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Server Virtualization and Beyond Insights from the IBM Global Data Center Study to

help improve operational efficiency

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Matthew Eastwood

Group Vice President and General Manager

Enterprise Platforms

IDC

Shaown Nandi

Senior Manager, IBM Server and Middleware Services

IBM Global Technology Services

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Matthew Eastwood, IDC Enterprise Platforms Group Vice President and General Manager

Shaown Nandi, Senior Manager, IBM Server and Middleware Services, IBM Global Technology Services

Server Virtualization and Beyond Insights from the IBM Global Data Center Study to help improve operational efficiency

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We commissioned a data center study of 308 clients to determine the current operational efficiency of data centers around the world.

IBM Global Data Center Study

Broad survey covering server, storage, network data center facility and data center operations

Detailed execution questions going deep into availability, cost efficiencies and governance

Source: IBM Global Data Center Study (2012 April)

One-in-five, or 21%, of clients have highly efficient data centers; allocating 50% more of

their IT budget to new projects.

How much of your IT budget is spent on:

35%

65%

Basic

data

centers

Strategic

data

centers

New projects Maintaining

existing

infrastructure

47%

53%

Optimize the IT and facilities assets to maximize

capacity and availability

Design for flexibility to support changing business

needs

Use automation tools to improve service levels

and availability

Have a plan that aligns with the business goals

and keep it current

Most efficient data centers

© 2012 IBM Corporation 6

The data center study highlights three critical server implications for highly efficient data centers.

Virtualization and

Standardization

Leaders have accelerated virtualization and

standardization to improve operational efficiency.

Automation Leaders use automation and self-service portal to

manage availability and speed of providing services.

Have a plan and

keep it current Leaders are faster to adopt the latest technology and

have a backup plan in the event of disaster.


Poll Question #1

What percent of virtualization have you achieved for your servers

A. > 60%

B. 40% - 60%

C. 20% - 40%

D. 10% - 20%

E. < 10%


Leaders have accelerated virtualization and standardization to improve operational efficiency.

Virtualization and

standardization

Virtualization and standardization

Leaders have 2.5 times more servers managed per administrator (27 to 10)

Leaders have higher virtual machine (VM) densities of 8.2 versus 4.5 VMs per server

48%

27% 31%

21%

65%

85%

46%

82%

Percent of servers virtualized

Planned growth rate in server virtualization in the next year (mean

response)

Standardized on hardware platform

Standardized on operating system and middleware

Basic

Strategic



We offer a three-phased approach to virtualize your servers, leveraging repeatable processes and time-tested methodologies.

Virtualization and

standardization

Solution framing

Discover, model

and assess to meet

current and future

business and IT

requirements

Plan and design

Design a more

flexible

infrastructure that

can respond to fast-

changing demands

Implementation

Pilot, test, deploy

and migrate the

new server

infrastructure with

reduced disruption


We modeled simple to complex workloads with advanced analytics to increase average utilization by four times.2

Virtualization and

standardization

Challenge

5-10% increase in annual operating expenses

Limited skills to manage heterogeneous

servers

Simple virtualization done—little experience to

virtualize more complex workloads

Benefits

Increased server utilization by 4 times2 by

modeling workload with CiRBA1 analytics

Reduced server count by 5 times2 by

accelerating virtualization adoption across

simple to complex workloads

Projected savings of US$4 million for new

projects in the first year3

After (average utilization rate: 40%)

Before (average utilization rate: 10%)

Central processing unit (CPU) utilization

Comparison of before and after consolidation

(Illustrative) (%)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Time of day

Su

sta

ine

d C

PU

Uti

liza

tio

n

(Vir

tualiza

tio

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Before consolidation After consolidation

1CiRBA Data Center Intelligence (DCI) is an analytics software by CiRBA Inc. This software determines the optimal workload placements and resource and capacity allocations required

to safely maximize the efficiency of physical, cloud and virtual infrastructure; 2547 UNIX servers consolidated to 97 IBM System p® servers; 3 Based on IBM analysis and calculations;

individual client results may vary.


Poll Question #2

How many different platforms (Hardware, Hypervisor, Vendor) do you use in your Data Center today?

A) 1-2

B) 3-5

C) 5-10

D) Over 10


Our fit-for-purpose analytics helped a leading financial company simplify and standardize its heterogeneous server infrastructure.

Virtualization and

standardization

Challenge

Lack of standardization, with over 200

operating system variations

Greater effort to manage over 130 types

of servers and 12 platforms

Increasing operational costs

Benefits

66% fewer platforms (from 12 to 4)

90% fewer servers (from 813 to 81)

45% reduction in operating

expenses (US$10M to US$5M)

Fit-for-purpose analytics* Workload placement – Oracle

Platform

1

Platform

2

Platform

12

Workload

attributes IBM AIX®

on Power®

VMware

Windows

on x86 …

Microsoft

Windows

on x86

ISV1 support 31 18 20

Performance 40 17 21

Scalability 38 15 18

SW2 licenses 39 20 13

Energy consumption

31 19 9

Overall score 247 170 … 138

Five-year TCO3 US$13M US$31M US$38M

Five-year savings

US$25M US$7 US$0

Recommend Invest Divest … Divest

…

…

…

…

*Fit-for-purpose analytics is IBM’s patent-pending objective analysis tool designed

to identify the best-fit platform (hardware and operating system) for selected

workloads by modeling business and technical requirements.

1Independent software vendor (ISV); 2Software (SW); 3Total cost of ownership (TCO)


Leaders use automation and self-service portal to manage availability and speed of providing services.

Automation

Automation

Over 30% of leaders have implemented self-service portals to provision virtual machines, with 80% of leaders planning them by 2013 to support cloud computing.

1%

Move virtual machines (VMs) across servers

Move VMs based on service level agreements

Self-service provisioning portal

Basic

Strategic

81%

26%

58%

32%

4%



IBM provides knowledge and best practices to better manage virtual infrastructure using advanced analytics.

Automation

Challenge

Struggle to manage complex virtualized

infrastructure and meet service level

agreements (SLA) targets

High operational cost

Define standards-based policies to model IT

and user requirements

Benefits

Provides immediate and actionable

recommendations for optimizing

virtual infrastructure

Reduces virtual machine sprawl significantly

Reduces under- and over-provisioning

of virtualized servers

Define workload policies and best practices

Advanced workload analysis

Real-time monitoring console

Visualize workload

performance

Get control with

prescription actions

Automate

Discover

Assess

Model

1Based on previous select IBM client engagements; individual client results vary.


IBM can create a self-service portal that helps enable greater flexibility and responsiveness to your business needs.

Automation

Challenge

Complexity of managing a dynamic

virtualized infrastructure resulting in

increased operational cost

Slow response to fast-changing

business needs

Benefits

Enabled a self-service delivery model that

streamlined IT systems management

Reduced provisioning time from days to

hours1 with automated provisioning and

configuration

Improved human and technology

resource productivity

Helped reduce IT operational cost

Provisioning Automate provisioning

of resources

Metering and rating Track usage of resources

Workflow Manage the process

for approval of usage

1 Based on a select IBM client engagement; Individual results will vary

View an IBM Video about automating processes with IBM virtualization.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRxXtjs1seM&feature=player_embedded


Leaders are faster to adopt the latest technology and have a backup plan in the event of disaster.

Have a plan

Backup plan Fast to adopt new technology

Leaders value faster migration of workloads to new technology and integration into existing service management processes.

86%

First and fast technology adoption

Plan to implement

converged

infrastructure

Refresh technology within 12-23 months

DC have a backup or

secondary site for

disaster

Basic

Strategic

43%

62%

27%

75%

9%

100%

57%



We can help you enable virtualization and cloud leveraging the latest technology with integrated systems for faster ROI1.

Have a plan

Expert integrated systems:

Systems with integrated expertise

that combine the flexibility of a general

purpose system, the elasticity of cloud

and the simplicity of an appliance

Potential benefits

Optimize new technology features and

performance with expert implementation

Accelerate time to value and reduce

downtime during the transition with

repeatable methodology

Reduce transition cost by knowledge

transfer for tools

Implementation System configuration of server, storage,

networking Configure system management software,

Flexible System Manager (FSM) Knowledge transfer

Virtualization enablement Provision of virtual servers Configure vCenter Populate virtual appliances Deploy virtual workloads Knowledge transfer

IBM SmartCloud Entry enablement Configure self-service portal for workload

provisioning Deploy virtualized image management Set up metering tools for resource usage

monitoring Knowledge transfer

1Return on investment (ROI)


IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery helps ensure more reliable and efficient recovery of your virtualized application.

Have a plan

This service can help you:

Reduce the risk of failure to

recover and avoid the need for

travel through remote access

self-management tools

IBM SmartCloud

Archive

Enable more predictable

costs through a fully

managed subscription

service model

Achieve shorter

recovery time and

point objectives

Dedicated Shared Virtualized

Potential benefits:

Easier to recover to unlike hardware with reliability

Shortens recovery time objective (RTO) and

recovery point objective (RPO)

Avoids need to travel to recovery site

Provides virtual machines for server failover


IBM can help you in these three critical areas:

Virtualization and

Standardization

We can help you virtualize and manage your complex

workloads with improved cost savings by leveraging our

advanced analytics and automation capabilities.

Our server virtualization and cloud computing solutions help

you free-up under-utilized capacity.

Automation

We create self-service portals through automated provisioning for faster access to server resources.

We can integrate capacity management tools to help maintain higher levels of optimization and reduce virtual machine sprawl.

We can help create a business-oriented, storage infrastructure with standardized processes and automated data movement to enhance operational efficiency and reduce risk.

Have a plan and

keep it current

We can help you to accelerate adopting new technology and

provide you a cloud-based recovery solution.

Avoid the need for travel with remote access, self-

management tools


…or we can work with you to build a detailed business case to show potential cost savings to justify your investment

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

Current Proposed

Cost (US M$)

One Time Cost System Management Hardware Maintenance Facility Power & Cooling

ANCHOR financial analysis (sample)

Cumulative estimated cost savings over five years

43 percent reduction

US$37M

US$21M

IBM’s ANCHOR financial analysis tool is used to model investment scenarios to find the optimum approach to help meet your financial, business and technical requirements.


… and determine the next steps to transform your infrastructure.

Tell us about your business and IT objectives and

together we can determine the best approach to

transform your infrastructure

Have us perform a quick return-on-investment analysis for a segment of

your infrastructure to present to you potential cost savings

Assemble information from your experts to help define the

scope of the project

Document the inventory of assets for consolidation and virtualization

Define the critical application availability requirements and

dependencies

Perform a short-term virtualization efficiency

study to determine the health and performance

of your current virtualized infrastructure


IT executives realize they need to use outside tools, technologies and assistance.

77%

of IT managers planning

transformational projects will turn to

outside help

Register for the data center study paper

ibm.com/data-center/study


http://www.ibm.com/data-center/study




IBM solutions can help you achieve your IT infrastructure and business goals.

Expertise gained from managing more than 200,000 servers for companies worldwide

More than 8,000 infrastructure professionals from all aspects of IT management

IBM’s server leadership - Multiple platforms and operating systems

IBM’s extensive experience in IT project management in heterogeneous environments

We can help you consolidate from mixed platforms to IBM hardware

Ability to provide remotely delivered services and related cost savings

Many infrastructure service activities can be provided remotely through IBM’s global resources,

helping reduce costs and speed deployment

More than 50 years of business continuity and disaster recovery experience, with over 9,000 disaster

recovery clients

IBM’s cloud leadership

– 19 million public cloud users

– More than US $1 billion in planned cloud data center investments

Thank you

Questions? Please submit your questions now

Matthew Eastwood

Group Vice President and General Manager

Enterprise Platforms

IDC

Shaown Nandi

Senior Manager, IBM Server and Middleware Services

IBM Global Technology Services

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