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• #4: The facts here are startling – inefficiency is prolific – clearly, progress is needed: - In distributed computing environments, up to 85% of computing capacity sits idle. Consumer product and retail industries lose about $40 billion annually, or 3.5 percent of their sales, due to supply chain inefficiencies. 70% on average is spent on maintaining current IT infrastructures versus adding new capabilities. Explosion of information: 54% growth in storage shipments every year 33% of consumers notified of a security breach will terminate their relationship with the company they perceive as responsible. Transition Line: Clearly this kind of inefficiency can’t continue
• #5: Many aspects of modern business have been industrialized to gain efficiencies and bring better more affordable products and services to the end customer. Local calls were made through human “Operators” well into the 1950’s. In many parts of the country you could only make long distance calls through an Operator well into the 1970’s. Automation was required in order to be able to keep up with increasing call volumes. The standardization of the Ford assembly line was later improved with the Toyota Production System and the implementation of new technologies, e.g. robotics. To be able to deliver the service provided by ATMs, tremendous breakthroughs in standardization were required – to enable you to conduct transactions from any machine, without regard to whether you have an account with the owner of the machine. Each industry drove advances in technology based systems and standardization to deliver the services customers required. Transition line: The same needs to happen with highly manual and repetitive processes in the datacenter..
• #6: Today’s data center typically has many siloed processes and very little automation to aid the IT worker. Many task require highly skilled workers to collect siloed data and put the pieces together in order to do their job. Deploying new services can require integrating hardware and software, collecting system performance data, configuration data, manual approval process and understanding complex product install procedures. This can result in very slow deliver of service to customers. With an industrialized data center based on a service management system and leading edge hardware, silos are integrated and information is made available in an easy to consume format across systems. Clients can request the services they need through an self service portal that drives automated processes which greatly reduce the time required to make services available. Automation is used extensively so that highly skilled workers can be leveraged across many tasks to drive down labor costs and drive up productivity. Transition line: How can you start to deliver services using this industrialized approach without the headaches of integration?
• #10: The proliferation of sensors, digital communications and other forms of digital data collection, along with advances in the storage and management of such data has led to a projected tenfold growth in digital data between 2007 and 2011. All of this data has the potential to provide enterprise with valuable insights for running their businesses more effectively and efficiently. Now, businesses analysts need to adapt from an environment in which the challenge was in gaining insights from limited data to one in which the challenge is in managing and extracting useful information from massive data sets. As one can imagine, finding the relevant data, and quickly, amid the 'mountain' of available data can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Moreover, of the growth in digital data, approximately 80% of it is expected to comprise semi-structured and unstructured data (i.e., email, blogs, medical images, videos, audio files, pictures). With unstructured data, considerable effort is required to 'understand' the data, even before any further analysis can be performed to intelligently influence decision making. Semantics The number of semantically tagged documents and data sets is growing, as a result of five developments: “ Linked Data” guidelines, published in 2006, make it easier to share data on the web. The graph in the upper left represents the output of the Linking Open Data community project, which has the goal of making large numbers of open data sets more available by complying with the Linked Data guidelines. RDF (Resource Description Framework) triples are a key component of the Linked Data guidelines. Technologies to convert many legacy sources, especially of relational data, into RDF triples, became available as open source in 2006 (and IBM Research has improved versions of these) Technologies are appearing that can automatically find associations between subjects and objects from one “data graph” with subjects and objects in other “data graphs” Several important reference information suppliers, most notably Thomson Reuters, entered into this space (through their OpenCalais effort). Several efforts have developed technology to mine the essential information about people, places, materials, governments, businesses, works of literature and so on from Wikipedia, into a semantically tagged form (notably DBPedia and Freebase), so that as Wikipedia extends to cover more of the worlds knowledge, more of that becomes part of the Web of semantic data. Net: Both the number of facts, and the rich interconnecting of different classes of facts, have been growing at an accelerating rate. Example Use: In BlueJ! grand challenge, linked data (DBpedia, IMDb, Freebase etc) is used as important structured information source to improve the accuracy of question answering in additional to unstructured information. Acronyms: RDF – Resource Description Framework (W3C Standard) FOAF – Friend of a Friend – the RDF application for describing people and other people they know DBLP – Digital Bibliography and Library Project – bibliographic information on more than 1 million computer science research publications SIOC – Semantically Interlinked Online Communities DOAP – Description of a Project; DOAPSpace – a repository of open source projects RIESE - R DFizing and I nterlinking the E uro S tat Data Set E ffort OpenGuides – Information about leading cities of the world, the kind of information that would appear in a guidebook, produced by the community through a public Wiki. Jamendo – an online music community, including a large quantity of music licensed under various Creative Commons license terms. www.garlik.com – an online identity monitoring service Sindice.com – web service providing a directory/index of all Linked Open Data and Microformat data on the Web
• #12: Seller Opportunity We are announcing a family of business-ready, workload-specific IBM CloudBurst offerings that handle the volatile changes in the workload compute environment. Each offering provides the data center capabilities required for a dynamic infrastructure. Self-contained : Software, Hardware, Storage, Networking, Management packaged in one box Modular/Plug and Play: Incrementally, automatically expandable and scalable Self-service : Zero touch administration “Lights-out” automated operation Capacity Planning : Industry first cloud capacity planning End-to-end virtualization across server, network, and storage Manages multi-tenant environments IBM CloudBurst is a prepackaged and self-contained service delivery platform that can be easily and quickly implemented in a data center environment. It allows the data center to accelerate the creation of service platforms for a wide spectrum of workload types with a high degree of integration, flexibility, and resource optimization, providing an enhanced request-driven user experience, while aiding efforts to drive down costs and accelerating time to market for the business. IBM CloudBurst includes the GTS implementation service so that it is a complete package of hardware, software, and the services to make it operational right away in your environment. With this first-of-a-kind offering, organizations can pilot and prove a cloud computing model, with the possibility of expansion. Built upon the IBM BladeCenter platform, IBM CloudBurst provides preinstalled capabilities essential to a cloud model, including: o A self-service portal interface for reservation of compute, storage, and networking resources, including virtualized resources o Automated provisioning and de-provisioning of resources o Prepackaged automation templates and workflows for most common re- source types, such as VMWare virtual machines o Service management for cloud computing o Real-time monitoring for elasticity o Energy management o Backup and recovery o Fully integrated hardware and software platform networking and stor- age for faster roll-out IBM CloudBurst is positioned for enterprise customers wanting to get started with a private cloud computing model. IBM CloudBurst enables you to rapidly implement a complete cloud environment consisting of the cloud management infrastructure, including the cloud resources to be provisioned. It can have a very quick payback to the business, which would be ideal in this challenging economic environment. Many customers want a complete solution of hardware, software, and services to complement their existing IT infrastructure. IBM CloudBurst is an important component of the IBM's Smart Planet initiative and is a new Cloud Implemented offering as described in the IBM Cloud strategy referred to in the recent IBM Dynamic Infrastructure launch in April 2009. Leveraging IBM CloudBurst, organizations can move towards a more dynamic infrastructure.
• #13: This chart summarizes the key features delivered with IBM CloudBurst, the following set of charts will describe these features in more detail. IBM CloudBurst includes everything from a Self-service portal that allows end users to request their own services and improve service delivery, automation to provision the services and virtualization to make system resource available for the new services thus reducing costs significantly. This is all delivered through the integrated pre-packaged IBM CloudBurst offering which includes implementation services and a single support interface to make it easy. Transition line: Let’s look in more detail at the first feature, the self-service portal.
• #14: IBM CloudBurst is focused on making things easy for the customer. IBM puts it all together and delivers to you a pre-integrated hardware and software offering in a single box, for a single price with a single support number. You don’t have to worry about what software components to order, making sure the components all work together and support the hardware… IBM handles that all for you. In addition, services are provided to get it up and running quickly. Transition line: Let’s look at the services that are provided as part of the product.
• #15: IBM CloudBurst includes the Global Technology Services QuickStart service for rapid implementation of the hardware and software required to get a private cloud environment up and running in days. These CloudBurst QuickStart services provide install, configuration and knowledge transfer so that the platform can provide a cloud environment with cloud management infrastructure, including request-driven delivery of cloud resources: compute, network, application and storage, to your users. The IBM Cloudburst QuickStart services consist of the following major activities: - Unpack and power on equipment - Install and configure compute resources, virtualization management, network, storage and directory services - Install and configure software - Platform testing - Customer education and training Transition line: Additionally, IBM Smart Business Test Cloud services has been enhanced to support IBM CloudBurst.
• #16: IBM’s direction is deliver additional pre-packaged pre-integrated workloads on fit for purpose hardware. With IBM CloudBurst you won’t be limited to just x86 support, but will able to take advantage of a broad range platforms that best meet your needs. The roadmap show the general direction on delivery of additional hardware platforms such as Power systems and System z, additional virtualization support like KVM and zVM and additional management capabilities like metering and accounting and capacity planning. There will also be integration with other related offerings to deliver even higher levels of value. Transition line: So now let’s look at how you can get started…
• #19: Financing can expand a client’s purchasing power and allow them to purchase a complete solution that includes a full complement of IBM products and services, let’s take a look at the following figures…Financing can take a large upfront purchase of more than $207,387 and turn it into a more manageable single invoice of $5,750 a month over a period of 36 months. Transition line: Let’s take a look at the overall architecture for the IBM CloudBurst product family and the roadmap.