hp storage consulting transformation experience workshop: getting ready for the next storage era

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HP storage transformation experience workshop Getting ready for the next storage era

Matt Lennie & Richard Fermont / June 12, 2013

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My background

Title Storage Consultant & Solutions Architect

IT industry experience • 13 years as storage consultant as both a customer

and a consultant

• Previous to my position in HP I have worked as a consultant for a specialist IT simplification and transformation practice, as well as a number of end clients in the finance, banking, manufacturing and retail industries

Years at HP 1.5

Current responsibilities • Member of the EMEA International Expertise Team

• Storage Transformation Experience Workshop champion

• Technical consultant to HP’s customers, delivering storage assessments

Name

Matt Lennie

E-mail

[email protected]


My background

Title Storage Consultant

IT industry experience • 13 years at EMC as a senior technical project

manager

• 2 years as quality assurance lead

• 15 further years as a technical consultant in Windows, Storage and Networks

Professional information • Prince II Practitioner

• ITIL

Years at HP 1

Current responsibilities • Member of the EMEA International Expertise Team

• Storage Transformation Experience Workshop champion

• Technical consultant to HP’s customers, delivering storage assessments

• Technical Project Manager

Name

Richard Fermont

E-mail

[email protected]


Agenda

• What is it?

• What is the approach?

• What the workshop is not?

• What are the objectives?

• What is next?

• Questions


What is it?


What is the workshop?

Exploration of your data management environment

Half to one day off site event • Interactive roadmap discussion with senior HP

consultants covering transformation phases and activities

• Encompasses a broad spectrum of key stakeholders

• CIOs & senior IT managers

• Infrastructure managers

• Storage managers

• Key business decision makers

• Storage customer representatives

Enjoyable and informative


Setting the scene

Previously. . .

Storage refresh was a data migration exercise

• Business value not measured or analyzed

• Integration gaps

• Impact to service

• Operational benefits not realized

• High risk of project / cost overrun

Migration

Realize

Benefits

Eff

ort


Migration

Realize Benefits

Setting the scene

The way it needs to be. . .

Data management strategy realizes….

• Business benefits

• Improved risk management

• Faster return on investment

• Service improvement

• Lower risk project delivery

Eff

ort

Migration

Realize

Benefits


Why the workshop?

I want to transform.

What are my drivers?

To enable me to transform I need to know: • Where I am coming from?

What my as-is position is?

• Where I am going?

What is my target vision?

• How am I going to get there?

What is my transformation roadmap?

• What are the common roadblocks?

Helping you to understand and avoid transformation pitfalls


Outcome

After participation to the workshop you will be able to: • Realize the benefits, scope, scale and all critical

success factors

• Identify quick wins

• Gain stakeholder buy-in and give traction to any project

• Leverage best practices

• Make informed business strategy decisions

• Lay out your key strategies in a roadmap

• Understand the effort involved in a transformation program


What is the approach?


Content 6 discussion panels • Setting the scene

• Transformation drivers

• Transformation target

• Change considerations

• Operational considerations

• The journey

Break-out wipe boards • Setting the scene

• Mirror

• Vision

• Journey

Roadmap board


How does it work? HP industry experts will guide interactive conversations in key areas: • What is your current state? What are your biggest

challenges?

• How do you measure success?

• What is your future vision? Is infrastructure shared / optimized across projects and business?

• Do you know your infrastructure maturity?

HP will drive a maturity assessment exercise

• What strategies are you implementing and for what parts of the infrastructure?

• How is IT organized? By technology or by service to the business?

• What are the biggest people challenges?

Conversations are reinforced by topic of conversation panels


HP will facilitate free-flowing conversation exploring key points:

How does it work?

• Why: requirements / needs

• Who: questions / decision

• What

– Work-streams

– Issues

– Roadblocks

• When: milestones / event


How does it work?

• Issues, visions and initiatives are collated onto mirror, vision & journey whiteboards

• These are plotted by you onto your transformation roadmap

Initiative A

Initiative B

Initiative C

Initiative D

Initiative E

Initiative F

Initiative G


What the workshop is not


What the workshop is not

Does not cover

• Technology designs

• Specific solutions to specific problems

• Sales pitches

There is no formal presentation of HP products / solutions / services

Death by PowerPoint

No answers are presented – first step of a collaborative process


What are the objectives?



• Identify transformation gaps

• Gain stakeholder buy-in and give traction to any existing data management projects

• Help make informed business strategy decisions

• Understand current situation, future aspirations and to define a roadmap



HP will be your critical eyes • Share your transformation drivers

• Share your transformation vision

• Share you understanding of steps and effort to transform

HP will highlight and explore many transformation tangents • Operational readiness

• Migration capability

• Dependencies

• Acceptance and testing

• Process and governance


What you get out of the workshop


After participation in the workshop the you should: • Know the critical success criteria to enable faster and lower risk transformations

• Have an agreed understanding of:

– Your current state

– Your target vision

– The steps involved to go from current to target

– Gaps in your ability to transform

– Steps not previously considered

– Pragmatic initiatives to reduce risk / cost, etc.

– Additional considerations to improve efficiencies


What’s next?


What happens after the workshop

HP will: • Analyse the information provided • Prepare summary in slides or document • Arrange meeting with key customer

representatives • Perform a review session with the customer • Recommend follow up initiatives if

appropriate


For more information

Attend these sessions

• BB3566 – Ease the pain of storage migration

• BB2768 - Maximizing the

business value of data

deduplication

• TB3374 - Enterprise

Storage: consolidation and

optimization pitfalls

Visit these demos

• DT1368 - HP 3PAR

StoreServ: the leading

storage system for virtual

and cloud data centers

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• Contact us [email protected]

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