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Powering virtualization, applications and datacenter transformation with converged solutionsSteven StoverDell Enterprise Solutions Group
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48%Maintain
24%Replace/Expand existing
28%Invest
What issues does IT face today?
of downtime is caused by
human error
Rolling out new IT services takes too long
Manual and disconnected processes impact service
quality
75%of business users consider IT to be
distributed, agile, & flexible
29%
Source: InformationWeek survey of IT perception, October 2012. Forrester Research, Inc., Forrsights Budgets & Priorities Tracker Survey April, 2013. The causes & costs of data center system downtime – Advisory Board Q&A, June 2011
Just Up to
Inefficient IT leads to difficulty supporting the
business
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What else is driving convergence?
80%24068%25X80%
Cloud80% of cloud initiatives will be private and hybrid by 2014
Data center traffic25X more bandwidth (I/O) per rack needed by 2015
Operating costsIn 2012, 68% of server-related spend was on management
BYOD, mobility & VDISmartphone users work an average of 240 hours more per year
Virtualization80% server virtualizationby 2016
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Convergence is a mixed message Is this flexibility & choice?
Many providers taking a “one size fits all” approach
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Datacenter Transformation – the Optimized EnterpriseDelivering innovation and value at any scale
Opera
tional Effi
ciency
Price/Performance
Costly solutions where operational savings are consumed by high costs with a lock-in penalty
The new proprietaries
Operational costsCapital costs$$
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Complex, monolithic systems that lock in and don’t scale
Legacy systems
Operational costs
Capital costs$$$
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Low-cost commodity components with no solutions value-add
Commodity systems and services
Operational costs
Capital costs$
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The Optimized EnterpriseBreakthrough performance and efficiencyIncreased agility Greater scalability Operational
costsCapital costs$
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Dell’s approach to Converged Infrastructure
Converged Management
Automation +Orchestration +Unified Resource Management =
Cloud Enablement
Combined benefit
• Transform IT from a cost center to a center for innovation
• Increase IT velocity
• Shift budget from maintenance to mission success
• Gain critical data insights faster
• Realize agility via unified IT Service management
Technology enablers - consumable on your terms
Converged Infrastructure
Compute +Capacity +Networking =
Virtualized Resource Pool
• Automate application provisioning • Enable workload mobility• Reduced operational challenges • Rapidly deploy & reclaim
resources • Enable self-service by end users• Enabling chargeback or showback• Capacity on demand
• Simplified platform maintenance, control & administration
• Seamless, modular scalability • Reduced operational expense • Increase utilization &
efficiency• Power & cooling benefits
Unique benefits
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Heterogeneous Infrastructure Resources
VDI UC&C Biz Apps
Active System Manager and 3rd party systems mgmt integration
SolutionTemplates
Virtualized IaaS/Private cloud
Simplified IT services in the Optimized Enterprise
Application & IT Services• Discovery,
deployment andlifecycle management
• Integrated applications and systems management
Converged Infrastructure• Flexible pool of
application resources compute, capacity, and networking
• Intuitive infrastructuremanagement
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Convergence: technology building blocks
Converged Management• Native tools –infrastructure tools,
hypervisor integration, management /instrumentation/monitoring
• Virtualization mgmt - Foglight suite
• Active System Manager – application provisioning, resource management, workload mobility
• Multi-cloud manager
Converged Infrastructure• Dell PowerEdge M1000e - High
Density, flexible IO options, unified management
• Dell PowerEdge VRTX - Convergence for remote,/branch & departmental
• Active Infrastructure for Applications - (SAP HANA, Oracle, HPC, VDI) Fluid Data: Storage
Convergence• Dell EqualLogic - scale-out,
unified, virtualized IP storage, array or blade.
• Dell Compellent - scale-up virtualized FC, FCoE, auto -tiering
Active Fabric: Converged networking• Force10 - (FTOS) software defined
networking; scale-out; non-blocking, non-oversubscribed
• Wireless & branch solutions• Flexible interoperability – MXL, IO Aggregator
Applications
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Dell converged platformsFrom office scale to enterprise scale
PowerEdge M1000e
Data center IT• Solves complex IT needs for
Enterprise data centers
• Wide range of server, storage, IO options
• Mixed/heavy workloads
• High performance & density(up to 32 server bladesper chassis)
Automated & application-centric solutions• Enables dynamic workload
provisioning and automation
• Application specific Converged architectures (Oracle, SAP, HPC)
• Unified management with Active System Manager
• Flexible deployment options
• Private cloud building blocks(high scalability)
Departmental / Branch• Solves basic IT needs for branch,
departments and workgroup
• No expert staff required
• Global management from one console (CMC), onsite or remote
• Clusters & standalone apps(up to 4 server blades)
PowerEdge VRTX
Active Solutions
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Data center consulting expertiseProven to unlock efficiency
Servers, platform consolidation & migration, HPCC
Optimization, performance
tuning, capacity planning
Virtual desktop consulting and hosted VDI as a
service
Capacity, efficiency, reliability optimization, site selection, design
& commissioning, energy management
Strategy, capacity planning & performance
mgmt., data center consolidation &
migration, operations
VDI
Networking
Platform optimization
Data center planning &
management
Facilities efficiency
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Accelerate IT Service Deployment Maximize IT Efficiency Strengthen IT Service Quality
Capture best practices
• Design templates & orchestrations: use out-of-box or create custom templates or; define workload lifecycle
Define
Rapidly deliver high quality workloads
• Deploy workloads: provisioning of infrastructure and workloads through defined templates
Deploy
Active System ManagerUnify environments, leverage existing investments, comprehensive integration
Get up & running quickly
Discover
• Quickly discover: auto-inventory available resources
• Pool resources
Evolve workloads as needs change
• Scale workloads: add or remove resources from workloads
• Manage lifecycle: update or release resources as needed
Maintain
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Key benefits – Active System ManagerAutomationAutomation of key tasks & functions as defined by IT requirements and best practices
CentralizationConsolidation of tools, processes and functions through a single console
Operational savingsReduction in staff time and effort
Capital savingsEfficient utilization and control of server, storage and network resources
AccuracyAccurate and consistent management through process standardization
AdaptabilityFlexibility to scale workloads in a predictable fashion as a response to planned and unplanned events
Active System Manager
Automated service delivery through a unified management platform
Maximize IT efficiency
Efficient
Strengthen IT service quality
High Quality
Accelerate IT service deployment
Agile
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• Converged management platformSingle console view of your environment
• Full Lifecycle Management Physical, virtual, heterogeneous infrastructure
• Accelerated time to valueAutomation of workload & infrastructure mgmt.
• AccurateConsistent outcomes
• AutomationAcross multiple physical and virtual layers
Automated
• Open and extensibleAn architecture that integrates IT, today & tomorrow
• HeterogeneousInvestment protection with multiple vendor infrastructure support
Open
• Intuitive From set-up to management with a simplified UI
• Integrated3rd party tools using APIs
• FlexibleMeet specific environment needs
Easy to Use Comprehensive
Why is this an industry-leading approach?
Active System Manager
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Introducing Active System Manager 7.5A Better Customer ExperienceSimplicity and ease of use
• Enhanced user interface provides an intuitive, end-to-end infrastructure and workload automation experience through a single console
• Streamlined deployment enabling faster time to value
New modular architecture enables flexibility and extensibility• Broader 3rd party hardware support leveraging
Dell IP and open source technologies
• Easily extend the product to meet the needs of specific environments
Automation• Automation of key tasks & functions as defined
by IT requirements and best practices
• Automated workload delivery and management of your converged infrastructure
ASM 7.5enables more
choice and accelerates
convergence for a broader
range of customers
Maximize IT efficiency
Efficiency
Strengthen IT service quality
High Quality
Accelerate IT service deployment
Agility
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Automating workload deployment
Challenge:
• Deployment of applications took too long
• Manual deployment processes were error prone and complex
Results:
• Accelerated deployment of apps & infrastructure with Active System Manager
• Dramatically reduced time spent on routine tasks through automation and standardization
Indianapolis Airport Authority
Owns and operates 6 airports serving7 million passengers per year
Faster results and better staff focus on important tasks
Reduction of staff management time-30%
Less time on staging and rollout
-50%
Less admin staff cost
-20%
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Challenge:• Reduce the time to onboard and
deploy new infrastructure, applications and IT Services
• Reduce risk and maintain governance and control
Results:• Faster provisioning of complex
multi-tier workloads with ASM templates
• Infrastructure on demand with pre-built templates & self-service portal
• Flexibly scale using reference architectures & leverage existing IT
Brodart
Pennsylvania- based library solutions company
Agile & scalable private cloud using pre-built reference architectures
Time to value
6X faster
Management tools
88% fewerTime to deploy virtual infrastructure
99% less
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Virtual desktop rapid deployment
Challenge:• Rapidly enable Client Mobility &
BYOD
• Enhance manageability of virtual infrastructure lifecycle for VDI
• Enable phased VDI rollout pilot to production
Citrix XenDesktop and XenMobile POC for 500 users
Overcoming cloud client computing challenges
Time to administer
~10 minReduction in admin tools
7 to 1
Time to productivity
<1 day
Results:• Turnkey solutions to deploy,
configure & scale virtual infrastructure and VDI
• Template-driven automation captures best practices & accelerates deployments
• End-to-end unified management
Fortune 50 Financial Services Institution
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Convergence without compromise
99% fewerSteps to deploy complex virtual infrastructure
Most recommended
system performance per watt
45% better
2X more
compute nodes per rackconverged infrastructure
for deployment instead of 8
1 console
6X faster
implementation of new virtual infrastructure
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Why partner with Dell?
• Convergence on your terms – no matter your size or scale
• Management choice, simplicity & integration
• Intelligent infrastructure building blocks
• Flexible deployment options• Key innovations that trend with
customers and industry inflection points
• End to end solutions from desktop to datacenter to cloud
Dell Software
• Performance & Availability Management (Quest Foglight)
• Data Protection (Quest vRanger and AppAssure)
• Security & Governance (Quest and SonicWALL)
• Windows Server Management (Quest)
• Plug-ins and connectors (VMware and Microsoft)
Dell Services
• Infrastructure Consulting
• Application modernization
• Deployment• Support services• Cloud services
Dell Infrastructure• Servers• Storage • Networking• Facilities
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Gain hands on experience, see demonstrations in the Solutions Showcase
Let’s get started
Meet with Dell subject matter experts at the Solutions Showcase
Visit http://del.ly/Converged
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