© ORSYP 2011 Confidential Best practices for optimum IT Capacity Utilization UKCMG 2011 Tony Beeston Product Marketing.

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Best practices for optimum IT Capacity Utilization

UKCMG 2011

Tony Beeston Product Marketing

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The challenges in the IT department

meet service levels

budget constraint

100’s of servers, and growing...

physical, virtual, cloud...

1000’s of IT requests, and growing...

dozens of vendors

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Our pragmatic approach for optimum capacity utilization

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What’s the idea?

Our approach is: A search for the IT infrastructure best efficiency Based on Lean and 6-Sigma industry methods A balance between “Do more with less” and “Assurance of future

sustainability” An on-going process, not a one time project

And it will Show you how to optimize utilization of your IT assets Identify IT assets you can reclaimProactively make you aware of future IT resources organic

needs

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What’s in it for me?

Benefits of our approach Increased efficiency Cost savings resulting in more economic provisioning of IT services Deferred expenditure Elimination of expensive panic buying Better and more informed acquisition of IT resources Less need for reactive support

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Based on

LEAN

6-Sigma

Aim at power reserve targets - Improvement

Assess new situation – measure improvement

Identify servers under-utilized - Waste

See how your IT is being used – Median

Establish operational utilization levels – Goals

Our 2-phase approach to improve efficiency

Step 1: Capacity Utilization Assessment

Step 2: Tuning for best utilization

Continuous Improvement

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Phase 1: Capacity Utilization Assessment

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Phase 1: Capacity Utilization Assessment

Servers that can be reclaimed Servers for consolidation - virtualization Servers over-utilized

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Phase 2: Tuning for best utilization

Principles Servers don’t run at 100% capacity and should not. You want to increase resource utilization close to the target operational levels And leave just enough power reserve to prevent resource contention

Power ReserveUtilization

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Phase 2: Tuning for best utilization

Implement recommendations

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Current level

Optimum

utilization

Operational risk

Poor asset leverage

Target utilization

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Phase 2: Tuning for best utilization

Assess new situation

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Customer Case

Capacity management to discover and exploit the hidden value of unused resources

Large European Investment Bank

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Key Facts

Large European Investment Banks using the Data Synapse platform

Complex grid-computing infrastructure calculating bond rate position & derivatives

Growth rate of 800 servers per year to accommodate calculation

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Challenges

Rapidly growing infrastructure, yet stagnating performance

Inability to visualize utilization of existing resources

Unexplainable saturation & underutilization levels throughout the grid

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Benefits

50% increase in calculation rate per server

Reduce hardware investments by 45%

Improve capacity utilization & exploit existing resources

Global visibility of the grid, its components, and how they are used by the different business : next step -> chargeback

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Contact Information

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