Modern Platform

Chris Swan (@cpswan)VP, CTO DXC Technology Global Delivery Organization

20 Sep 2017

▪ Agile, DevOps, Design for Operations – different facets of the same

essential part of the Digital Journey

▪ The four key attributes of Modern Platform

▪ The value of Modern Platform

▪ Summary

Agenda

This ‘DevOps’ thing, and why I’m talking

about Design for Operations

All Industries Evolve

Design for Purpose

Design for Operations

Design for Manufacture

IT Is No Different

Design for Purpose

Design for Operations

Design for Manufacture

Agility, Agility, Agility

High-performing IT organizations report experiencing:

200x

2,555x

more frequentdeployments

lower change failure rate

shorter lead times

faster recovery from failures

24x

3x

Source: 2016 State of DevOps Report

Business Agility

Agile Software Platform

Agile Infrastructure

Being Agile to WinJohn Boyd’s OODA Loop

Getting a more agile infrastructure:

Modern Platform

The four qualities of Modern Platform

1. Partner Engineered System

2. Hyper Converged Infrastructure

3. Small Entry Level

4. Value Optimised Architecture

Partner Engineered System

Reduces time to value, because Hitachi takes responsibility for:

▪ Build

▪ Integration of components

▪ Testing and validation

The result is a turnkey system that’s data centre ready 45 days after

placing an order

Hyper Converged Infrastructure

A building block for the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC)

▪ VSAN for Software Defined Storage

▪ NSX for Software Defined Networking

▪ vCenter for a familiar admin environment and API

▪ vCloud Foundation (VCF) pulls everything together

‒ SDDC Manager for ongoing updates etc.

Small Entry Level

Field sales told us that 100VMs was the sweet spot for opportunities that we were missing

But price needed to stay in line with previous offerings using Hyper Converged Infrastructure

Value Optimised Architecture

Focus was on total cost of ownership - $/VM

Software defined means license cost dominated

Single socket systems to get our desired entry level

Half the sockets – half the license cost

The value of Modern Platform

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The target we set ourselves a year ago

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Modern Platform – Value Proposition

By Leveraging Hitachi’s R&D:

▪ DXC reduces latency, and orients DXC investments to higher order/ differentiated services.

▪ Faster technology adoption & GTM cycles with a joint governance model

Pre-integration can include:

▪ Business continuity services from STaaS

▪ AT&T network delivery

▪ BPS and Security wrapper

Both Capex and Opex models available

Can address both horizontal and vertical/industry use cases

Better, Faster, Cheaper

Better through life maintenance experience

Faster time to market for new hardware

&

Faster from order to install

Lower cost per VM

A first step in design for operations

Turnkey operation addresses day 1

VMware SDDC is familiar for day 2+

We can now push up the stack

Powered by Modern Platform:A foundation for other offerings

Cloud

Workplace

Big Data & Analytics

The Modern Platform base

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Data

Runtime

Middleware

OS

Applications

Modern Platform

Infrastructure

Enterprise Hosting “powered by Modern Platform”

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Data

Runtime

Middleware

OS

Applications

Enterprise Hosting

Infrastructure as-a-Service

MSV “powered by Modern Platform”

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Data

Runtime

Middleware

OS

Applications

Private Cloud

Platform as-a-Service

Workplace VDI “powered by Modern Platform”

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Data

Runtime

Middleware

OS

Applications

Workplace VDI

Software as-a-Service

Modern Platform Offering Engagement Process

Opportunity Identified

DXC Collects Requirements

DXC Uses Configurator

ROM

BOM

Partner & VMWare Regional Sales

Rep

Quotes

PRB ApprovalDXC Raises P.O.sDXC Attach

MP SOWs

Partner Build Factory

Partner Deliver, Connect & Configure

Partner Handover to DXC

DXC Offering Delivery Build VMs

and Remaining Environment

ORR

Handover to DXC Delivery

Operations

We’re nearing the end…

Summary

Fully integrated Compute, Storage, Networking, Software and

through life-support, scaling non-disruptively from entry level

suitability to rack scale all consumed via industry standard APIs

Software Defined, Hyper-Converged, All Flash

Infrastructure.

Partner Engineered. Ingredients are fully integrated,

designed, engineered, delivered and supported as one.

Simplified Deployment and Through-Life Operations.

Think BIG, Start small. Scale as you need.

▪ Design thinking can drive us towards better optimised systems

▪ Lots has changed in IT over the last 20 years

‒ So why do servers still look the same?

▪ Multiple benefits are within our grasp:

‒ Cheaper bill of materials == less acquisition cost

‒ Fewer things to fail == greater reliability == less operational cost

‒ Lower power draw == greater density == less operational cost

The Journey doesn’t end here…

Q & A

Thank You