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Virtualization - Business Basics
Frank Beckereit,
Consultant Expert Datacenter
Dimension Data Germany AG & Co KG
Virtualization – How it started…
Nobody really could see where this would lead to…
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In the current economic climate, it’s important for IT to focus on initiatives that have strong business benefits
Business Impact
Scope
Scale of Benefits
Complexity of Delivery
Capacity and Performance
Fitness for Purpose
Enable other
Technology
EnableBusiness Comms
Enable Process Change
EnableOperational Innovation
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IT initiatives can drive savings in procurement, IT and business costs, and enable business process change
Lower Day-to-dayIT Operations Costs
Reduced Business Costs
Process Change and Innovation
Reduce the Overall Cost of IT Procurement
Capacity and Performance
Fitness for Purpose
Enable other
Technology
EnableBusiness Comms
Enable Process Change
EnableOperational Innovation
Business Impact
Complexity of Delivery
Scale of Benefits
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Creating real commercial returns can be challenging, but IT infrastructure can help deliver savings in four ways. . .
Reducethe Cost of Overall IT
Procurement
Reducethe Cost of Overall IT
Procurement
Innovate& Change
Business Processes to be more Optimal
Innovate& Change
Business Processes to be more Optimal
Lower Day-to-day
IT Operations Costs
Lower Day-to-day
IT Operations Costs
11 ReduceBusiness
Costs throughTechnology Solutions
ReduceBusiness
Costs throughTechnology Solutions
3322
eProcurement, Supply Chain, Licensing,
Financing, etc.Exam
ple
Offe
rs Automation and managed services, consolidation , etc.
Reduce need for travel through conferencing,
etc.
Voice self-service, Wireless location based
services, etc.
Enab
le
Procurement, Supply Financing
Capacity & Performance
Fitness for purpose
Other TechnologiesCommunications
Process ChangeOperational Innovation
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Adopting Virtual Infrastructure, Data Minimisation solutions, & consolidating Data Centres reduces costs and improve agility
Business Impact
Reduce energy consumption, & improve Data Centre Utilisation & Availability by upgrading
Power & Cooling
Reduce energy consumption, & improve Data Centre Utilisation & Availability by upgrading
Power & Cooling
Defer costs & improve compliance
through Data Minimisation
Defer costs & improve compliance
through Data Minimisation
Increase Agility & reduce Cost base
through Virtualisation
Increase Agility & reduce Cost base
through Virtualisation
Drive efficiency through Data
CentreConsolidation
Drive efficiency through Data
CentreConsolidation
Capacity and performance
Fitness for purpose
Enable other technology
Enable business comms
Enable process change
Enableoperational innovation
Com
plex
ity o
f del
iver
y
Sca
le o
f ben
efits
ScopeBITKOM – Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V. 6
Gartner Maturity Model – Where are we today ?
Agility
Economics
Basic
RationalizedVirtualized
Service-Based
StandardizedReduce
complexity Economies
of scaleFlexibility
Service-level
deliveryReact
Weeks Weeks to days
Weeks to minutes MinutesMonths to
weeks
Cost center
Static usage
Flexible usage costing
Variable usage costing
Subsidized
Real-Time
Business agility
Minutes to secondsVariable business
investmentBasic SLAs
Class-of-service SLAs
Flexible SLAs
End-to-end SLAsNo SLAs Business
SLAsQuality of
Service
Chaotic Proactive ServiceReactive ValueIT Management Process Maturity
Source:Gartner
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Data Center Optimization Potential
Example Cost Benefit:1 admin to 100+ servers
vs. 1 admin to 5-10 servers
Example Speed Benefit:Roll out security patches in 1-4 hours
vs. 2-3 days Resources
Identities/Security
Workloads/Data
Pro
visi
onin
g
Optimization
Availability
Real-Time Infrastructure
Standardize Infrastructure
Automate
Standardize Process
Optimize
Example DR/BCP Benefit:Recover critical services instantly or
in minutes vs. hours or days
What Is Real-Time Infrastructure?
A real-time infrastructure is:An IT infrastructure shared across customers, business units or applications …Where business policies and service-level agreements drive dynamic and automatic optimization of the IT infrastructure …Thereby reducing costs while increasing agility and quality of service.
Resources
Identities/Security
Workloads/Data
PoliciesIT service definitionsService agreements Business priorities
ServicesThat meet business requirements
Pro
visi
onin
g
Self-discover, install and integrate.
OptimizationEfficient use of resources to service policies.
Availability
Avoid, predict and react to failures.
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Roadmap for Change
Virtualization of distributed systems offers the fastest opportunity to reduce physical assets and drives down the need for supporting resources
Begin with an assessment of the as-is technologies & ROI
Operational Readiness programs to ensure value is realized and scale is attainable
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Virtualization – So where is it today…
Today virtualization touches everything…!
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Technology and Operations
Risk management1
Service Level management2
ITIL Process Maturity3
Business Alignment4
Budget Competency5
People Competency6
Compute Platform1
Storage Infrastructure2
Backup and Recovery3
Disaster Recovery4
Information Lifecycle Management5
Infrastructure Management6
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The Virtual Ressource Pool - a „Generic Layer Model“
Layer of Abstraction(Virtualization)
ResourceUser
StorageStorage
Real Resources
NetworkNetworkServerServer ManagementManagement
Virtual Machines
Hardware
Virtual Machine Mgr
GuestEnv. 1
GuestEnv. 2
Virtualizing Environments
Terminal Services
Hardware
UserEnvironment
App A
App B
Virtualizing Individual Applications
UserEnvironment
Server
IT Virtualization —The pooling of resources in a way that masks the physical nature and boundaries of those resources from the resource users
Source: Gartner
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Gartner Maturity Model – Still valid ?
Agility
Economics
Basic
RationalizedVirtualized
Service-Based
StandardizedReduce
complexity Economies
of scaleFlexibility
Service-level
deliveryReact
Weeks Weeks to days
Weeks to minutes MinutesMonths to
weeks
Cost center
Static usage
Flexible usage costing
Variable usage costing
Subsidized
Real-Time
Business agility
Minutes to secondsVariable business
investmentBasic SLAs
Class-of-service SLAs
Flexible SLAs
End-to-end SLAsNo SLAs Business
SLAsQuality of
Service
Chaotic Proactive ServiceReactive ValueIT Management Process Maturity
Source:Gartner
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Summary
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Thank you for your time and interest
Frank Beckereit ([email protected] oder 0151 12528703)
Thank you for your time and interest
Frank Beckereit ([email protected] oder 0151 12528703)
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