The document discusses VCE Vblock systems, which are converged infrastructure solutions for data centers. It notes that maintaining current IT operations accounts for 70% of IT budgets on average. VCE Vblock systems aim to address challenges in IT by providing an integrated platform that can be deployed and managed as a single system, with benefits including five times faster deployment, four times less staff resources needed, and 83 times lower costs compared to traditional infrastructure. The solutions provide tools for converged management and operations across compute, storage, networking and virtualization.

1. VCE VBLOCK
SYSTEMS
The Leading Converged Infrastructure
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2. VCE: A FOUNDATION FOR
IT TRANSFORMATION
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3. TODAY’S IT
COMPUTE
STORAGE
STORAGE
COMPUTE
NETWORK
NETWORK
VIRTUALIZATION
VIRTUALIZATION
APPLICATION
SUPPORT TEAMS
70%
20%
10%
Maintaining
Operations Cost
New Software
Investments
New Hardware
Investments
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4. TODAY’S IT
DESIGN & DEPLOY
MAINTAIN
EXPANSION &
UPGRADE
V2
Code Matrix Monitoring
Plan & Design
Build & Test
Patch & Validate
Stabilize & Optimize
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Plan & Design
Build & Test
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5. ADDRESSING TODAY’S IT CHALLENGES
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Only New Thinking Can Transform IT
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6. VBLOCK SYSTEMS: THE FASTEST PATH TO THE CLOUD
Single Product
Single Point Of Support
Managed As Single Product
Integrated Data Protection
Options
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7. VCE VBLOCK SYSTEMS – THE ONLY TRUE
CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
Application
Optimization
Lifecycle System
Assurance
API Enabled,
Converged
Management
Integrated Protection
and Workload
Mobility Solutions
Pre-engineered,
Pre-validated,
Pre-tested
Best-of-breed
Technology
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Customer Experience
Fastest Time-to-Business
Highest Performance
Highest Availability
Converged Management
Lowest Risk
Lowest TCO
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8. VCE CUSTOMER RESULTS
COMPUTE
STORAGE
5X
FASTER
DEPLOYMENT
4X
NETWORK
LESS STAFF
RESOURCE TIME
VIRTUALIZATION
BETTER
AVAILABILITY
83X
LOWER
COST
3X
CONVERGED OPERATIONS
Source: May 2012 report by IDC entitled "Converging the Datacenter Infrastructure: Why, How, So What"
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9. GARTNER NAMES VCE THE CLEAR LEADER IN
INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
Integrated Systems
Market
Integrated Infrastructure Systems
Market Share
Integrated
Integrated
Workload
Systems
Infrastructure
Systems
38%
35%
27%
Server, shared-storage,
and network hardware
integrated to provide shared
compute infrastructure
HP
24%
VCE
57%
Hitachi
15%
Dell
2%
Integrated
Reference
Architectures
Source: Gartner – Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware Integrated Systems, 1Q11-2Q12, 30 Nov 2012
G00239623; 6 quarters Integrated Systems spend within the most recent 4 quarters was $3.6B
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Other
1%
IBM
1%
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10. THE INDUSTRY’S BROADEST PORTFOLIO
DRIVING IT SIMPLICITY AND EFFICIENCY
SYSTEM SYSTEM
100
200
SYSTEM
320
SYSTEM
720
SPECIALIZED
SYSTEMS
VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations software
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11. VBLOCK™ SPECIALIZED SYSTEM
FOR SAP HANA®
Vblock Specialized System
for SAP HANA®
Certified System
FULLY FACTORY-LOADED, TESTED, AND CONFIGURED
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12. VBLOCK SYSTEMS DATA PROTECTION
Industry Leading Data Protection
Based On Data Domain & Avamar
Fast, Repeatable, Low Risk
Deployments
Consistently Implemented Across
Entire Vblock Systems Portfolio
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13. ENABLING CONVERGED OPERATIONS
Management Tools
OPEN API
Customer Choice
VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations software
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14. VCE LIFECYCLE SYSTEM ASSURANCE:
LOWERS TCO AND RISK
System optimization
Update/validation
Interoperability testing
Regression testing
Ongoing release matrix/code currency
Design for continuous interoperability
Current and Optimized
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15. VBLOCK SOLUTIONS
Acceleration Suites
Vblock Systems Are Optimized To Deliver World Class Performance And
Time-to-market For Mission Critical Work Loads.
Messaging
Collaboration
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ERP
Virtual Desktop
Database
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16. SERVICES PORTFOLIO
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
SUPPORT SERVICES
ADVISORY
TECHNOLOGY
MANAGED
LIFECYCLE
ASSURANCE
Consultative expertise
to accelerate
transformation
Expertise to deploy,
migrate, and
implement Vblock;
integration of solutions
Ongoing management
and operation of
infrastructure
World-class
seamless support
and proactive
lifecycle assurance
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17. USE CASE
Initiative Requirements
 Mission-critical operations  Scale quickly
 100% uptime
 Agile infrastructure to support governmentfunded healthcare programs
 Time-to-market
Solution
Standardize on Vblock System 700 and Vblock
System 300 families
“We’re more competitive because we can
provision new infrastructures right away and
handle spikes in processing loads by the states
without burdening our engineers. Our partnership
with VCE has been very powerful.”
Marivi Stuchinsky, Asst. Vice President,
Enterprise Infrastructure Services
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Business Benefit
 More agile in responding to growth while
increasing application performance and
availability
 A 4:1 reduction in data center footprint and
decreased power and cooling usage
 Improved total cost of ownership due to
minimized requirements for implementation,
administration, and support resources
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18. USE CASE
Initiative Requirements
 New SAP ERP system
 Support projected tripling in company revenue to $5 billion
 Legacy systems costly to operate and support
Solution
Business Benefit
Standardize on Vblock System 700 family
“The SAP modules running on Vblock
Systems are screaming fast and far exceeded
our performance expectations.”
Michael Leeper, Senior Manager, IT
Engineering
 SAP reports are executed eight times faster,
supporting faster decision making
 Accelerated product designs and production plans,
by spinning up test environments in two hours
compared to six weeks
 Meet long-term growth objectives while boosting
performance and scalability and improving
efficiency and simplifying administration
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19. IT TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITIES
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Data center consolidation
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Private and Hybrid Cloud
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Rapid deployment greenfield projects
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Virtualizing mission critical apps
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VDI & Unified Communications
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LEAD YOUR
TRANSFORMATION
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