybrid...Vinay Rajagopal
This document discusses a joint solution by IBM and Tech Mahindra to automate fault recovery and service performance issues in hybrid networks containing both traditional and virtualized network functions. The solution demonstrates "recover first, resolve next" through closed-loop control driven by service level agreements. It uses analytics and standard APIs to integrate orchestration and management between virtualized network functions, their managers, and OSS systems from multiple vendors. The solution aims to help communication service providers automate operations and maintain service quality as they transition networks to a more virtualized, cloud-based infrastructure.
1) China Telecom implemented an internal cloud computing model based on IBM technology to reduce time to market for new products from 3-4 months to just 2-3 days.
2) The solution included IBM Power servers virtualized with IBM PowerVM and managed as a private cloud with IBM Systems Director VMControl to improve utilization of resources.
3) This allowed China Telecom to consolidate hardware and reduce costs by over 50% while improving flexibility to develop new multi-department products and services faster than competitors.
J&B Group was facing server sprawl issues with 20 Dell servers running various applications. They implemented an IBM xSeries virtualization solution with VMware software to consolidate servers. This reduced their server footprint to 6 virtual servers on one xSeries 440 system. It provided benefits like smaller data center footprint, lower maintenance costs, improved disaster recovery capabilities and faster ROI of less than a year. They plan to add another xSeries 445 system for high availability and split the workload between the two systems.
The document discusses how cloud implementation can maximize ROI for laboratories. It explains that adopting a thin-client architecture hosted on the cloud provides benefits like high storage capacity, cost effectiveness, strong data security, and the ability for multiple simultaneous users. The cloud's pay-as-you-go model allows laboratories to access laboratory informatics software without large upfront hardware costs. Overall, the cloud enables laboratories to streamline operations while minimizing total cost of ownership.
Comparing approaches: Running database workloads on Dell EMC and Microsoft hy...Principled Technologies
Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” an organization can implement and make use of the cloud to advance digital transformation initiatives, it’s a matter of “when.” For many, leveraging the on-demand aspects of off-premises public cloud may seem like the fastest way to get to cloud, but your organization can wind up overpaying by settling on this approach exclusively. We found that a Dell EMC on-premises Microsoft hybrid cloud solution could reduce your cloud costs by as much as 46 percent over five years, while enabling greater flexibility in overall cloud strategy. The savings gained in our scenario could pay off the CapEx investment in as few as 29 months. Additional cloud financing options from Dell Technologies can offset large capital expense, potentially making hybrid cloud implementation more manageable. A Dell EMC on-premises Microsoft hybrid cloud solution can accelerate business initiatives and prepare your organization for the future with a cost-efficient approach that saves money while bringing much needed flexibility to your workloads and applications.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)IJERD Editor
This document reviews data security, accountability, and load balancing in cloud computing. It discusses how encryption, a trusted third party auditor, and effective resource utilization can help address issues related to data security, monitoring user access to data in the cloud, and reducing latency. The document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts and models before reviewing approaches to securing data, ensuring accountability for data access, and balancing loads across cloud resources. It analyzes parameters for evaluating load balancing algorithms and categorizes common static and dynamic algorithms.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its benefits of reduced costs and increased storage capabilities. It describes the three cloud computing models of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Public clouds are owned by third parties and offer economies of scale, while private clouds are built exclusively for a single enterprise and offer greater security and control. Hybrid clouds combine public and private models. The document also outlines some challenges of cloud computing around data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its benefits and challenges. It discusses the different cloud computing models of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Public clouds offer economies of scale but limited customization, while private clouds have more control but require companies to manage their own infrastructure. Hybrid clouds combine public and private models. The main benefits are reduced costs, increased storage, and flexibility. However, key challenges include concerns around data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance restrictions.
This document provides an overview of client/server based computing and thin client computing. It discusses:
- The basics of client/server architecture and how it works to distribute processing between clients and servers.
- The benefits of server-based computing such as easier management, security, and lower costs compared to traditional desktop computing.
- What thin client computing is and how it stores applications and data on central servers rather than individual client devices, reducing costs and management needs.
- The key components of thin client solutions including terminal servers, thin clients, and communication protocols.
- How thin clients operate by connecting to terminal servers and only receiving screen updates rather than processing information locally.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing basics. It defines cloud computing as delivering computational resources like software and hardware as a service over the internet. Key aspects covered include the origin and evolution of cloud computing from the 1960s to present day, cloud components like clients, data centers and distributed servers, essential cloud characteristics, and architectural influences on cloud computing including high performance computing, utility computing, and autonomic computing. It also discusses service consolidation in computing.
Business case study how one product deployed in 3 diverse enterprises reaped ...Mithi SkyConnect
Business Case Study: Mithi's Email and Collaboration Server Software deployed across 3 large enterprises from Manufacturing, Telecom, Defense sectors having diverse requirements, reaped multiple benefits.
The document discusses server virtualization and consolidation in enterprise data centers. It notes that many servers are underutilized but some become overloaded during peaks, and server consolidation aims to increase utilization while maintaining performance. Two main virtualization technologies are hypervisor-based (e.g. VMware, Xen) and operating system-level (e.g. OpenVZ, Linux VServer). The document evaluates the performance and scalability of a multi-tier application running on these virtualization platforms under different consolidation scenarios. It also examines the impact on underlying system metrics to understand virtualization overhead.
This document discusses how to build a private cloud on IBM Power Systems using Tivoli Service Management software. A private cloud can provide cloud-like attributes like self-service provisioning, monitoring, and chargeback within a company's internal IT environment. Tivoli Service Automation Manager is a key tool that allows non-IT users to easily provision new virtual servers from standardized software stacks without IT assistance. IBM Power Systems provide the virtualization, stability, support, and scalability required to support a private cloud environment. When combined with automation and standardization, a private cloud can reduce IT costs through more efficient use of resources and reduced labor.
This document discusses cloud computing and its various service models. It begins by describing how cloud computing represents a fundamental change to IT implementation by allowing services to be deployed, developed, scaled and maintained in a pay-per-use model. It then defines cloud computing and discusses its key characteristics of on-demand self-service, ubiquitous network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and pay-per-use billing. The document goes on to describe the various cloud deployment models and then discusses the main cloud computing services including storage, database, information, process, application, platform, integration and security as services.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its key benefits and challenges. It discusses the basics of cloud computing models like SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Public and private cloud options are described, as well as hybrid cloud. The main benefits of cloud computing are reduced costs, increased storage, and flexibility. However, key challenges include data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance restrictions.
The paper aims to provide a means of understanding the model and exploring options available for complementing your technology and infrastructure needs.
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The document discusses how companies are leveraging cloud computing solutions. It provides examples of how IBM has helped various organizations adopt cloud technologies to improve collaboration, access to resources, and IT efficiencies. Key benefits mentioned include reduced costs, improved flexibility, scalability and security. The document also outlines factors to consider when evaluating cloud solutions and ROI areas to investigate.
Confronting the Data Center Crisis: A Cost - Benefit Analysis of the IBM Computing on Demand (CoD) Cloud Offering
Reducing TCO and Enabling New Capability, Faster Time to Results,
and New Business Models
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THE COST OF AVAILABILITY This document
1. 2009
Applicable Limited
Mark Dixon
Business and Technology
Consultant
THE COST OF AVAILABILITY
This document explores the relative costs of extending an existing messaging environment to
enhanced availability and recoverability using both IBM and Microsoft platforms.
2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Why should I read this document?
Managers are facing increased demands from their users and businesses to enhance the availability
and reliability of their existing messaging infrastructure while also being asked to build business cases
that show best value and an early return on investment.
The need to deploy clustering and disaster recovery solutions is demonstrated by the need for
organisations to: -
• Increase Service Availability
beyond 99.5% which is
typically what can be expected
from a single server.
• Provide longer business day
support in geographically
dispersed scenarios.
• Support the business in the
event of a disaster
Applicable has a long history helping
customers implement and supporting
advanced collaboration solutions using
both IBM and Microsoft technologies.
During this time we have built a good
understanding of the costs involved
deploying these technologies, as well
as day-to-day support for them from a
service desk.
Using our experience and knowledge we have built financial model that reflect some common
scenarios for extending an existing messaging platform for companies that have either Microsoft
Exchange or IBM Lotus Domino installed.
1. The first scenario is that of a singleton mail server.
2. The second scenario builds on this buy including the costs for a second clustered server that
provides a hot failover service.
3. The final scenario builds further to add an a third cluster member located in a remote data
centre that provides a hot failover in the event of a data centre outage.
We then analysed these models over
estates of varying sizes from 500 users up
to 4000 users.
What conclusions did we
reach?
During our research we identified two key
findings.
1. IBM Solutions are up to 52%
cheaper based on Infrastructure
costs and subsequent user support
costs.
2. When licensing costs are
introduced, particularly those of
Microsoft Office – this saving is
more pronounced.
3. THE COST OF MOVING TO ADVANCED COLLABORATION
INTRODUCTION
Availability and disaster recovery are not only
designed to cover extraordinary outages – like
the oft quoted example of a plane landing on
your data centre. They also cover the mundane
problems that occur more frequently, such as
power failure, localised floods, human error or
fire.
Availability and recoverability are issues for
organisations of all sizes and types. There are
few organisations today that can survive without
email and our customer’s often ask us to provide
solutions for business risks introduced by poor
availability or recoverability.
With this report, Applicable sets out to
investigate the total cost of ownership for two
advanced collaboration service providers (IBM
and Microsoft). This is to help the reader to make a comparison between the two vendors based on cost for
similar functionality and scale. The scenarios chosen were designed to aid this comparison by ensuring that
similar function points and user estate types were delivered by the platform designs.
The chart above demonstrates the cost leadership offered by IBM Lotus based solutions for all estate sizes and
types – particularly smaller estates. This chart excludes the cost of Microsoft Office 2007 which is required to get
the full functionality from the Microsoft Exchange 2007 server.
Key Points
The models and analysis in this study allow the following conclusions to be drawn: -
Many organisations are considering how to enhance their Microsoft Exchange 2003 or IBM Lotus Domino 7
environment by looking to the next release from either
manufacturer, often to gain access to new functionality.
IBM Lotus solutions offer a more cost effective service
for those customers that value availability, recoverability
and cost containment for their technology goals.
Email services for organisations of 500-4000 user sizes
are not evenly matched if your look at their respective
costs. Excluding Microsoft Office 2007 licence costs the
IBM solution is up to 26% cheaper at the 500 user level
and 12% cheaper at the 4000 user level (measured in
per user per month costs).
When you include Microsoft Office 2007 (which
provides the client functionality for Microsoft Exchange
Server) – IBM Lotus Domino and Lotus
Notes/Symphony are significantly cheaper – yet provide similar functionality for the majority of users.
Clustering or introducing enhanced recover time or recovery point objectives of an organisation causes Microsoft
solutions to become significantly more expensive, prohibitively so in the case of smaller estates .
IBM Lotus Domino environments for all clustering scenarios scale in a more cost effective way – reflecting the
consolidated nature of its architecture. IBM is up to 54% cheaper for customers of 500 users who want to cluster.
These potential savings hold true for larger organisations – 2000 user estates can achieve savings of 29%.
4. THE COST OF MOVING TO ADVANCED COLLABORATION
TCO ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY
Definition of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Total Cost of Ownership is a financial modelling approach that allows enterprise IT executives to assess the direct
and indirect costs related to an IT system or service. The analysis of two competing technology vendors on the
basis of cost is fraught with problems. Products do not map directly on to each other. Commercial licensing
models do not necessarily lend themselves to direct comparison. Software bundling can lead to significant
distortions in the models and comparisons. This is where a total cost of ownership analysis can help.
Understanding the costs relating to an information technology system is a complex undertaking. Deciding on the
content, approach and assumptions for a TCO model can be daunting at first. Applicable provides managed
services to our customers using both IBM and Microsoft technologies for Unified Collaboration. Over the years we
have developed experience and knowledge in the application lifecycles for most Unified Collaboration
technologies, the related costs and how to manage them effectively.
We have identified the following key attributes to a study of this kind: -
Size – the size of the user estate (or servers) to be supported – this can have a significant impact on the costs
associated with each user – smaller estates are more expensive on a per-user basis.
Term – how long the service will be in operation – can also have an impact on overall costs – the longer the term
– the more return is achieved on capital expenditure – the lower the per user costs.
Cost Categories – how to break down the costs - we have found three provide the most insight: -
1. Platform or physical costs for the platform
2. Licensing or software costs
3. Support – or how much it costs to man the help desk and run the service
Functionality of the service – or what is required by the user estate – the more complex the service and the
more features supported – the more expensive it is on a per user basis.
We have also identified the easiest way to compare systems is to look at these attributes in terms of a “per user
per month” (PUPM) cost. This articulates the cost for each user on the platform – and allows (within the limits of
the model) IT executives to compare costs over differing terms and for different functionality and user estates.
What’s included
For the purposes of this exercise, it is important to structure the costs in such a way that it is possible to support
future comparison. It is also important to compare the costs of the service over a common period of time (or
term).
Sizing Information
We are interested in how costs compare for a range of organisation sizes from 500 users to 4000 users. We have
identified the following user count break points to allow for an appropriate level of modelling: -
• 500 Users
• 1000 Users
• 2000 Users
• 4000 Users
To reduce the complexity of the model, all users are assumed to be information providers (needing a rich client
experience) and average load users. Average load is a term used in the system capacity planning tools within
each vendor’s website.
Scenarios of Service
The following scenarios have been identified.
• Email – the delivery of an email service to the user estate with 500MB Quotas
• Highly Available Email (clustered in a single Data Centre)
5. THE COST OF MOVING TO ADVANCED COLLABORATION
• Highly Available Email (clustered in a Single Data Centre and replicated to a Disaster Recover Site)
The combination of the user estate sizes and scenarios above will result in nine models for each product to
compare how they scale.
Period of Comparison
For this comparison, one term of three years has been used – this being the most common investment cycle for
technologies within this sector. It also coincides with most hardware refresh cycles and the associated service
offerings from hardware vendors.
Categories of Cost
Applicable has found it useful in the past to use three categories of costs to group more detailed direct and
indirect costs under. These are: -
Licence Costs
Licence costs are the costs required to use the software (or other services) needed to deliver the service for the
agreed term. This includes the applications themselves as well as the operating systems they reside on.
It also includes any support tools and applications required to support the service in life - antivirus agents for
example. Also included in licence costs are any applications required to access the service, client software for
example.
For this exercise, the following should be noted: -
• Applicable typically includes all licence costs over the period of the service offering – so it is important to
include any software maintenance (or assurance).
• Applicable has reviewed the impact of client software in terms of Microsoft Office 2007 (which provides
Microsoft Outlook 2007). This software also provides many other office productivity tools and client software for
much of the office enterprise suite. However, the equivalent IBM offering (Lotus Symphony) has been bundled
with IBM’s UC clients offering as well. The impact has been assessed both with Microsoft Office 2007 and with
the alternative of using an older or alternate version.
• Client operating system licences costs have been excluded from both services. However, for the
purposes of arriving at a price from Microsoft’s pricing systems, they have been included as these drive the
operating system pool points. This in turn will drive the eventual Expected Retail Price (ERP) arrived at for other
products. The basis of this service is Microsoft Windows Vista Business edition on the client, and Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 Standard edition on the server.
• Microsoft offer both Subscription and Perpetual licensing models. Perpetual Licensing has been used for
both IBM Lotus and Microsoft products throughout this report. For both vendors, software costs include
appropriate maintenance (or assurance) for a three year term.
Platform Costs
Platform costs are those costs required to support the service. This includes servers, storage and backup
solutions. For this exercise, the following should be noted: -
• Applicable manages service delivery in both hosted and on-premise configurations. It is relatively easy to
arrive at a cost for a hosted environment for hosting costs – but on-premises data centres or server farms vary
greatly. For this exercise these costs have been excluded. This will not affect the comparison as they are
common to both platforms.
• Applicable operates these services offered to our customers using commodity hardware and software. As
noted above – all operating systems are supplied by Microsoft. We also use Intel based server technology to run
the service. Hardware is a commodity these days, so we have created some standard server profiles, with
estimates of costs to provide them. These have been used in both models to allow for fair comparison.
• Applicable supports customers of all sizes and geographic profiles, and these factors have a significant
impact on cost. For the purposes of this exercise a simple single data centre (or dual in the case of the disaster
recovery scenario), and a single user site has been selected to provide a fair reflection of the costs attributable to
vendors.
6. THE COST OF MOVING TO ADVANCED COLLABORATION
Support Costs
Support costs are the costs required to support the users and the platform. Applicable has many years
experience when it comes to providing a managed service to our customers that includes a helpdesk and support
offering. These have been distilled down into a model based on user estate size, and technology complexity – we
call it the “Rate Card”. For the purposes of this exercise, we have used this pricing method to arrive at our view of
what the estate would cost to support from our perspective. This covers user administration and support.
In addition to this we typically attach a charge for the management of each server. This covers server
administration activities such as patching, monitoring, backing up and restoring data as well as security. This is
common for IBM and IBM Lotus technologies.
Another way to look at this problem could look at how many administrators and support staff it would take to
support the number of users, and (allowing for holidays/sickness/shift patterns) work out the costs directly.
Because we administer and support many customers, we can make savings for scale. Our assumption for this is
that both technology stacks take equal amounts of effort to support (the user administration and support costs are
usually the largest element of this anyway) and the more users you have on an estate, the greater the operational
efficiencies.
What’s excluded
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– the exclusions are summarised below: -
• Network costs and remote access costs have not been included – the assumptions above about single
site access with all users located on a single campus mean that network costs will not skew the results in any
particular direction.
• Applicable often uses virtualisation to reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies when delivering
services and both technology platforms can make use of this new environmental architecture. However, the sizing
tools used to arrive at a vendor supported design do not include directly, models for virtualisation. Applicable has
used discrete servers to service the platform.
• Client Workstations – we have excluded the physical workstation and operating system from the cost
model. This is a common requirement to both technology environments. For a formal TCO workshop we would
normally include this – as client age, type can have an impact on support costs. We have included where
appropriate the client software required to access the service. This has particular relevance for Microsoft, which
bundles this cost in the costs for Microsoft Office 2007.
• Implementation, deployment and migration are often significant costs. These are highly dependent on
existing infrastructures and business needs however – and it is very hard to generalise these types of costs so
these have been excluded.
Sources of Design Information
A model is only as good as the sources of information it uses. As a design principle for this study, we have started
with manufacturing information for each product. IBM and Microsoft use similar approaches to providing best
practice guidelines for platform design and configuration for sizing information. Using these tools proved to be the
most transparent means to arrive at equivalent platforms. The tools used were: -
Microsoft’s Systems Centre Capacity Planner
i
Microsoft System Centre Capacity Planner 2007 is a pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment
change analysis solution for Microsoft server products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft System Centre
Operations Manager 2007.
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Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Planning Tool
ii
The Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is a Windows Presentation Foundation
standalone client application. The Planning Tool Wizard asks interview questions about features that the system
administrator is interested in enabling in the Enterprise, as well as information about the Enterprise.
The planning tool uses the information gathered from the administrator to dynamically draw a recommended
topology for every site that the administrator identifies. Additionally, the planning tool calculates the types and
amounts of hardware needed across the entire enterprise, as well as for each site. The planning tool also
provides links to documentation of the specific planning and deployment tasks that the administrator will need in
order to deploy the topology.
TechNet
Microsoft publishes many types of information about the planning and deployment of Exchange platforms within
iii
the TechNet portal. This portal acts as a repository of best practice and covers most scenarios.
IBM Systems Workload Estimator
iv
The IBM Systems Workload Estimator is a web-based sizing tool for IBM Power Systems, System i, System p,
and System x. You can use this tool to size a new system, to size an upgrade to an existing system, or to size a
consolidation of several systems.
The Workload Estimator (WLE) allows measurement input to best reflect your current workload and provides a
variety of built-in workloads to reflect your emerging application requirements. Virtualization can be used to yield a
more robust solution. The Workload Estimator will provide current and growth recommendations for processor,
memory, and disk that satisfy the overall client performance requirements.
IBM Redbooks
IBM has a lot of architectural and deployment information in the deployment guides for Domino. This can help to
size and design a server to support a specific environment. The best source for this information is the relevant
v
Redbook .
Sources of Pricing Information
As a principle for the preparation for this model, we have chosen to use published list prices. These are usually
discounted during the sales cycle so actual costs to customers can vary greatly.
Pricing strategy varies between Microsoft and IBM. This is summarised below: -
IBM Pricing
vi
IBM Pricing is based on a client access license and (in some cases) a server based license. These include the
following attributes of relevance to the functionality required.
There are three primary ways to acquire licenses of software in the Lotus Notes and Domino family:
Client and Server licensing
Acquire a client license for each user, plus server licenses determined by the total processor value units
associated with your server machine(s). Various options are available for both client and server, depending on the
degree of function you need (messaging only or messaging plus collaborative applications).
Per user licensing
Pay a per user charge based on your total number of users. This option is available through a portfolio of
packaged offerings-some designed for small and midsize businesses, and others designed for large enterprises.
With these offerings, you are entitled to deploy as many Lotus Domino servers of a particular type as you want,
and each user is entitled to use any one of a variety of specified client types. Or, leverage extensive IBM
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expertise in messaging and collaboration with a hosted environment that helps provide predicable costs and
assistance with security, availability, and compliance requirements.
Processor value unit licensing (applications only, no messaging)
Acquire server licenses determined by the total processor value units associated with your server machine(s).
Client access licenses are not required for application access by Web browser access, inside or outside your
company. Two offerings are licensed in this fashion-one designed for small and midsize businesses, and one
designed for larger enterprises.
IBM Lotus Notes for Messaging is a IBM Lotus Notes license option with capability limited to messaging, calendar
and scheduling, personal information management (local address book and personal journal), blogging,
discussion databases and reference databases. Degree of function available to the user is controlled by the
administrator through a parameter in the IBM Lotus Domino directory. A license for IBM Lotus Notes 6.5.1
software or higher includes limited use entitlement to instant messaging and presence awareness. IBM Lotus
Notes for Collaboration software is integrated, full-function collaboration client for access to the full range of IBM
Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration function, including team rooms and the capability to use IBM Lotus
Domino applications. These applications may be developed in house using IBM Lotus Domino Designer software
or acquired from an Independent Software Vendor. This license also includes limited use entitlement to instant
messaging and presence awareness.
IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Server combines full support for the latest Internet mail standards with Lotus
Domino's industry-leading messaging, calendar and scheduling, discussion database and reference database
capabilities - all in one manageable and reliable package. Lotus Domino Messaging Server also includes support
for Lotus Domino partitioning (running more than one instance of Lotus Domino on the same machine using one
copy of the Lotus Domino code).
IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise Server provides all the functions of the IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Server, plus
support for custom intranet and Internet applications. The applications may be developed in house using IBM
Lotus Domino Designer or acquired from an Independent Software Vendor. Lotus Domino Enterprise Server
includes support for Lotus Domino clustering, which allows data to be replicated in real time across a cluster of
servers. This capability lets you balance server loads and take advantage of automatic failover when a server is
unavailable.
IBM Lotus Quickr (current version is 8.1) is licensed as a standard user value license or server Extranet PVU
license. It also comes in standard or entry flavours - entry being for personal use only whilst standard is the
license that covers the functionality in scenario three. IBM Lotus Quickr Authorized User License + SW
Subscription & Support 12 Months is the most appropriate for scenario three.
The IBM Lotus CEO Community Collaboration bundle incorporates full team collaboration, real time
communications and social networking solution in one licence bundle. It combines collaborative capabilities and
benefits of IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Quickr.
Part of the IBM Lotus Complete Enterprise Option (CEO) bundle set, the IBM Lotus CEO Community
Collaboration bundle provides optimized pricing for customers interested in making an enterprise-wide
commitment. As with any IBM Lotus CEO bundle, the first purchase must be for the entire enterprise and any
additional follow on sales have minimums of 100 users. The IBM Lotus CEO Community Collaboration bundle is
also appropriate for smaller organizations with minimum purchase quantities of just 100 users (still requires entire
enterprise for initial purchase).
The prices used in the model are shown below: -
IBM Products Cost
IBM LOTUS QUICKR AUTHORIZED USER
LICENSE + SW SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT
12MONTHS £47.94
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IBM LOTUS QUICKR AUTHORIZED USER
ANNUAL SW SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT
RENEWAL £9.59
IBM LOTUS SAMETIME STANDARD AUTHORIZED
USER LICENSE + SW SUBSCRIPTION &
SUPPORT 12 MONTHS £45.66
IBM LOTUS SAMETIME STANDARD AUTHORIZED
USER ANNUAL SW SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT
RENEWAL 12 MONTHS £9.13
IBM LOTUS SAMETIME ADVANCED AUTHORIZED
USER LICENSE + SW SUBSCRIPTION &
SUPPORT 12 MONTHS £65.22
IBM LOTUS SAMETIME ADVANCED AUTHORIZED
USER SW SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT RENEWAL £13.04
IBM LOTUS DOMINO MESSAGING SERVER
PROCESSOR VALUE UNIT (PVU) LICENSE + SW
SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT 12 MONTHS £10.11
IBM LOTUS DOMINO MESSAGING SERVER
PROCESSOR VALUE UNIT (PVU) ANNUAL SW
SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT RENEWAL £2.64
IBM LOTUS NOTES WITH MESSAGING
AUTHORIZED USER LICENSE + SW
SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT 12 MONTHS £73.04
IBM LOTUS NOTES WITH MESSAGING
AUTHORIZED USER ANNUAL SW SUBSCRIPTION
& SUPPORT RENEWAL £18.92
IBM LOTUS NOTES WITH COLLABORATION
AUTHORIZED USER LICENSE + SW
SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT 12 MONTHS £101.00
IBM LOTUS NOTES WITH COLLABORATION
AUTHORIZED USER ANNUAL SW SUBSCRIPTION
& SUPPORT RENEWAL £26.25
IBM LOTUS COMMUNITY COLLABORATION CEO
USER LICENSE + SW SUBSCRIPTION &
SUPPORT 12 MONTHS £147.00
IBM LOTUS COMMUNITY COLLABORATION CEO
USER ANNUAL SW SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT
RENEWAL £29.35
Microsoft pricing
vii
Microsoft pricing is based on a client access license and a server based license as well. Microsoft provide a
“Microsoft Licensing Advisor” tool that is an easy-to-use online advisor that can help you find and select Microsoft
products, find the right Volume Licensing program, and determine estimated retail pricing (ERP) based on your
software needs. This tool identified that all three of the user estate sizes fell into the SELECT program (BAND A)
for volume perpetual licensing. As this exercise is designed at reaching an optimum cost for the term of three
years and has the value of the licenses at the end – like the IBM model – perpetual pricing was chosen in
preference to subscription licensing.
Microsoft is cumulative. For example, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 CAL requires the Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 CAL to provide “Directory Services”. This is also true when you add in further functionality like
Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007. For this reason,
Microsoft often bundle these client access licenses. This is discussed below: -
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IBM also provide similar “Complete Enterprise Offering” bundles – which are similar to Microsoft’s client access
license bundles. These are summarised below: -
Microsoft Core Client Access License Suite
The Microsoft Core Client Access License (CAL) Suite gives customers a simple, cost-effective way to purchase
key Microsoft technologies through a single license agreement. The Microsoft Core CAL Suite covers four
fundamental Microsoft server products that provide users with identity management, directory services, enterprise
communication (e-mail, calendar functions, and scheduling), collaborative workspaces, and asset management.
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 CAL
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Standard CAL
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL
• Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Management License
The Microsoft Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) Suite allows customers to buy eleven Microsoft products to
provide users people with products that allow compliance, real-time collaboration, security, communication,
desktop management, and more.
The Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite provides a significant cost savings compared to the purchasing of individual
CALs. Customers considering investments in just two of the products included in the suite will find Microsoft
Enterprise CAL Suite becomes saves them money.
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 CAL
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Standard CAL
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Standard CAL
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
• Microsoft Systems Centre Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Management License
• Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2007 Client Monitoring
• Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services
• Microsoft Forefront Security Suite
Microsoft Products Cost
Microsoft Office Single License/Software
Assurance Pack Microsoft Volume
License (021-05339) £492.00
Microsoft Core CAL (Client Access
License) Single License/Software
Assurance Pack Microsoft Volume
License User CAL (W06-00426) £231.00
Microsoft Enterprise CAL Single
License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License User CAL User
CAL w/ Services (76A-00182) £450.00
Microsoft Exchange Enterprise CAL w
Svc Single License/Software Assurance
Pack Microsoft Volume License User CAL
User CAL (9MB-00896) £72.00
Microsoft Exchange Server Enterprise
Single License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License £5,007.00
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Microsoft Exchange Server Standard
Single License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License £816.00
Microsoft Exchange Standard CAL Single
License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License User CAL User
CAL (394-00529) £84.00
Microsoft Forefront Client Security Single
Monthly Subscriptions-Volume License
Microsoft Volume License Per User (UFB-
00054) £0.60
Microsoft Forefront Sec Exchange Svr
Single Monthly Subscriptions-Volume
License Microsoft Volume License Per
User (9SG-00054) £0.70
Microsoft Forefront Sec Off Comm Svr
Sngl Monthly Subscriptions-Volume
License Microsoft Volume License Per
User (HTC-00087) £0.34
Microsoft Forefront Sec SharePoint
Single Monthly Subscriptions-Volume
License Microsoft Volume License Per
User (9SH-00054) £0.34
Microsoft Office Comm Server Ent CAL
Single License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License User CAL User
CAL (KMA-00672) £162.00
Microsoft Office Comm Server Ent Single
License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License (KPA-00241) £4,662.00
Microsoft Office Comm Server Std CAL
Single License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License User CAL User £36.00
Microsoft Office Comm Server Std Single
License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License (KNA-00241) £816.00
Microsoft Office SharePoint CAL Single
License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License User CAL User
CAL (H05-00445) £111.00
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Single
License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License (H04-00231) £5,154.00
Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise CAL
Single License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License User CAL User
CAL (76N-02439) £90.00
Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition
Single License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License (228-04538) £6,600.00
Microsoft Windows Server Std w/o
Hyper-V Sngl License/Software
Assurance Pack Microsoft Volume
License (LTA-00197) £837.00
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Microsoft Windows Server CAL Single
License/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License User CAL £36.00
Microsoft Windows Vista Business Single
Upgrade/Software Assurance Pack
Microsoft Volume License w/Vis
Enterprise (66J-00868) £252.00
Hardware pricing
As noted above – hardware is a commodity – so rather than base designs on a specific item and price we have
chosen a generic size for servers and storage. We then requested the prices from several manufacturers and
developed at an approximation for acquisition and support costs. The model has very low sensitivity to actual
hardware costs as we shall see in the detailed analysis below.
The following has been established as the servers required by the various designs: -
Hardware Products Cost
Small Application Server
2 Core, 2 GB (Storage Separate) £2,500.00
Small Application Server
Maintenance Costs £300.00
Medium Application Server
4 Core, 4 GB (Storage Separate) £3,500.00
Medium Application Server
Maintenance Costs £400.00
Large Application Server
8 Core, 8 GB (Storage Separate) £5,000.00
Large Application Server
Maintenance Costs £600.00
Enterprise Application Server
16 Core, 16 GB (Storage Separate) £6,000.00
Enterprise Application Server
Maintenance Costs £650.00
300 GB SAS 15K Disk
Acquisition Costs £450.00
300 GB SAS 15K Disk
Maintenance £40.00
146 GB SAS 15K Disk
Acquisition Costs £240.00
146 GB SAS 15K Disk
Maintenance £30.00
TS3400 Storage Expansion
Acquisition Costs £6,500.00
TS3400 Storage Expansion
Support Costs £400.00
TS3100 Tape Library
Acquisition Costs £6,500.00
TS3100 Tape Library
Support Costs £400.00
Tape Set (Single Set)
Acquisition Costs £300.00
TS3100 Tape Media
Acquisition Costs £900.00
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Storage Costs
In addition to this, storage costs need to be accounted for. The servers above have been priced to include two
146GB RAID 1 mirrors using 146GB 15K SAS drives for OS and Logging. Each storage design has been based
on 15K SAS disks. Backup solutions have also been included for completeness.
See the hardware storage costs above.
Other Costs
Finally there are the other costs. These are shown in the table below: -
Other Products / Support Cost
MacAfee Client Anti Virus License
Perpetual License + 3 years
Subscription £34.00
Server Annual Support Costs £6,000.00
Backup Agent for Domino Agents
Including 3 yrs maintenance £540.00
Backup Agent for Windows Server
Including 3 yrs maintenance £320.00
Backup Agent for SQL Server
Including 3 yrs maintenance £1,500.00
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HIGH LEVEL DESIGNS
The following diagrams and notes illustrate the modelled environments and our design goals for each platform.
IBM Lotus Domino
Simple Mail Architecture
IBM Lotus Domino Messaging architecture is relatively straight forward for smaller organisations. The core
messaging server, if properly planned and implemented can scale to in excess of 10,000 users. Messaging
servers tend to rely, to a large extent, on their disk subsystem design and throughput.
This design scales easily between 500 and 4000
users according to the sizing tools. Additional
storage was catered for by including an external
storage array for the larger estates.
This design requires the IBM Lotus Domino
Messaging process value unit licence and IBM
Lotus Messaging client access licensing for user
licensing.
There are a variety of Antivirus and Anti-Spam
solutions for the IBM Lotus Domino environment.
Most of them are priced based on the number of
seats. Choosing one – MacAfee – as a market
leading product it is possible to arrive at a price
per user per month (RRP) of £35 per user the
perpetual licence with three years with maintenance included. These prices reduce with the size of the platform –
but a common price will be assumed.
Other applications are accessible using the standard IBM Lotus Domino Messaging server licence. Document
Libraries, Team Places and Discussion databases come as standard with this server licence.
This platform can also run bespoke IBM Lotus Notes Applications using the Utility (or Enterprise) licence which
can be used to support line of business applications. The extensible nature of this platform has made it very
popular as a web server as well.
Customers are not restricted to the IBM Lotus Notes client; it is possible to step down to the IBM Domino Web
Access (or iNotes) client which is accessed using a web browser. This licence costs less than the full IBM Lotus
Notes client access license
IBM Lotus Notes Traveller (which will soon support iPhone) allows push email support to be extended to a range
of mobile devices in much the same way as RIM’s Blackberry.
IBM Lotus Domino directory services can run isolated from the organisations Active Directory (if one exists) and
be published via LDAP. This also means that the directory is optimised for Mail routing and security.
IBM publishes a hardened configuration that allows most Domino implementations to sit in the DMZ or for them to
be accessible directly from the Internet (via reverse proxies) to route email.
IBM Lotus Domino Mail - Clustered Mail Architecture
IBM Lotus Domino clustering technology is relatively straight forward – building as it does on its unique replication
service.
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A minimum of two and maximum of six servers can form a cluster. IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise PVU licensing is
required to enable clustering.
The amount of disk space needs to be doubled for each
user. This allows a full replica of a users email to be
made on the cluster mate.
IBM Lotus Domino servers will dynamically spread the
user load across cluster members. This happens
automatically when the cluster is created – the IBM Lotus
Notes client registers that fact that the users home mail
server is clustered and stores the cluster mate in its
desktop configuration.
IBM Lotus Domino replication (both clustered and
scheduled) can occur across low latency and low
bandwidth links – but for the best results it is best to plan
wide area network capacity to meet the demands placed
on it. For example, if you wish to failover to a cluster
mate – the user’s perception of the service will be set by the response time in a failover situation. The
implementation of wide area network optimisation technologies – like Riverbed – can dramatically improve
performance and response times whilst reducing/containing your network costs.
At Applicable, we often implement clustered designs to allow administrators the freedom to perform programmed
or corrective action during normal business hours. This allows clustered environments to present at least four
nines availability and be comfortable that it is realistic and achievable.
Another key benefit of this clustering technology is the ability to have expensive servers deliver email services to
your users – then fail-over to inexpensive servers (for service windows for example). IBM Lotus Domino servers
perform this by allowing clusters to be made up of mail servers on different operating system – which IBM Lotus
Domino supports. This extends to multiple partitions too – for larger estates it is possible to create cluster mates
that are actually virtualised or IBM Lotus Domino partitioned servers – allowing you to reduce your availability
infrastructure footprint further still.
Clustered Mail Architecture with a remote Disaster Recovery site
A common infrastructure we implement and recommend extends the basic IBM Lotus Domino clustering is to a
remote location. This depends on relatively good network links between the users and the two server locations
and also between the locations. IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise PVU licensing is required. The amount of disk
space needs to be doubled for each user.
A disaster recovery planning often referred to synonymously as a business continuity planning (BCP) — is a
comprehensive set of measures and procedures put into place within an organization to ensure that essential,
mission critical resources and infrastructures are maintained or backed up by alternatives during various stages of
a disaster.
Typically, planning for disasters and how to recover must
address three areas:
Prevention (pre-disaster): The pre-planning required —
using clustered servers for critical systems, maintaining
hot sites, training disaster recovery personnel — to
minimize the overall impact of a disaster on systems and
resources. This pre-planning also maximizes the ability
of an organization to recover from a disaster.
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Continuity (during a disaster): The process of maintaining core, mission-critical systems and resource
"skeletons" (the bare minimum assets required to keep an organization in operational status) and/or initiating
secondary recovery sites during a disaster. Continuity measures prevent the whole organisation from failing to
support essential business processes, systems and resources.
Recovery (post-disaster): The steps required for the restoration of all systems and resources to full, normal
operational status. This is often the hardest part of managing the disaster – what happens to the email you sent
or received during the disaster – how do you re-integrate this into your production environment.
Fortunately, IBM Lotus Domino Replication can automatically re-synchronise your information when your primary
site becomes operational. IBM Lotus Domino clusters will dynamically spread the user load across the three
servers – however, it’s helpful to keep the DR site isolated from users during normal operation.
This solution provides an enhanced recovery time objective (RTO) of minutes (the time taken to recover the
service). Recover Point Objectives remain defined by the tape backup/restore cycle which is usually every 24
hours.
Microsoft Exchange Architectures
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Microsoft TechNet offers four types of architecture for Microsoft Exchange 2007 deployments.
Simple – for smaller organisations of 25 to 1000 – where most of the Microsoft Exchange 2007 server roles sit on
a single physical server. Microsoft Exchange 20007 Edge services have to be deployed separately. Most designs
of this category will include at least three servers – one that provides the Microsoft Global Address List service,
one combined Microsoft Exchange 2007 Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport servers (usually sitting on a
Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory Domain Controller) and the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Edge
server role mentioned above.
Standard which is for larger user estates in a single Microsoft Exchange 2007 organisation – the point where
scaling out to multiple servers becomes necessary is not clearly stated on TechNet – but the sizing tools all return
the design shown below for 500 users and above.
Large this is for distributed user estates with multiple service delivery and client locations.
Complex this is for multiple directories and/or environments that have synchronised directories.
For the purposes of this comparison, the designs will fall into the first two. The first scenario covering 500 users
will be a simple design with an Microsoft Exchange 2007 server with Microsoft Exchange 2007 Mailbox, Client
Access and Hub Transport server roles along with the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Edge server and a
Microsoft Windows Server Domain Controller providing the Global Address List.
Design for 500 Users
A simple Microsoft Exchange 2007 organisation with multiple servers can also consist of a Microsoft infrastructure
solution known as Centro. Centro is the code name for a new infrastructure solution designed for mid-sized
businesses that have between 25 and 250 personal computers. Centro is built on top of the technologies in
Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
During the planning phase of your deployment, and before you deploy any Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers in a
simple Microsoft Exchange organization, Microsoft ask that you consider the following points:
1. Microsoft recommends that you deploy the single-server simple Microsoft Exchange organization only
when using Windows Small Business Server. (up to 250 users)
2. Microsoft also recommends that you deploy the multiple-server simple Microsoft Exchange organization
only when using Centro.
The design we have arrived at for 500 users is shown below: -
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Moving to a larger user base – it is necessary to move
away from the Simple/Centro approach and use the
standard design with multiple physical servers supporting
the various Microsoft Exchange roles.
Standard designs are highly dependent on Microsoft’s
Active Directory design and location. The design below
has not included a dedicated Domain Controller and it is
not recommended by Microsoft that any of the Microsoft
Exchange server roles share a physical server with the
Domain Controller role.
The design above scaled easily between 1,000 and
4,000 users according to the sizing tools. Additional
storage had to be catered for by including an external
storage array for the larger estate.
The Microsoft Exchange 2007 Mailbox and Client Access server roles also had to be augmented with extra
processor and memory for 1,000, 2,000 and 4,000 users respectively.
CUSTOMER NETWORK
Microsoft Exchange 2007
Small Environment in a single data centre hosted on
customer site.
Initial Design Capacity: from 1000-4000 Users
Clustered Microsoft Exchange 2007 Designs
Total Storage: 500 MB Quotas Available Designed from 500 users
Outlook Cached Mode
Source: System Centre Capacity Planner 2007
Based on “Average Users” - per System Centre Capacity Planner
100% Concurrency Rate / from 500 Active Connections There are two methodologies to cluster Microsoft
Exchange 2007 server environments. In a production
GIGABIT ETHERNET
environment, only Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise
CUSTOMER DATA CENTER
Edition is supported in a Microsoft Windows failover
cluster; Microsoft Exchange 2007 Standard Edition is not
supported in a Windows failover cluster in production.
Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange
Hub Transport Edge Mailbox Client Access
The two mechanisms are Standby Continuous
Replication and Cluster continuous replication.
Exchange (Hub Transport)
2 x Core + 2 GB
Volume 1 (Data Files) – RAID 1 – 2 x
146GB SAS 15K (146GB)
Volume 2 (Log Files) – RAID 1 – 2 x
146GB SAS 15K (146GB)
Exchange (Edge)
Exchange (Client Access)
2 x Core + 2 GB
Volume 1 (Data Files) – RAID 1
Cluster continuous replication has the closest
2 x Core + 2 GB
Volume 1 (Data Files) – RAID 1 – 2 x
146GB SAS 15K (146GB)
Volume 2 (Log Files) – RAID 1 – 2 x
146GB SAS 15K (146GB)
– 2 x 146GB SAS 15K (146GB)
functionality to IBM Lotus Domino clustering with the
exception that it is not an Active-Active cluster
Exchange (Mailbox Role)
2 x Core + 2 GB
Volume 0 (System) – RAID 1 – 2 x
146GB SAS 10K (146
Volume 1 (Data Files) – RAID 10 – 4 x
300GB SAS 15K (600GB)
Volume 2 (Log Files) – RAID 1 – 2 x
146GB SAS 15K (146GB)
technology. It does support multiple passive nodes
Exchange
Server
Organisation however which in turn can support the disaster recovery
scenario.
Cluster continuous replication is a high availability
feature of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that
combines the asynchronous log shipping and replay
technology built into Microsoft Exchange 2007 with the
failover and management features provided by
Microsoft’s Cluster service.
Cluster continuous replication is designed to provide high
availability for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Mailbox servers
by providing a solution that:
• Has no single point of failure
• Has no special hardware requirements
• Has no shared storage requirements
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• Can be deployed in one or two data centre configurations
• Can reduce full backup frequency, reduce total backed up data volume, and shorten the service level
agreement for recovery time from first failure.
Cluster continuous replication environments are only supported when deployed with Microsoft Exchange 2007
Enterprise Edition server and client licensing. When you deploy Microsoft Exchange 2007 in a failover cluster, an
Enterprise Edition licence is required for each node on which Exchange 2007 is installed. Microsoft
Exchange 2007 also comes in two client access licence editions, which are also called Standard Edition and
Enterprise Edition.
You can mix and match the server editions with the CAL editions. For example, you can use Microsoft Exchange
2007 Enterprise Edition client access licenses against Microsoft Exchange 2007 Standard Edition. Similarly, you
can use Microsoft Exchange 2007 Standard Edition client access licenses against Microsoft Exchange 2007
Server Enterprise Edition. The Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise Edition client access license is an additive
license, which means that you buy the Microsoft Exchange 2007 Standard Edition client access license, and then
add a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise Edition client access license on top of it. The key client access license
differences which affect clustering are highlighted below: -
Standby continuous replication requires a physical failover –
this means that whilst suitable for a disaster recover situation,
where you have time to cut users over it does not fulfil the
requirements of “high availability”. Highly available systems
require a dynamic approach which is only supported by the
virtualised service offered by cluster continuous replication. This
requires an Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise client access
license and a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise Server
licence. Standby continuous replication also requires shared
storage – which becomes a single point of failure and also rules
out remote data centre designs.
This demonstrates the need for the Microsoft Exchange 2007
Hub Transport Server role to host the “Witness File Share”. This
is part of the quorum model that prevents “split-brain” syndrome by ensuring that the third member confirms the
heartbeat status of the two members of the cluster. The Microsoft System Centre Capacity Planner model
generated for cluster continuous replication is shown below – with the associated box count design: -
The design above contains two boxes for each node role. Using cluster continuous replication, it is necessary to
split out the Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server Hub role from the others. The Microsoft Exchange 2007 Edge
server role already needs to be split out. This means that the minimum box design for this functionality is: -
• Microsoft Exchange 2007 Mailbox role + Microsoft Exchange 2007 Client Access role (x2)
• Microsoft Exchange 2007 Hub Transport role (x2)
• Microsoft Exchange 2007 Edge server role (x2)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers (x2)
Each of these servers can be scaled up to support 1,000, 2,000 or 4,000 user
Stretched Clustered Exchange Designs
Microsoft use the term “stretched” clusters to encompass clusters that extend to multiple data centres. This is
facilitated by repeating the hardware necessary to support normal operations to a second data centre and
enabling cluster continuous replication for this environment. A box count design (derived from Microsoft System
Centre Planner) is shown below.
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This solution could also support the recovery point
objective and recover time objective targets met by the
IBM Lotus Domino design.
The key differences between the platforms are
highlighted below: -
It would not provide the same level of load balancing.
However the service virtualisation facilitates seamless
failover in the event of an agreed outage.
Log Shipping happens when logs are closed – which is
usually every few minutes – this means that there is a
window when data may be lost. IBM Lotus Domino
servers replicate continuously minimising data loss.
Log shipping happens in clear text – and may be intercepted – a separate encryption solution should be put in
place (or a private network link put in place) to prevent information leakage.
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DETAILED FINDINGS
Using the input above it is possible to create a financial model that we can summarise in the following three
sections: -
Microsoft Total Cost of Ownership
The first is a table of costs for the four user estates for the three scenarios: -
Two things are clear from this chart: -
• User estate size is inversely proportional to the
cost per person. You get more value when more users
that are hosted on the same estate.
• The cost per user goes up in a linear fashion
from singleton to more complex clustered technologies.
This is trend is reinforced for final scenario because
users have to deploy the Microsoft Exchange
Enterprise client access license which adds
significantly to the costs for the clustered design.
Microsoft Office 2007 Cost Impact
When including the licence for the Client Software
(Microsoft Office 2007 Professional – with Microsoft
Office Outlook 2007) in this case the following table is
generated:- -
This adds approximately £ 13.67 per user per month to
the costs for the three your term.
It could be argued that the user would have Microsoft
Office installed anyway. This is not necessarily the case
however, alternative office product suites are available,
one of which Symphony is included in the IBM pricing
below. Previous versions of Microsoft Office, though
possibly not covered by Software Assurance may also
be installed – it is possible to access the Microsoft
Exchange 2007 service from Microsoft Outlook 2003
with reduced functionality for example. Microsoft argues that Microsoft Office 2007 is the client software to the
Microsoft Office Enterprise suite of server applications that include: -
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
• Microsoft Office Performance Point Server
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Dynamics Server which includes Dynamics CRM, Navision and others
However, unless you are using these middleware applications as line of business tools, the full value of Office is
not realised.
IBM Total Cost of Analysis
The table below shows the costs for a similar function point estate when delivered using IBM Technology: -
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This includes the entire client costs required to access the estate (as well as the IBM Lotus Symphony Office
Productivity suite).
It is clear from this table that the platform costs are
significantly less than the equivelant Microsoft platform –
reflecting the reduced box count required as well as the
reduced license costs.
The support costs also have a large fixed component to
reflect support for the server estate – this is much lower
than the equivalent Microsoft estate.
Comparative Analysis
These tables show the comparative cost savings
between the IBM messaging solution and the
comparative Microsoft Solutions excluding Microsoft
Office prices: -
Singleton Mail – Cost Comparison
The table above lays out the costs per user per month
for each of the designs. It also splits the costs in the
segments of Licence, Platform and Support.
This table is represented in the chart below:-
This clearly illustrates the potential cost differences
between IBM solutions and Microsoft solutions.
It also shows quite clearly that whilst some of the
difference can be accounted for in licences, the larger
hardware platforms required to support the Microsoft
estate least to large support costs, especially for smaller
customers.
The costs for the platform acquisition in terms of price
per user, remain steady through all the scenarios of
customer estates sizes – hardware is a small cost in
proportion to the other larger categories. However, the
support costs are made of two subcategories – user
support and administration and server support and administration. The relatively large number of physical servers
in proportion to the estate size means that the Microsoft designs incur significantly more costs here. The effect of
this wears off with more users on the platform – as this cost becomes less per user.
Licence costs are also generally higher for Microsoft than IBM customers. Typically between 50 pence and 70
pence a user cheaper for IBM estates. This seems to follow the user estate size fairly closely – these charges are
based on seat counts not one off charges – although there is a server charge element.
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional includes Microsoft
Outlook 2007. The list price of £492.00 broken down
over the three year investment period works out at
£13.67 per user per month. Including this £13.57 per
user per month charge for Microsoft Office 2007 more
than doubles the per user cost for small estates. This is
shown in the table above. Note, it is possible to access
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some of the features within Microsoft Exchange 2007 using previous versions of Microsoft Office.
Many of our customers seek to invest in their email infrastructure to deliver a robust, reliable and cost effective
service. The evidence from this comparison based on the email provision delivered by the designs above – which
has identical service characteristics – is clear. IBM Lotus Domino solutions are clearly cheaper for this part of the
market. The relative savings are shown below: -
When we look at the trends for these savings, we see another interesting trend. As the estate grows larger, the
individual components the represent the largest elements within the cost base reduce as a proportion. Both
estates are trending to a base cost which is dominated by CAL licensing.
This chart re-inforces the savings accrued through IBM platform implementations, but also emphasises that this is
particularly so for small customers. This chart excludes Microsoft Office. If we were to include Microsoft Office
these savings range from 65 to 69%.
Clustered Mail – Cost Comparison
Both IBM and Microsoft include an additional licence
charge for delivering a clustered solution. In the case of
IBM – this is a server only charge – you need to deploy
the IBM Lotus Enterprise Server. Microsoft have both a
client and server based charge for enterprise license implementations. These are needed to deploy clustered
platforms. This Microsoft Exchange Enterprise client access license is reflected in sharply higher per user
charges for licensing over the IBM equivelant. This is shown in the chart below: -
The other aspect of clustering that makes IBM Lotus
Domino cheaper is its relative simplicity. The minimum
number of servers required for a cluster is two (the
maximum supported is six). This means that as you add
servers to the cluster you double the hardware
acquisition and support costs.
Microsoft also doubles up but to form a quorum for CCR
you need three servers as a minimum and you generally
start from a larger estate. This is reflected in the chart
below showing the larger fixed support costs for smaller
user estates vs. smaller support costs for IBM and larger
Microsoft estates. The Microsoft model for clustering
does not scale to smaller sites particularly efficiently.
Clustered Mail – Savings Analysis
The statement above is borne out by the relative savings incurred by IBM platforms over Microsoft platforms
shown in the table below: -
IBM is between 49% cheaper for small sites and 16%
cheaper for larger sites.
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These chart also highlights the relative penalty that smaller customers pay for deploying a clustered Microsoft
solution. This reflects the relatively high fixed costs per user.
Cluster and Disaster Recovery – Cost Comparison
Moving to an enhanced recoverability design – a disaster recovery site with at least passive clustering incurs a lot
of cost for the Microsoft solution. This is shown in the table below: -
These costs do not include Microsoft Office 2007 - much
of the conclusions for the clustered solution can be
repeated here for the same reasons – they are
exagerated by the increasing platform size needed to
support the same functionality within offered by IBM with three servers.
The implication of these costs is that it is begining to
become prohibitive for smaller sites to implement this
level of business continuity planning.
Cluster and DR – Savings Analysis
And again – the straight savings (without Microsoft Office
licence costs) can be drawn out as below: -
This can be drawn out in the chart below – reflecting between 20 and 48% savings.
If we were to include Microsoft Office 2007 costs these savings become substantial: -
Overall Comparison
Another way to look at these costs is to project the increasing functionality on the x-axis against cost on the y-axis
– the reader can get a view about the relative costs for a specific function point compare – and how these costs
scale for user estate size. The table below illustates these (without Microsoft Office): -
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The following chart displays this graphically. It is clear to
see two things from this chart: -
1. Microsoft is more expensive in terms of costs per user
by some margin for all estate volumes. It is roughly the
same cost per user to deploy 1,000 IBM Lotus Domino
users as it is to deploy 4,000 Microsoft Exchange 2007
users. This is an indication of the cost scalability of the
two solutions.
2. Microsoft becomes more expensive relatively to IBM
Lotus the more availability and recoverability you build
into the platform at a higher rate than IBM’s solution. If
you include Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suite in the
equation the results are stark.
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level of skills and experience to your projects, and to the quality of service delivery.
Extensive references for the delivery of Microsoft platforms enable our accreditation as a Microsoft Gold Partner.
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ii
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08/05/2009]
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IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Deployment Guide - http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247506.html
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