FlexPod as a Competitive Edge

How Moffatt & Nichol boosted data center performance while cutting overhead

Shawn McCullough, Director of IT, Moffatt & Nichol

Mark Melvin – VP, CTO, ePlus

Patrick Rogers – VP, Data Center Platforms, NetApp

Cisco Live! Orlando, 2013

Session # BRKPCS-2027

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What If You Could… Accelerate business response

instead of being the critical path

Focus on IT innovation instead of keeping things running

Quickly support all new opportunities even opportunities not yet identified

Do it all with one architecture for any workload

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FlexPod Innovations in Data Center Technology

Unified Management

Programmable Infrastructure

Unified Fabric

Policy-based automation and service profiles Self-integrating components

Abstraction of bare metal server elements Open API for automation Orchestration through industry standard tools

Virtualization awareness Scalability without complexity High-performance I/O

Cisco Unified Computing System

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP Virtualize storage into pools Nondisruptive data motion

Unified Storage

IntelligentData Management

Built-in storage efficiency Integrated data protection

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Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp ClusteredData ONTAP

Cisco® UCS Servers and UCS Manager

FlexPod: Next Generation Integrated Infrastructure

Virtualized Storage Pool

Virtualized Compute Pool

Virtualized Network Pool

Virtualization

App AppAppAppAppApp

Bare Metal

Pool resources Single server pool / storage pool Service profiles for consistent policy-based Cisco UCS®

deployments

Abstract resources Virtualized servers and storage Stateless computing Dynamic scalability; app and

data mobility

Consume resources Service catalogs Rapid resource provisioning in

accordance with SLAs Open APIs for self-service / user-driven resource

consumption

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Leading US-based global infrastructure advisor

Engineering, planning, design, and economic analysis of waterfront and transportation infrastructure

28 global officesHeadquarters in Long Beach, California

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IT Challenges:• Manage and store large amounts of data safely and

securely• Support daily project development and delivery globally• Meet deadlines without downtime• Replace aging infrastructure (tape-based backup and

DR)

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IT Solution:• Integrated FlexPod environment running

processing-intensive applications• Workloads consolidated on FlexPod:

high-end engineering applications, Exchange, SQL server, and more.

• NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault for data protection and disaster recovery

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Solution results:• Reduced daily backup of project data - 300GB to 50 GB• Improved data recovery from hours to minutes• Savings of up to $10,000 per remote office• Cut administrative costs by 15% while boosting operation

performance and business continuity• Helped keep projects on schedule and maximize employee

productivity• Modular, scalable FlexPod architecture that grows with the

company

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FlexPod -- Breakthroughs for Your Business

Get to market fasterFreePort-McMoRan transformed SAP infrastructure to expand copper production by 1B lbs/yr

Continuous operations Sauber F1 completed all technology refreshes in two weeks with no downtime

Cut costs in half Computacenter uses 90% less storage for virtual environments

Avoid building a new data center

Loughborough University reduced 50-60 racks to just 8

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Find Out About FlexPod

Visit the NetApp stand (#711) and Cisco booth to speak with our experts

Visit the Cisco Live! NOC. FlexPod is used to run the Cisco Live! data center workloads

Download the Moffatt & Nichol success story from netapp.com

Visit http://www.netapp.com/flexpod Visit http://www.moffattnichol.com Visit http://www.eplus.com