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SEWP IT Trends

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Our Vision / Mission for SEWP

“To be the premier customer-focused contract vehicle for federal government purchases of IT products”

“To serve up fresh technologyfor federal agencies”

Hardware

Software

IT Solutions

Maintenance

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SEWP by the numbers

1,000,000+ Line Items

550,000+ Unique products

16 Competed Prime contractors; 8 small businesses

3 Non-competed 8(a) set-aside contracts

2,000+ Manufacturers

24 Hours to add new products

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Focus for Today

Survey of current SEWP Contract Holders plus meetings with 45+ industry leaders point towards key areas of emphasis in IT industry

Focus on a few trends in • Computer technology

• Storage / Archiving

• Security

Example of SEWP and new technology

Not comprehensive for Industry or SEWP

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Computer Technology - CPU

Dual / Quad / … CPUs• AMD and Intel both have dual-core processors now

- http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8825,00.html

- http://www.intel.com/business/bss/products/server/dual-core.htm?ppc_cid=ggl|dualcor_b2b|k3675|s

• Quad core processors in 2007

• Improved power for less heat and energy

• Software price implications

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Computer Technology - Disk

Disk Technology• SATA: Serial ATA drives ( standard in HDD/motherboard interfaces)

are fast with the first generation having a volume of 150 MB/sec compared to Parallel ATA (PATA) drive's 100 MB/sec. SATA 3Gb/s is predicted to go up to 300 MB/sec. This compares to USB interfaces at 60 MB/sec and firewire volume of 200 MB/sec.

- http://www.sata-io.org

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Computer Technology – Blades and Desktops

Centralized PC Blade Solutions

Example: ClearCube - http://www.clearcube.com

• PC Blade – rack mounted computer

• Cage – houses up to 8 PC blades

• User port – VHS-sized desk unit (replaces desktop PC)

• Central management software

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Storage Virtualization

Definition• An intelligent device that sits in front of external storage systems and provides various levels

of system and data management functionality. The storage virtualization platform is essentially a storage controller that manages external storage systems. (The Storage Virtualization Landscape by The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)

• http://www.hds.com/pdf/Storage%20Virtualization%20Landscape%20ESG%20Report%20July%202005.pdf

Virtualization Objectives• Masking complexity of infrastructure

• Maximize Storage utilization by creating virtual pools of storage resources

• Movement without disruption and Centralized Management

Leading companies• EMC, IBM, NetApp and Hitachi.

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Storage Virtualization Example

The Hitachi TagmaStore USP : a high-end storage virtualization solution

• www.hds.com

• Maximum of 192 FC ports

•Maximum of 128 GB of cache memory

• Up to 16 Ethernet ports for NAS connectivity

• Support for up to 32 PB of managed storage capacity

• Up to 2 million IOPS • FC, Escon and Ficon connectivity in any combination

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E-mail Archiving and Storage

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)• Retention and storage of e-mail

- Enormous quantity

- Retention Policies/ Regulation

- User needs and wants

- http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/47139/Windows_47139.html

Example of Current Technology: Veritas Enterprise Vault- http://eval.veritas.com/mktginfo/products/Datasheets/Data_Protection/ent_vault_6_corporate_overvie

w_04182005_dsht.pdf

• Enterprise Vault software helps address: - • Application Storage Management

- • Compliance Retention & Discovery

- • Operational Excellence

- • Knowledge Exploitation

- • Upgrade, Migration & Consolidation

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Global Data Services

High performance and secure access to shared data across Wide Area Network

• Geographic Caching

• Access-Sensitive Data Migration

• Distributed Meta-Data Directories

• Site-Aware Geographic RAID

• Multi-Site Synchronous I/O

• Coherent Asynchronous I/O

• Network Fencing and Incremental Re-Synch

• Parallel High-Speed Data Transport - http://www.yottayotta.com/global.html

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Wireless Security

WiFi Wireless with integrated FIPS 140-2 and 802.11i security

• Example: 3e Technologies Inc.- wireless infrastructure networking options centered on secure access points:

DoD-proven security, mesh networking, ruggedized enclosures, harsh environments, extreme temperatures, wireless video, bridging, repeating,

- http://www.3eti.com/

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Enterprise-Wide Information Protection

Need to mitigate risk and meet strict information protection requirements

• Example: Vormetric CoreGuard

• Personal Data Privacy Protection

• Digital Information Asset Protection

• Enforcement of IT Governance Policies- http://www.vormetric.com/solutions/

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Physical Access / Biometrics

Card scanners

Iris scanners

Facial Recognition

Fingerprint access

Digital Fingerprint capture• Example: Lite-X

- http://www.lite-x.net/Technical_Specs/technical_specs.html

- Fingerprint / demographic / signature capture

- Immediate quality checking, display, formatting, electronic transmission

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Thank You!

V. 08/02/2005