The document discusses intelligent workload management and its importance in balancing control and flexibility across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It emphasizes the need for security and compliance in managing workloads and provides an overview of the benefits of using WorkloadIQ, including reduced IT costs and increased productivity. The content highlights the transformation of data center computing and the critical role of identity and access management.

1. WorkloadIQ ™
The intelligent way to build, secure, manage and measure workloads
across physical, virtual and cloud environments
Richard Whitehead
Director, Intelligent Workload Management
rwhitehead@novell.com
August 22, 2010

2. It's All about Balance
Control
Flexibility
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3. New Technologies
Mean New Flexibility
Virtualization Cloud
“Anything” as a Service Mobile devices
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4. Regulations Require
More Control
Operational Risk
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5. Physical, Virtual and Cloud Utilization
Percent of enterprise workloads that will run in physical,
virtual and cloud environments by 2015
Novell estimates based on IDC and Gartner data
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6. Intelligent Workload
Management
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7. Workloads Deliver a Business Service
Workloads Business Service
Database workload
on physical hardware
in a legacy data center
Application server
virtualized in a
private cloud
Presentation and Example: SAP inventory
report seen by user
graphics server in
a public cloud
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8. The Customer Challenge:
Manage a Siloed Infrastructure
Internal Cloud (On-Premise) External Cloud (Off-Premise)
Governance and Governance and Governance and
Compliance Compliance Compliance
Business Service Business Service Business Service
Firewall
Management Management Management
IT Service IT Service IT Service
Management Management Management
Physical Virtual Cloud
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9. Intelligent Workload Management:
From Silos to Services
Internal Cloud (On-Premise) External Cloud (Off-Premise)
Build
Governance and Compliance Secure
Firewall
Business Service Management Measure
IT Service Management Manage
Physical Virtual Cloud
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10. Intelligent Workload Management
Intelligent workload management
enables IT organizations to manage
and optimize computing resources
in a policy-driven, secure and
compliant manner across physical,
virtual and cloud environments to
Intelligent
deliver business services for
WORKLOAD
end customers.
Management
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11. The intelligent way to build, secure, manage and measure
workloads across physical,virtual and cloud environments

12. Data Center Computing Is Changing
Identity Is at the Center of the Transformation
Intelligent Workload
Management
Cloud
(Public and Private)
Virtualization
Single-purpose
Physical Systems
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13. Identity Is Critical
Security and identity and access
management are critical to the
success of physical, virtual and
cloud computing.
IDC Whitepaper: Intelligent Workload Management Enables Security from the Datacenter to the Cloud 2010
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14. WorkloadIQ: Lifecycle Activities
Physical Virtual Cloud
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15. WorkloadIQ: Products and Solutions
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16. Where Do I Start?
Start anywhere. Grow everywhere
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17. WorkloadIQ: Business Benefits
Ensures security and compliance
Reduces IT labor cost
Improves capital utilization
Reduces provisioning cycle times
Lowers end user IT support costs
Increases user productivity
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18. Customers Can Have Both
Control Flexibility
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19. Boost Your Genius Today
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20. Making IT Work As One™
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