Creating a Real Time - Unisys · 2007-05-17 · Ø IBM z Series (MVS) Ø IBM Series i5 Series...
Transcript of Creating a Real Time - Unisys · 2007-05-17 · Ø IBM z Series (MVS) Ø IBM Series i5 Series...
Creating a Real Time Infrastructure
Bridging the IT gap by leveraging your current
staff and budget
Queenstown – May 16, 2007
Software Management and Associates (SMA)
Partners with UNISYS for IT Automation
Agenda
ØCIO IT challenges ØWhat others and SMA see Solving the dilemmas with IT Real Time automation ØSMA solution
ØSummary
Infrastructure: From Projects to Strategies, From BackBurner to FrontandCenter
Key Points: • Infrastructure is an inhibitor and an important enabler for business improvement
• Users are shifting their focus from projects and simple costcutting to strategic plans
• Infrastructure evolution is a winwin proposition for vendors and customers
• The Infrastructure Maturity Model is a blueprint for a strategic plan to evolve the IT infrastructure
Top Ten CIO Priorities for 2006: 1. Delivering projects that enable business
growth 2. Linking business and IT strategies and plans 3. Building business skills in the IS organization 4. Demonstrating the business value of IT 5. Attracting, developing, retaining IS
personnel 6. Applying metrics to the IS organization and IT
services 7. Improving the quality of IS service delivery 8. Flexible technology infrastructure 9. Improving IT governance 10. Consolidating the IS organization and
operations
(Survey of more than 1,400 CIOs published January 2006)
CIO Challenges
Ø Maximize return on IT investments – do more with less and reduce overall TCO to your business
Ø IT is growing more complex: both systems and data
Ø Improve the level of service to end users and customers yet contain costs
Ø Have increased agility to stay ahead of the competition by having business and IT workflows that can automatically adapt to changing environments
Ø Rapidly provision new services or scale established services as required
Ø Reduce costs without impacting the quality of service
Ø Reduce or eliminate human error from IT processing Ø Skill levels decreasing Ø Staff turnover
Ø Compliance requirements driving more need for audit trails
Ø Want to take important steps towards having a RealTime Infrastructure (RTI) examples: Carnival Cruise, HHSC, Florida Dept of Rev., Dollar Universe, LODH
What CIO’s are saying to SMA
Increasing complexity – 2000
File X
2000
Unix SYS 1 Job C
Unisys ClearPath Job A
IBM Mainframe Job B
File A
HP Sys 2 Job D
Mainframes and a few servers was easy
Job B AIX System 8
Job D Windows Sys 5
Job F Unix Sys A
Job C ES7000 Windows 6
Job A Z/OS System 5 Job M
LIBRA Job A
DORADO Job S
Job X
Job P
Job Z Linux Sys 1
Job R iSeries Sys 10
Job O
Job Q LINUX Sys 9
File A
File G
File B
File N
Job J UNIX Sys 3
Job Y
Event 1
File I
Trigger A
Trigger X and Job M Complete
Today More servers everywhere, more applications,
More interdependencies, more data, more processes, procedures…
?
Operating with a high agility level Many systems have job and process priority settings to
provide high levels of response times:
ØOS2200 – REALTIME equivalent ØMCP – REALTIME equivalent ØIBM Z/OS REALTIME equivalent ØUNIX – REALTIME equivalent setting ØAnd EVEN WINDOWS has process setting called REALTIME ØSystem User/End User = HUMAN TIME (what to do when)
Data Explosion Just when you got used to hard drives with hundreds of gigabytes (hundreds of billions of bytes) they do it: make one with a terabyte (a trillion bytes).
Yes, you can now get a terabyte hard drive on a desktop PC. Breaking the ice with a Hitachi drive…... The 1T option initially costs $500.
In case you’re wondering, as printed text a terabyte would occupy 100 million reams of paper, consuming some 50,000 trees. It is enough to hold 16 days (not hours) of DVDquality video, or a million pictures, or almost two years worth of continuous music
Source: Yahoo News, April 9, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070409/sc_livescience/newharddrivesholdaterabyteofdata
A PC!
The translation to server data storage is orders of magnitude more!!
Where to invest? Unisys research
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IT Operational Spend Outpaces Hardware Spend And Is Growing Disproportionately
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
2006 2007 2008 2009
IT Ops spend Server Spend
Server technology alone does not address customer needs to lower operational spend
Source: Unisys research
Customer requirements • High utilization of assets • Automation to reduce IT human capital • Proactive management of IT assets • Visibility and intelligent decision making
• Dynamic and flexible infrastructure $B
ONE Source Unisys – UNITE 2006
Ø Studies show that IT staff spend about 60% of their valuable time dealing with abnormal events.
Ø Complex environments with many different operating systems means it can be difficult to manage crossplatform business process flow.
Ø Managing growth within the Enterprise. New projects invariably result in additional systems, increasing complexity and the ability to manage the environment.
Ø Human error. Complex environments result in operational mistakes that can affect contracted SLAs, liability, reputation or even financial penalties.
Common IT Business Issues Today
Ø Have a complex, growing environment with many different systems
Ø Need to implement consistent business workflow processes that are consistent, documented, repeatable and auditable
Ø Want to reduce the elapsed time of the 'batch processing window' by initiating dependent processes milliseconds after any dependencies are met
Ø Need to automate and capture Disaster Recovery procedures ensuring fast accurate recovery if required?
Ø Relying on a small number of key individuals who have all of the knowledge about your Enterprise? What if they are suddenly no longer there
Ø Many separate tools for Process Automation, Monitoring, Batch Processing and many of these that are specific to a single environment
Ø Have issues with understanding all of the interdependencies between systems, work flows and events that may happen in your Enterprise Ø Including hundreds of file transfers daily
Today’s Challenges and Needs
Today’s Challenges
ØGuaranteed service level
ØNo loss of data
Service Quality
ØRapid application Implementation ØRapid change
Agility Cost
Ø Low operational cost
Ø Low capital expenditure
IT infrastructure is challenged to support business goals
Source Unisys – UNITE 2006
Automation is the base for RTI
Ensure a timely and sure operation
Employee Knowledge
Process Automation
Event-Driven Automation
File Transfer
Business Integration
Global Functions
Auditing Capabilities
Automatic reaction on external and internal events
Secure and monitored File Transfer
Integration with ERP solutions like SAP or Business Workflow
Manager
Control of distributed / remote Data Centers
Have the data ready for any kind of audit
(ISO, SLA, SOX)
How to operate in RealTime IT Automation
Event Driven Automation Event = A change on a Process or System Status
Log
Threshold Event
Power / UPS
Operations Sentinel
Datacenter Environment
Network Monitoring
File incoming changes etc.
incoming Email
Database Monitoring
User actions
Log Monitoring
System Monitoring
Action
Alert
calendar
IT Business process moving ahead to RealTime Infrastructures
Ø “SMA OpCon/xps helps us maintain quality, consistency and speed of production in a heterogeneous environment,” “It’s improved our efficiency fivefold. We haven’t had to add new operators or hardware to keep up with growth. With SMA OpCon/xps, our existing staff can handle the workload.”
Doug Eney
Carnival Cruise VP of Information Systems Engineering.
Ø “We do more now with fewer people since installing OpCon/xps. “OpCon/xps gives us a clearer, centralized picture of our daily processing. On one screen, we can quickly see whether all jobs completed in the correct order. We don’t have to check numerous individual screens and multiple checklists.” Martin Summers VP Technology Services Texas State Bank
Ø "We are very pleased with the OpCon/xps product. It is everything that was discussed and more. In fact, this product has been so successful for us that we are being approached by other credit unions about it! We look forward to moving ahead with further development in the future."
Gary Glenn VP Technology Services Synergent
Ø ... a wide range of environments supported Ø Unisys MCP, OS2200 & ES7000 Ø IBM zSeries (MVS) Ø IBM Series i5Series (OS/400), HP OpenVMS, MPE/iX, NonStop (Tandem)
Ø Unix (including Solaris, AIX, Tru64 Unix, HP/UX) Ø Linux Ø Microsoft Windows(2000,XP,2003) Ø SAP
Ø All features come in one package and is more cost effective than then our competitors
SMA in support of real IT needs
OpCon/xps – Enterprise Automation
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