SIM Seattle – September 17, 2014John W. Thompson, CEOC r e a t i n g a w o r l d w h e r e a p p l i c a t i o n s a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e p e r f o r m b e t t e r t o g e t h e r !

IT Industry Inflection Points

Mainframe

PC

Asset Management

Client/Server

DistributedSystems Management

Web

Security and Compliance

PerformanceManagement

Cloud

IT Trends Continuing for 2014

Customer Priorities

Security, compliance and privacy

New application paradigm

Cost containment

Complexity

Drivers for Success

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For example…

PERFORMANCE:Continuous measurement of system-wide infrastructure

response time

MANAGEMENT:Advanced correlation, analysis, and visualization for definitive

and actionable insight

INFRASTRUCTURE:The end-to-end compute to storage infrastructure - Virtual Machine to

the Logical Unit of Storage

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The Value of IPM

AVAILABILITY MANAGEMENT

REDUCE OPERATING COST

MOVE FROM REACTIVE TROUBLESHOOTING TO PROACTIVE AVOIDANCE

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

IMPROVE EXISTING PERFORMANCE

IMPLEMENT, MEASURE AND REPORT ON PERFORMANCE BASED SLA’S

AGAINST EXISTING ASSETS

COST OPTIMIZATION

OPTIMIZE FUTURE SPEND

CATEGORIZE APPLICATIONWORKLOAD TO ENSURE

INFRASTRUCTURE ALIGNMENT

Drive the Highest Performance at the Lowest Cost and Risk!

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Current Customer Strategies

• Leading Analysts agree, enterprises are deploying or investigating one or more of the following approaches to accomplish these goals:

CLOUD ENVIRONMENTSCONVERGENCE SOFTWARE-DEFINED

All are dependent on Performance Management

How must I change the IT operating model to ensure agility and avoid unintended consequences?

Questions to Consider

Are there new approaches or alternatives for managing my virtualized/private cloud infrastructure?

What must we do differently (or better) to ensure optimal performance and availability in the cloud?

Are there options for more effective resource deployment to improve both cost and value?

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Q & A