Streamlining and automating data center operations can help organizations experience increased resource utilization, greater infrastructure availability, and sharply reduced capital expenditures. Traditionally, relying on manual efforts and point solutions to manage operations can lead to issues like lack of visibility, idle resources from over-provisioning, unanticipated capacity shortfalls, and unpredictable bottlenecks. VMware customers achieved improvements like a 25% increase in operational visibility, 2.7x increase in infrastructure utilization, 25% average productivity gains, and a 40% reduction in problem detection and resolution time through streamlining and automating their data center operations.

1. The Path to Streamlining
and Automating
Data Center Operations
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2. By streamlining and automating data center operations,
organisations can experience:
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Get the Most Out of Your Data Center
The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organisations
about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine
effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.
Increased
Resource Utilisation
Greater
Infrastructure Availability
Sharply Reduced
CAPEX Costs

3. Move Beyond Reactive IT Operations
Relying on traditional tools, point solutions and manual effort
to manage data center operations often results in:
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Lack of early visibility
into system health issues
can cause unplanned outages
Idle resources
due to over-provisioning
waste capacity
Unanticipated capacity
shortfalls
increase storage CAPEX costs
Unpredictable bottlenecks
compromise the performance
of critical applications
Manually intensive
operational processes
reduce IT productivity

4. Achieve Greater Efficiency in Your Operations
Streamlining and automating data operations
helped VMware customers achieve:
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Improvement in
operational visibility25%
Increase in
infrastructure utilisation2.7x
Average productivity
gains generated25%
Savings in
operating costs56%
Reduction in
problem detection
and resolution time
40%

5. Phase 3Phase 2
The Path to Streamlined and Automated
Data Center Operations
VMware customers found this roadmap most effective
when enabling key capabilities:
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Phase 1
Infrastructure
health monitoring
Capacity
optimisation
Infrastructure
performance management
Third party
tools integration
Unified physical/virtual
management
Customized
dashboards
Policy-based compliance
management
Predictive analytics
Application
health monitoring
Application-level
quality of service

6. Generate Real Results
Implementing streamlined and automated data center operations
resulted in:
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Significantly improved
operational visibility
and control
Increased infrastructure
utilisation
& less waste due to
overprovisioning
Dramatic boost
in IT productivity
Improved compliance
with industry regulations
and internal IT policies

7. VMware Solutions for Your
Virtualised Data Center
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Infrastructure Health
Monitoring
vSphere with Operations Management
vRealize Operations Insight
vRealize Operations Enterprise
Performance, Capacity
& Quality-of-Service
vSphere with Operations Management
vRealize Operations Insight
vCloud Suite Enterprise
Unified Physical/Virtual
& 3rd Party Integration
vRealize Operations Insight
Configuration
& Compliance
vRealize Operations
vRealize Automation
Professional Services
VMware can help you determine
an automation solution for your
business needs

8. VMware Suites Provide the
Tools You Need to Get Started
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For vSphere environments, we recommend
vCloud Suite, which includes:
• vSphere
• vCenter Site
Recovery Manager
• vRealize Operations
• vRealize Automation
• vRealize Business
For public and hybrid cloud environments,
we recommend vRealize Suite, which includes:
• vRealize Log Insight
• vRealize Operations
• vRealize Automation
• vRealize Business

9. Learn More
To find out how VMware can provide
your organisation with added visibility
and reduced costs:
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