5 Ways to Reduce Costs While Modernizing Your Infrastructure

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The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a new but already proven architecture that leverages IT infrastructure to enable businesses to achieve greater agility, speed, and security.

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Wheezing Infrastructure

Pressure On Many FrontsIT infrastructure is straining under the pressure of a data-intensive age. Costs are rising, and performance is lagging.

New Business Models

Power OutagesLack of VisibilityDowntime

RecoveryScalability

Rising real estate costs

Overprovisioning

Management Silos

Management Overhead

Competitive pressures Alert StormTime-to-Market

Out-of-ComplianceAdmin Time

Power Costs

Cost Transparency

CapExOpExStorage Failure

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What is the Software-Defined Data Center?

A New Architectural Approach With Many Payoffs

The Software-Defined Data

Center (SDDC) virtualizes

all infrastructure …

... which boosts performance ... … and lowers costs …

Network | Server | Storage Efficiency | Control | Agility Hardware | Energy | Admin

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Top Priorities

Meeting Long-Term StrategiesSoftware-Defined Data Center architecture empowers companies to meet three top priorities:

Next-generation data architecture and economics

Cutting-edge security and high availability

Services production at business speed

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Goal #1 | Standardization

Slashing CapEx CostsIt has many names—data center modernization, consolidation, or standardization. By any name, virtualization of the computer, network, and storage layers provides many benefits:

• Up to 49% reduction in CapEx costs

• Centralize IT

• Lower unit costs

• Improved OLAs/SLAs

• More business responsiveness

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The SDDC Journey

More Benefits With Each StepSDDC is a journey, where companies gain more efficiencies and cost-savings at each step along the path.

Stage Products Objective Benefits Payoff

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

vSphere with Ops. Mgmt. ENT+ vRealize Operations Insight

Virtual SAN, NSX SRM (for DC Migration only)

vCloud Air vRealize Suite

Compute VirtualizationManagement

Software Defined Storage/Network Virtualization

Hybrid Cloud and ease of management

Reduce power costs, outages and admin time. Streamlined proactive management

CapEx savings, reduced downtime, faster recovery, improved security

Faster time-to-market, effective utilization of resources

35% ROI

70% ROI

78% ROI

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Goal #2 | Streamlined/Automated Operations

Making IT Truly ProactiveMany companies are constrained by complex IT infrastructure and reactive IT operations. Building more intelligence into the infrastructure achieves both cost cutting and better business performance.

Automation drives out inefficiencies in IT processes

Measure performance and associate it with costs

Cost-cutting

Business enhancement

Step Benefit

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Getting Smarter

Making IT Operations More IntelligentAn intelligent, automated network results in smarter IT —and smarter operations.

Before After Result

At Boeing , 92% of 11,000 virtual machines were overprovisioned Boeing’s daily threshold alerts dropped from 500-1,000 a day to 50-100 a day

Cornerstone Home Lending wasted resources through inability to monitor VM health

Reactive IT

Rightsized VM

Administrators can handle 60% more machines

Improved infrastructure visibility

Proactive IT

Average company enjoys 34% increase in capacity utilization

Faster mean-time-to -recovery; with average company seeing 26% improvement in diagnostic & problem resolution time

Reduced hardware costs by 70%

IT has time to provide intelligence on important cost-benefit decisions

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Goal #3 | Better Security

More Granular SecuritySDDC enables network infrastructure to be separated into granular elements, so they can be fortified at a lower cost with lower administrative overhead.

• Physical separation of security zones

• Complex, with multiple firewall ports/zones

• Many costly physical firewalls

• Each workload has its own network/security configuration

• Policy based configuration, attached to each workload

• Granular security without added complexity

• Reduce firewall costs by up to 70%

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Goal #4 | High Availability

Cut Disaster Recovery Costs in HalfTraditional DR requires expensive hardware/software that usually sits idle. SDDC simplifies business continuity and DR with automatic failovers.

• High OpEx - Management silos

• High CapEx - Duplicate storage/server hardware

• Automated pre-defined plans

• High availability when VMs/hardware crash

• Hybrid cloud for disasters/power outages

Before SDDC After SDDC

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Goal #5 | Automated Delivery

Moving at the Speed of BusinessCompanies gain competitive advantage with Application and Infrastructure Delivery Automation.

• Compute, network and storage silos managed by separate teams

• Business issues a ticket request for IT services

• Manual checking, provisioning, validation and testing

• Services delivered in weeks

• Costs hazy

• Time lost in mass of tickets

• Efficiency in the management of compute, network and storage virtualized

• Service blueprints through self-service portal

• Services request/delivered automatically

• Services delivered in minutes

• Costs can be tracked

• Rapid time-to-market

Before SDDC After SDDC

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Hybrid Cloud

Maximizing the Hybrid CloudSDDC provides a path to a true hybrid cloud, where a company can move between external and internal resources, private and public clouds, depending on the most efficient and cost-effective solution.

Apollo Education Group, which provides unique technologies and innovative solutions to the global network of academic institutions and learning platforms, embraced SDDC for its hybrid cloud.

• Lack of cost transparency

• Lack of visibility and control

• $1.6 million monthly cloud spend

• Meet demand while offering higher OLAs and SLAs

• Migrated off public cloud; easier to administer

• Reduced costs by 90%

Before SDDC After SDDC

Learn More

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