Juan Beetge, News UKAlain Geenrits, Blue Medora

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Hot off the press: News UK simplifies SDDC management

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Meet your speakers

SIMPLIFYING THE

SDDC

Juan Beetge

Senior Storage and Compute Manager

News UK

Alain Geenrits

Director Solution Architects EMEA

Blue Medora

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Deploy an intelligent operations

platform with a single view of the

entire stack.

Operationalise

Tap into the vROps analytics

engine and machine learning

capabilities using a

comprehensive data set.

Analyse

Move from a heterogenous stack

to a converged infrastructure.

Modernise

Step 2 Step 3Step 1

Three Steps to Simplifying the SDDCAGENDA

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About Us

NEWS

UK

4000+EMPLOYEES

1.8mNEWSPAPERS

EACH DAY

15+BRANDS

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Team

200+ Technology Staff

75 Infrastructure &

Operations Team

Content management

system and specific

editorial and workflow

applications

About our IT

NEWS

UK

Virtual Machines

Nearly 1,500 VMs

Applications Databases

50 in total

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Downtime ondeadlines

The challenge

16.5Average hours

downtime a month

15Average P2

incidents

a month

#1: Modernise

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• vRealize Operations

• VMware vSphere

• FlexPod solution

• Cisco UCS servers

• NetApp storage

• Cisco Nexus switches

• Citrix Netscaler load balancers

Infrastructure NetworkVirtualisation

Our solution: modernise

STEP

1

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Full-stack visibility

The challenge

#2: Operationalise

4+Tools to navigate

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Especially powerful with combining: custom reports,

dashboards and alerts.

Includes VMware monitoring

Deep out-of-the-box VMware monitoring.

Implemented IT Operational Analytics

Working on reclaiming up to 20% of resources, using

accurate analytics to right-size our environment.

Covers hybrid-cloud

Extensible platform allows for monitoring across

hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

Our solution: vRealize Suite with True VisibilityStep 2

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Keeping thePresses running

The challenge

14Tier-1 applications

1hrRecovery Time

Objective

3hrChange Window

Mon - Thu

#3: Analyze

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Our solution: use vROps to analyze and act

Combine multiple symptoms to

show actual use

Recommendations to resolve

the issue

Automated actions available

Symptoms not limited to badges:

any object, any metric

Step 3

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Reduced average downtime by 95%

Improved MTTR, by monitoring different layers at once.

Due to improved capacity planning, eliminating nearly £3 million in

storage maintenance costs over four years, with the overall estimated 4-

year cost savings at more than £6 million.

Headline resultsNews UK

ABOUT USLaser-focused on platform extensions

for 9+ years.

Applications

Data

Cloud & Virtualization

Infrastructure

Aggregate and Analyze Across the Entire StackBLUE MEDORA AND VREALIZE OPERATIONS

• VMware signs on as an

investor in Blue Medora’s

Series A funding.

• A VMware representative

joins the board.

• Blue Medora joins

VMware’s TAP.

• Work begins on first

vRealize plugins.

2014

JAN 2015

1H 2016

SEPT 2016

VMware Relationship Continues to GrowBLUE MEDORA

• Blue Medora realigns

GTM from individual

management packs, to

tiered “True Visibility

Suites.”

• True Visibility Suite

packages are built to

align with vRealize

categories.

• VMware and Blue

Medora launch a joint

reseller agreement.

• The True Visibility Suite

is added to VMware price

lists (Model N – SKUs).

APR 2017

• Blue Medora joins the

VMware vCloud Air

Network Program.

Databases Network & Compute

Extending vRealize Operations BLUE MEDORA

Enterprise Applications

√

Virtualization Storage

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CALMING THE STORM:

HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTSGreg Hohertz

Principal Solution Architect

Demo

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CALMING THE STORM:

HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTSGreg Hohertz

Principal Solution Architect

Q&A

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