From virtualisation to private and public clouds

UK Tech Touchstone Event - Nov. 30th - Dec. 1st 2009

Neil Sanderson, Virtualisation Product Manager, Microsoft UK

neilsand@microsoft.com

1st wave of virtualisation

• New efficiencies in IT

•Cost savings in power, cooling, space

•CO2 emissions and kit disposal reduction

•Low cost high availability and DR

• Increase flexibility

•Speed deployment of servers, apps

•Scale capacity to meet business needs

PRESENTATION VIRTUALISATION

APPLICATION VIRTUALISATION

SERVER VIRTUALISATION

DESKTOP VIRTUALISATION

VDI

VIRTUAL WINDOWS

XP

High-Value

Workloads

Core

Workloads

Data derived from Microsoft “Spotlight on Cost” Server Study 2009

Reduce cost per server

by over 63%

Reduce cost per server

by over 90%

Manage 170% more

servers per FTE

40% less cost

per user per year

Reduce cost

per user by 93%

Reduce cost per user

by over 80%

www.spotlightoncost.com

Delivers benefit to high-value and

commodity workloads alike

Goals for next wave of virtualization

Cost

– ROI – which workloads, server or desktop

– Driving down management costs

Flexibility

– Optimise across diverse environments

– Service and application focus

Futures

Private cloud, public cloud

Move beyond HW

abstraction by separating

server applications from

OS Infrastructure.

Logical pooling of

all fabric resources

Dynamically scale and

provision capacity

Manage (deploy, patch

etc.) in context of service

Deep understanding

of service dependencies

and needs

Elastic applications to

deliver scale up and

scale down

Establish Private and

Public Clouds

Federate Services

& Management

Enable Solutions That

Exploit Capabilities

Across Clouds

Datacenter Service Based Management

Neil Sanderson

Virtualisation Product Manager Microsoft UK

neilsand@microsoft.com