Jon Walton Director of Technology Bay Area Technology Forum November 5, 2009 Technology Consolidation: Fact or Fiction.

Jon WaltonDirector of TechnologyBay Area Technology ForumNovember 5, 2009

Technology Consolidation: Fact or Fiction

Governments Consolidation Challenge

Decentralized and independent departments managing over 1,000 servers citywide

Heterogeneous / “unique” technology based on individual department designs.

IT Costs / Resources Embedded in in 60 Department Budgets

Political – “cause and effect”

San Francisco Approach to Consolidation

Facilities …◦Study / Baseline / Plan for merging

existing datacenters to fewer / better facilities.

◦Build a new prototype communication hub / data center.

Services/Equipment …◦Study / Baseline / Plan for server

equipment consolidation.◦Set citywide technical standards /

guidelines servers, storage, switches.

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Consolidation at Facilities Consolidation at Facilities LevelLevel

Consistent with decentralized mindsetAchieves facility benefits of consolidation:

◦ Energy conservation: 50% of energy associated, can be shared in single facility

◦ Improved disaster recovery/security: appropriate infrastructure in place

Consolidation may still mean multiple facilities◦ Major service area, e.g., public safety, ◦ By geography, i.e., all data

centers/rooms/closets/cubicles in a multi tenant building consolidated

Drives equipment consolidation conversation and builds team thinking.

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Citywide Data Center Facility Citywide Data Center Facility Efficiency StudyEfficiency Study

• Baseline existing data center facilities in the city• Review the long range technology needs for data

center space• Calculate the long term power and cooling

requirements needed to support the proposed technology

• Review their operational requirements for reliability, redundancy and capacity

• Calculate the Tier rating based on their operational requirements

• Make recommendations for facility consolidation or facility modifications to meet goal of fewer / better / more cost effective facilities.

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Prototype Data Center Creates Prototype Data Center Creates Opportunity for a New ModelOpportunity for a New Model

Data Center will offer 3 options for service◦ Managed Equipment

◦ Hosted Virtual Environment

◦ Provisioned (Racked and Secured)

New Services customers want◦ High Density / High Efficiency Blade Infrastructure

◦ Virtualized Environment – Private “Cloud”

◦ Enterprise SAN/NAS

◦ Enhanced Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity

◦ Remote Monitoring and Management

Data Center Facilities changes

◦ 1800 sq.sft Footprint (n+2) – down from >15,000 sq. ft.

◦ Redesign of Network / Communication Infrastructure

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Keys to SuccessExecutive level sponsorshipLeverage private industry

expertise Deliver or Die