The document discusses trends and growth in cloud solutions, highlighting IBM's strong presence in the industry with over 700 active clients across various sectors and a high retention rate. It emphasizes the benefits of hybrid cloud infrastructures and the importance of cost management, as companies are looking for hard dollar savings and flexibility in their IT solutions. Key infrastructure features include enterprise-grade reliability, scalability, and optimized resource allocation tailored to application workloads.

1. Cloud Trends in the IBM World
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Why the Cloud?

2.  Fast Facts
 Trends and Growth of Cloud Solutions
 The Realities
 Infrastructure
Overview

3.  Headquarters: Melville, NY
 IBM MSP Partner
 IaaS, PaaS & SaaS
 National Network of Data Centers
 20+ Years IBM Power Experience
COMPANY:
FAST FACTS
 Combined Clients: 700+ active customers
 3-yr Customer Retention Rate: 90% +
 Primary Industries: Financial, Distribution,
Education, Government, Business, Healthcare and
Manufacturing
 National Network of Reseller Partners
CUSTOMERS:
SAMPLE CLIENTELE:

4. Types of IAAS Workloads
Production High Availability
DRaasSAN Based ReplicationTest Dev
Production High Availability
DRaasSAN Based ReplicationTest Dev

5.  Fast Facts
 Trends and Growth of Cloud Solutions
 The Realities
 Infrastructure
Overview

6. Today’s Business Environment
 Companies are looking for:
 Hard dollar savings (no soft costs)
 12 month ROI
 Avoid technology refresh
 Companies that are publicly traded are
interested in:
 Pushing expenses to the next quarter/year
 Meeting Wall Street’s expectations
 Financing (to keep cash on hand)
 Links:
Trends by Industry

7. The Industry Outlook
 IDC Forecasts Public IT Cloud Services Spending Will Reach $127
billion in 2018 as the Market Enters a Critical Innovation Stage
"Over the next three to four years, IDC
expects the community of developers to
triple and to create a ten-fold increase in the
number of new cloud-based solutions.
Many of these solutions will become more
strategic than traditional IT has ever
been.”
- Frank Gens, Senior Vice President and
Chief Analyst at IDC.
“As the number of applications and use
cases explode, cloud services will reach into
almost every B2B and consumer services
marketplace.” - IDC

8. • Highly standardized infrastructure
• Virtualization
• Dynamic resource scaling
• Higher availability of systems and applications
• Lower total costs and better utilization of hardware
• Improved quality of IT services
• Secure start behind enterprise firewall
Many Clients Start the Cloud Journey
with a Hybrid Cloud
Clients are looking for benefits
from Hybrid clouds
And are preparing infrastructure
to build the foundation
Half of leading cloud adopters are planning
to include multiple systems in their cloud
infrastructures

9.  Fast Facts
 Trends and Growth of Cloud Solutions
 The Realities
 Infrastructure
Overview

10. The Business Case
(Note that acquisition costs are a small part of overall TCO)
“IT organizations are spending from 70-80% of
their total IT budgets on maintenance and
ongoing operations.
-- Forrester
“For modern IT platforms, 30% of the total cost is the cost of
acquiring the equipment. The balance is for IT labor/services to
configure, maintain, upgrade, reconfigure, and ultimately
decommission the equipment.
-- IDC
Acquisition CostAcquisition Cost
SecuritySecurity
DeploymentDeployment
DowntimeDowntime
Asset ManagementAsset Management
SoftwareSoftware
MaintenanceMaintenance
PowerPower
SpaceSpace
10%-50%
50%-90%
TCO

11.  Resource Sizing
 Budget Flexibility
 Test Environments
 Pay for what you use
 Temporary Resources
On-Demand
 Lifecycle management
 Easy Provisioning
 Simplify
administration
 Scalable
Cloud Capabilities
ITAgility
Plan
Procure
Deploy
Cloud Realities

12.  Fast Facts
 Trends and Growth of Cloud Solutions
 The Realities
 Infrastructure
Overview

13. High Value Offering
• Enterprise-level solution
• Value is easily demonstrated
• RAS
• Highly Reliable
• Highly Available
• Highly Scalable
Cloud built on IBM Power Infrastructure is more
than about saving money, it supports business
innovation, agility and effectiveness.

14. POWER i Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Optimizes the complete solution PaaS/IaaS:
• All hardware and software components
factory integrated and optimized
• Storage tuned to data needs
• Hardware directly tuned to the software
• Born virtualized and ready for cloud
• System resource allocation uniquely
optimized per selected pattern for each
application workload
Servers
Storage
Networking
Virtualization
Management
Development
Middleware
Deployment
Applications
• Pre-configured, pre-integrated
infrastructure system with
compute, storage, networking,
physical and virtual
management.

15. PureFlex System is Integrated by design
Expert
Integrated
Systems
Tightly integrated compute, storage, networking,
software, management, and security
ApplicationsTools
Compute
Storage Networking
Virtualization
ManagementSecurity

16. Power Systems Cloud Benefits
What does it mean for you?

17. Secure Data Centers
SIAS-BO3 – Waltham, MA
SIAS-NY3 – Hawthorne, NY
• Power and Utility Provider - Fully redundant with isolated paths from independent UPS and generators
• HVAC - The Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) system for the raised floor space consists of twenty-four
Computer Room Air Conditioners (CRACs) units fed from an N+1 central chilled water plant.
• Fire Detection and Suppression - dual interlock pre-action fire sprinkler system
• KeyTrak/CCTV physical access security and proximity reader card access
• 24/7 onsite security and technical personnel
*Data Center tours available upon request*
The facilities are designed to meet the stringent
demands of Enterprise customers who require reliable
availability of critical IT assets.

18. Network Overview
HA Clustered Routers and
Firewalls at the Datacenter Edge
CUSTOMER 001
CUSTOMER 002
Customer Network Segments
Securely Isolated
PowerVM
IntelVM
PowerVM
IntelVM
SIAS Resource Cloud
IBM PureSystems Infrastructure provides resources for:
IBM-Power I,AIX and Linux on PowerVM
IBM-Intel Windows and Linux on Vmware
IBM V7000 SAN Storage
*Optional Customer Communications:
MPLS, Firewall, VPN, Router Etc...
*Optional Virtual Tape Library
(VTL) - For Backups and Archiving
Internet
Customer Access
Site
L2L VPN
Client
SSL VPN

19. Data Center Redundancy
HA Clustered Routersand
Firewalls at theDatacenter Edge
Customer Network
SIAS Resource Cloud
*Optional VTL
For Backups and Archiving
SIAS Datacenter
Vision, Mimix,
Maxava, or PowerHA
Data Replication
Source
Veeam, or vSphere
Data Replication
SAN Replication
SIAS HA Resources
PowerVM
IntelVM
PowerVM
1
3
2
Internet
Customer Network
SIAS HA/DR Datacenter
IntelVM

20. Q & A