New Thinking on Converged Infrastructure - Dell World 2011

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New thinking on converged infrastructure

Mike Kimble

VIS Marketing Manager

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The virtual era requires we

challenge the status quo. The IT agenda has changed

Make IT an engine to achieve

your mission

Deliver IT as a service

Accelerate delivery of new products across the organization

Run IT as a

business

Becoming a key partner in delivering your organization’s mission

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Why is virtualization so challenging? Two-thirds of organizations have virtualized 50% or less of their infrastructure1

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Time

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Process

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Skill

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Virtual era success requires focus on people & processes, not just technology

Efficiency = High flexibility, low capital expenditures & optimized IT management time

Processes

Technology

People

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Keys to the next generation data center

Go beyond the rack, reduce maintenance to <50% & sustain it

Address people, process and technology

Optimize IT services delivery

Affordably start the transition to IT-as-a-Service

Leverage cloud efficiencies where it makes sense

Standardize, simplify and automate the data center you already own

Quickly deploy resources via self-service with governance

Optimize without starting over

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Next generation data centers are flexible and adaptable to today’s IT needs

Reduced operational costs

Improved business agility

Centralized control and streamlined deployment

On-demand IT and service delivery

Optimized utilization & flexibility

Managed heterogeneous, pooled infrastructure

Infrastructure

Management

Services

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Dell VIS Solution today Take advantage of the latest technology in your existing data center & intelligently complement familiar virtualization management infrastructure

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Self Service Portal / Workload Orchestration & Governance / Showback

VIS Self-Service Creator™

Hardware management via virtualization management consoles

Dell Management Plug-in with VMware vCenter

Dynamic workload mobility and recovery management

Advanced Infrastructure Manager™

Infrastructure Intelligent hardware

“ The way that AIM handles workload mobility is unique and allows the application to

quickly move to new servers in the event of an outage.”

- Jim Bottum, CIO

Clemson University

Challenge – Seasonal demand, usage spikes

Org issue – Availability and uptime

IT issue – Meeting demand, anticipating spikes

Dell solution – Dell AIM

Results – • Capacity on demand

• Physical to virtual workload portability

• Rapid restart and / or retarget of workloads for high availability

• Enabled a heterogeneous infrastructure strategy

“AIM allows us to deploy new services in one sitting instead

of a multi-month project, and that’s what cloud

computing is all about.”

- Anthony Davis, Middleware Core Engineering

Dell IT

Challenge – Moving Oracle WebLogic to VMware for efficiency

Org issue – Tight OpEx and CapEx controls, speed to solution

IT issue – IT silos, tight coupling of HW and SW

Dell solution – Dell AIM & Dell Blades

Results – • Virtualized previously un-virtualizable

applications

• 80% reduction in rack footprint

• Provision cloud services in minutes vs months

• 30% decrease in management time

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Success starts with Dell Consulting Services

AIM/VIS Technology Introduction

& POC

Explores key use cases to enable understanding in your lab environment on new or existing HW

Efficient Architecture

Workshop Sets direction for VIS adoption

VIS/AIM Accelerator

Prepares for valuable production use and operational readiness

VIS/AIM Design & Implementation –

Full Integration Integrates VIS components and/or your tools

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vs. days or months

Respond in minutes

Comprehensive

Physical & virtual environments

64% Automate & consolidate

Benefits of Dell’s Virtual Integrated System

End-to-end

-46% Reduce acquisition

costs

-37% Lower IT costs +85%

Resolve issuers faster (mean time to resolution)

>3X 80% Increased productivity per admin

Fewer management tools

Fewer tasks

Dell System Management

Portfolio

The individual hardware layers

Integrated infrastructure management

Dell Virtual Integrated System

The infrastructure management & IT service layers

• Converged management • Automated self-service

delivery of IT resources • Dynamic workload mobility

• Performance monitoring • Capacity management • Physical & virtual

• Automation • Bare-metal provisioning • Integration with mgmt.

frameworks & consoles

• Simplified parts replacement

• Versions & updating of firmware and BIOS

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Idea exchange session

How automated is your

IT infrastructure? Do you offer self-service IT?

Can you manage physical and virtual as a single pool of assets?

How can we better help?

Please take a moment and provide feedback on this session. www.dellworld.com/feedback

Thank you for attending.

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Thank you!