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DeVere check into a fully managed cloud

with ANS and NetApp FlexPodLaurence James

UKI Product, Alliances and Solutions Manager

Andy Barrow

Technology Director – ANS Group

PCS-2001

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DeVere check into a fully

managed cloud with ANS

and NetApp FlexPod

Laurence JamesUKI Product, Alliances and Solutions Manager

Andy BarrowTechnology Director – ANS Group

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Economics

Technology and innovation that helps customers

go further, faster

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Is Today´s IT Infrastructure Good Enough?

Data Growth Impact on Business

Information Becomes

a Propellant to Business

Data Becomesa Burden to IT

Infrastructure B u s i n e s s V e l o c i t y

2010 2020

Inflection

Point

Where Is My In

Number of

Apps

Percentage of

Unstructured D

Number of

Objects

Measured Perfvs SLA’s

Measured Capand Growth Rate

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CLASSIFIED: INTERNAL

De Vere Check In to a Fully

Managed Cloud with ANS andNetApp FlexPod

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Andy BarrowTechnical Director ANS Group

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Welcome to ANS Group

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De Vere & ANS Group

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About De Vere Group

Portfolio spans 62 properties across the UK: You are never far fro

the De Vere experience!

De Vere are one of the UK’s leading independent hospitality group

Every year, De Vere host over two million leading professionals, h

of thousands of leisure guests and many of the world’s major bra

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Infrastructure Challenges

‘Due to the highly competitive industry; IT is integral to every customer touch-p

of the customer journey - a lack of confidence in the availability of systems wou

impact reputation and clients’ decisions to invest’

No ‘Uniform Scale’

Complex architecture only

Productivity/efficiency ch

Much Hardware & Software out of support

a complex and fragmented nature

Islands of technology: Implemented in

18 racks of ‘legacy’ hardware

Unpredictable & spiralling support costs

Storage capacity at maxim

meant to be temporary

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Uniform ScaleWhy it’s a Key Driver for Cloud

Full technology sh

Services protocol

Addition of second

‘Stand Up Infrastructure Cost Training

Professional Services Staff Resource

Blades/Servers

Network Ports

Storage Media

Cables

Transceivers

Management

No Concept of ‘Uniform Scale’

Within the component technology a

Creates Cost Prohibitive ‘Break Poin(Further Challenged by higher densisuch as VDI)

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Options to ‘De Vere’

Bolt on Aftermarket

Extensions

Marginal gain (if any)Increased Management

and Cost

Refresh InfrastructureSame Service

Same ChallengesMaybe Different Badge

Move to Clou

Defined Serv

Validated InReduce Cost

Improvemen

Delivered vi

models

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Why Cloud?

De Vere is all about hospitality - Not operating IT

Cloud ‘fit for our purpose’

24/7/365

Full access to technical resource - ability to

implement new technologies and innovative new

business solutions without having to invest in

internal skills/development/infrastructure

Cost effectiveService Definitions & SLAs

Ultimately ‘Peace of Mind’

‘De Vere require

IT team focused odelivering a grea

customer experie

by being experts

best of breed hos

solutions – Not ke

Infrastructure lig

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Why Flexpod as a Cloud Infrastructure?

Designed around Performance, Efficiency and Scale

Wire Once (DCB) – Next Generation Ethernet (reduced I/O cost)

Automation and Orchestration Ready

Stateless Provisioning – Infrastructure Re-Purpose

Scale out Architecture (UCS/C-Mode)

Multi-Layer Virtualization (From Hypervisor to Storage)

Vendor Validated and Proven Cloud Design

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A Single Design - Scale At Multiple Layers

Virtual

Machines &

Compute

Storage

Networking

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What Delivery Model?

De Vere had the following options:

Where is it?

How is it paid for?

What tenant model?

Pr

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Undertook RFP

Core criteria being to combine twodata centers into one VDC

Designed a Private CLOUD to deliver a flexible platf

support & maintain current business & future strate

Proven Track Record of Delivering Private Cloud (Re

Mitigated all risk

Capabilities around management and support

Solution fit for ‘our’ purpose

Why ANS Group?

‘ANS with Flexpod

delivered the rightsolution, with the

right people at the

right price’

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Put the De Vere as a

Business where it needed to beAllows full focus from

IT on hospitality

Applications – How can IT reach more

people in and out of the business?

Significant Performance Increase

Both User and Customer

Business Agility:

Quicker Response to Change

‘Flex Up/Flex Down’ –

Same day provisioning of services

Cost Benefits & Business Case

Decreased Ongoing Expenditu

Remove the risks associated wpeople dependencies

Access to the large technica

at third party mitigates the

associated with losing key

technical personnel

Enhanced CSR with

significantly reduced

carbon footprint

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Questions?

Cisco ®

UCS B-Series Blade

Servers and UCS

Manager

Cisco Nexus ®

Family Switches

NetApp FASClustered

DataONTAP

For more information: NetApp www.netapp.com/flexpod/ The ANS Group: http://www.ansgroup.

http://www.netapp.com/flexpod/

http://www.ansgroup.co.uk/case-studies/property-construction/steve-howells-chief-information-officer-nov04



http://www.netapp.com/flexpod/

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Join us at the NetApp stand D1

for further Q&A

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