This document discusses how a cancer center achieved agility with a cloud infrastructure built on IBM System Storage. It describes how the center previously lacked a cloud-ready, tier 1 storage solution and suffered from poor performance, complexity, and lack of agility. With help from consulting partner thinkASG, the center implemented IBM Cloud technologies like IBM SVC SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center, IBM XIV, and IBM FlashSystem Storage. This new private cloud solution provides benefits like elasticity, self-provisioning, ubiquitous access, security, reduced costs, and improved performance.

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Cancer Center Achieves
Agility with Cloud
Infrastructure Built on IBM
System Storage
Rich de Michele
thinkASG
Session 1530

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Enterprise IT Consulting company driven by
a passion to Create Clients for Life.
We help align technology with the goals and
objectives of the business.
21+ years as IBM Elite Partner
Who We Are

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Begins to Deliver IT as a Service
Focus on the Outcome, not the Infrastructure
Flexibility, Capacity, Security, Cost, Open
Why Cloud?
Easier is better, right?

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Unique consulting process called yourBusiness.
yourCloud – Where to put my workloads/apps
yourData – Unlock ways to better manage my business data
yourSupport – Is everything I need to run my business supported
yourMobility – Support my expanding mobile workforce
yourSecurity – Is my business protected
Our Approach

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What do these have in common?

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What do these have in common?
They allow you to Set It and Forget It
Automation
IBM Virtualization and Easy Tier

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Customer Case Studies
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IBM Cloud Storage Case Study examples
• Cancer Center
• Fortune 10 customer
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Media and Entertainment
• Automotive
• Finance
• Genomics
• Distribution

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Pre-IBM Infrastructure snapshot
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Pre-IBM IT Challenges
• Not ‘Cloud Ready’
• Lack of Tier 1 for mission critical applications
• Terrible Performance – latency & IOPs
• Complexity
• Uptime/reliability
• Zero Agility
• Cost of Management

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yourBusiness solution objectives
• Seek out new infrastructure with the following criteria
• Cloud Ready
– Agility
– Accessibility
– Provision, don’t procure
• Reliability – Enterprise class data availability & protection
• Failure Protection – Ability to recover from single component
failure
• Simplicity of Management
• Performance
• Scalability

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IBM Cloud Technologies
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Private Cloud Enabling Technologies:
IBM SVC SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
• EasyTier
• HA/DR Replication Ready Infrastructure
IBM XIV
• Cost and speed is unparalleled
• true Grid Technology
IBM FlashSystem Storage
• Ultra fast, lowest latency
• EMR, Database and Enterprise Applications on IBM Tier 0
(FlashSystem)

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End State Vision
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XIV

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IBM Cloud Delivered Benefits
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• Elasticity – The Private Cloud solution enables client to
scale their infrastructure on-demand to quickly meet
new requirements, challenges and growth.
•Self-Provisioning – users and researchers have the ability
to Self-Provision compute and storage resources On-
Demand. This delivers a speed to business requirements in
minutes vs. days/weeks/months. Researchers are now able
to execute and provision resources immediately and at
anytime.
•Ubiquitous Access – Secure access anytime, anywhere
and from any device.

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IBM Cloud Delivered Benefits
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• Security – All the benefits of the Cloud while still retaining
100% control for security and compliance purposes.
• Cost – The new Private Cloud solution is delivering greater
than a 70% compression ratio, which significantly reduced
the amount of storage needed thus lowering the overall Total
Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Performance – The new virtualized storage system
is providing <1ms access and 500K+ IOPS thanks to Easy
Tier and all-flash array for frequently accessed data.

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Consulting Partner
• Don’t do it alone and reinvent the wheel. Engage an expert
partner with deep experience.
• thinkASG spends the time up front to really understand what
your vision, goals and restrictions are before designing
anything.
• We are focused on our customers and how to make them
more successful.

16. Thank You
Rich de Michele
thinkASG
714-514-6109
rich@thinkasg.com