hyperconvergence... and the public sector

Don Frame Gina Hefner

Don Frame and Gina Hefner

July 28, 2016

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Don Frame Gina Hefner

Hyperconvergence: Reducing Costs and Complexity in the Data Center

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Hyperconverged and software-defined technologies help IT address the challenges while empowering businesses to take advantage of the opportunities.

IT Business Challenges IT Business OpportunitiesRapidly Provision New Services

Better Manage Risk

Provide Predictable IT Costs

Legacy Systems Inflexible and Complex

Siloed Systems Hard to Protect and Manage

Pressing Need to Reduce Cost

IT is required to find new ways to rapidly deliver applications and services that elevate IT to focus on the business.


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Infrastructure Evolution

• Easy to acquire• Faster deployment • Easy to acquire

• IT agility• Faster deployment • Easy to acquire

• Lowest cost• IT agility• Faster deployment • Easy to acquire

TraditionalInfrastructure(since 1995)

ConvergedInfrastructure(since 2010)

HyperconvergedInfrastructure(since 2014)

Software-definedInfrastructure(evolving)

Inflection point:Server virtualization becomes mainstream

Inflection point:Storage virtualization adoption accelerates

Inflection point:Network virtualization adoption accelerates

Market inflection point

that drives a technology

evolution

As IT departments look for lower costs, IT agility, and faster deployments of capability, they will transform their infrastructure from traditional to converged to hyperconverged and beyond.

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What Is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure?

HYPERCONVERGED

Hyperconverged infrastructure tightly integrates compute, storage, and virtualization into a single data center appliance. The end result is dynamic capacity that helps you meet diverse needs with unified simplicity,

reducing the cost of building and supporting next-generation IT.


Why Public Sector Organizations Need A Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Faster to deploy

Higher performance

Easier to scale

Stronger data protection

Higher availability

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How Does the Public Sector Benefit?


More predictable

Worry-free transitions

Ideal match

Minimize IT operational workload

Rock-solid availability

Reduced capex and opex


Hyperconverged Key Workloads

IT infrastructureVDICloudVirtualized data centerVideo surveillance

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Big data2Database3Collaboration4

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What Is a Software-defined Infrastructure?

Basic capacity:

• Server• Storage• Compute

What are the benefits?

• Flexibility• Simplicity• Cost-effective scaling • Easier automation• Reduced need for specialized IT skill sets

SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER

Software-defined server

Software-defined compute

Software-defined storage

Software-defined security

Software-defined

automation

Software-defined

monitoring

SOFTWARE-DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE



What Is an Appliance-centric Infrastructure?

• Single-vendor solution

• Single pane management across SW and HW

• Software already loaded and tested

• Turnkey installation

• Easy scalability

• Includes integrated services like data deduplication and protection

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Five Myths About Hyperconvergence


Hyperconvergence drops long-term IT costs dramatically, reducing everything from power bills to support costs.

Hyperconvergence will dramatically drive up IT costs1

Even with hyperconvergence deployed, SAN still has a critical role in your evolving data center.Hyperconvergence means the end of SAN 2

Hyperconvergence delivers a unified data center platform that makes it easier to manage information governance.

Hyperconvergence will create additional IT silos inside my data center3

Hyperconvergence is the right choice for lots of high-capacity compute program needs.Hyperconvergence is only best for VDI4

You can still build the data center solutions that fit your specific needs.

Hyperconvergence will lock you into a particular vendor 5

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Lenovo Solutions for Hyperconvergence

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Lenovo System x3650 M5 Rack-mount Servers Powered by DataCore Software

These systems offer the following advantages: • Applications run faster and uninterrupted• Pool online storage and protect data• Centralize and automate storage management

The net result is better performance and availability for databases, VDI, and other virtualized applications.


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SimpliVity OmniStack with Lenovo System x3650 M5 Rack-mount Servers

Combines eight to 12 core data center functions such as:

• Replication• Cloud gateway• Caching• WAN optimization• Real-time deduplication

• Hypervisor• Compute• Storage• Network switching• Backup


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Lenovo System x3250 M5 with StorMagic SvSAN

Benefits:• Enhanced performance• Affordable price point and TCO• Suitable for SME and ROBO with larger

application requirements• Compact 1U servers• Groundbreaking storage density• IMM2 management with FoD

The StorMagic SvSAN solution leverages powerful Lenovo System x and ThinkServer® servers for optimal reliability, scalability, and performance


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#1 Hyperconvergence – 52% market share1

Leader in Integrated Systems – Gartner MQ2

Only hyperconverged solution supporting all major hypervisors

#1 in x86 reliability4

#1 customer satisfaction5

Most #1 world-record benchmarks onperformance systems5

1. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperconverged Systems 2014 Vendor Assessment

2. Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems

3. ITIC 2015-2016 Global Server Hardware, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/itic_2015_reliability_wp.pdf

4. TBR Customer Satisfaction Survey, Aug 2015, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/tbr_x86servers_top_csat_2q15_wp.pdf

5. Intel world records as of Oct 29, http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeon-e7-v3/xeon-e7-v3-world-record.html© 2016 Lenovo. All rights reserved.

History of Innovation and Customer Focus

http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/itic_2015_reliability_wp.pdf

http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/tbr_x86servers_top_csat_2q15_wp.pdf

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeon-e7-v3/xeon-e7-v3-world-record.html

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Lenovo Converged HX Series for Appliance-centric Hyperconvergence

• Lenovo HX3000 Series– Designed for compute-heavy workloads, this

solution is ideal for VDI, web server, light databases, and smaller virtualization workloads.

• Lenovo HX5000 Series– Designed for storage-heavy workloads, this

solution can help with workloads that have large capacity needs, file servers, backup, Hadoop, and disaster recovery deployments (DR).

• Lenovo HX7000 Series– Designed for high performance, this solution can

provide significant benefits for larger databases, MS SQL, Exchange, Oracle, and other I/O-intensive workloads.


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Simplifies Hardware Systems Management


Lenovo XClarity Administrator

NETWORK-BASED AUTO-DISCOVERY OF NEW SYSTEMS

REAL-TIME MONITORING, FAULT DETECTION, ALERT HANDLING

POLICY-BASED FIRMWARE LEVEL COMPLIANCE

SERVER CONFIGURATION PATTERNS

OS AND HYPERVISOR INSTALLATION TO BARE

METAL SERVER

• VIRTUAL APPLIANCE• WEB-BASED GRAPHICAL USER

INTERFACE• REST APIs• POWERSHELL

Pool of Managed Lenovo Hardware Systems


Why Lenovo?

• High performance with Intel® Xeon® processors

• Best-of-breed interoperability

• The compute, storage, networking, solutions, and services capabilities that meet the diverse needs of data centers and mobile devices

• Most rigorous security process in the industry with end-to-end control over our global supply chain

• Lenovo ranked #1 in reliability with the lowest downtime of any x86 servers in the industry

• Lenovo ranked #1 in customer satisfaction

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Greater choice of hyperconverged platforms and business partners

Confidence in deploying on world-class hardware from a leading vendor

Dramatic reduction in cost and complexity of data centers

Global infrastructure with domestic support

How Organizations Benefit


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