Power to Change also spotlights specific gains achieved by Dow Jones & Co.’s adoption of VMware cloud automation software, including an 80% improvement in operational efficiency and substantial operational savings. Learn how adopting cloud automation tools will provide a competitive edge to your organization.

1. The Power to
Change

2. Improved
IT
eficiency
IT has become more eficient by virtualizing
compute, storage and networking of
traditional infrastructure.

3. Driving IT
transformation
: Agility
According to a Gartner Data Center Poll on Private
Cloud Computing Drivers, 58% of respondents indicate agility
and speed as the most important driver in moving to
private clouds.

4. 1
Driving IT
transformation
: Cloud
automation
IT e‰ciency is continually improving at a
rapid rate, specifically in the following
areas:
2. Accelerated Service Delivery
Virtualization cuts delivery time
even further, from days down to
minutes.
4. Improved Operational E‰ciency
With automated resource
reclamation, new resources are
delivered quickly, boosting
productivity and reducing
lengthy tasks.
3. Reduced Complexity via
Standardization
The complication of
delivering and accessing
resources is nearly
eliminated.
1. Optimized Resource Utilization
Automated workflows allow
for resources to easily and e
‰ciently be maximized.
2 3 4

5. Driving IT
transformation
: Self-service
cloud
A customized self-service approach enables
faster delivery times and allows IT executives
to maintain
control over the cloud experience.

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Horizonta
l scaling
Hybrid
environmen
ts
Vertical
resource
scaling
Service
orientatio
n
On-
demand
provisionin
g
Cloud
technologies
driving
operational
change
New data from the VMware 2013 CloudOps
Transformation Benchmark Survey revealed
that automation is the #1 most
substantially impactful
transformation for IT.
This is ahead of:

7. Accelerate
service delivery
times
Reduce
cost
Improve
operational e
‰ciency
Ease
deployment
and
management
Optimize
resource
utilization
Automating
cloud
management
Automation enables IT to:

8. Reduce cost Private cloud cost savings are much easier to
quantify.
Improvements in IT e‰ciency are the foundation
for the enhancements in agility and speed
necessary to improve productivity and address
new business opportunities.

9. Improve
operational e
ciency
Horizontal
scaling
Vertical resource
scaling
Hybrid
environments
Cloud automation should support both private
and hybrid clouds, optimizing horizontal and
vertical scaling.
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10. Ease deployment
and
management
Automated resource
reclamation
Enforce governance with
policies, not people
Automating your cloud accelerates
deployment times and cuts overall
management costs.
10

11. Reclaim and
reuse inactive
resources
Leverage
tiered service
levels
Reduce
over-
provisioning
Optimize resource
utilization
Most companies assume a percentage of their
resources will be wasted because the costs to
control and reclaim manually is greater than
the savings.
However, it can account for
between 15 to 25% of
company resources.
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12. Improve
operational e
‰ciency
Optimize
resource
utilization
Accelerate
VM
deployment
s
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Cloudsyntrix
Goals

13. Cloudsyntrix
Goals
Private cloud cost savings are much easier to quantify
and justify. Improvements in IT e‰ciency are
foundational for the enhancements in agility and
speed necessary to improve productivity and
address new business opportunities.
Increase VM count by 20%
with minimal CapEx
Reduce System Admins
provisioning and
reconfiguration task time
Reduce over-provisioned
VMs
Reclaim inactive VM
capacity
Improved service delivery from
days to minutes
$106K resource
reclamation
$49K reclamation e
‰ciency
$261K total resource e
‰ciency
80% improvement in
operational e‰ciency
$132K in operational
savings
Improve operational e ciency
Business Requirements: Cloud Automation Provided:
System Admin availability to focus on new business opportunities
Optimize resource utilization
Accelerate VM deployments
Improve service delivery times to meet
increased demand

14. Lowered operational costs
80% | $132K in savings
Optimized resource utilization
20% | $261K Savings
Implementing cloud automation resulted in the following ROI:
Accelerated service delivery
98% | 4 days to 1.5 hrs.
“With VMware, we have reduced the time needed
to deploy virtual machines, as well as the e¦ort of
individuals required to focus on manual steps to
provision. This is saving money by refocusing
towards strategic activities rather than building
servers.”
Cloudsyntrix
Goals

15. Want to learn more
about how
automating cloud
service delivery can
save cost
while access to IT
resources and
applications?