Why the Cloud?
- 1. Cloud Trends in the IBM World ? ? ? ? ?? ? ??? ?? ? ? ? Why the Cloud?
- 2. Fast Facts Trends and Growth of Cloud Solutions The Realities Infrastructure Overview
- 3. Headquarters: Melville, NY IBM MSP Partner IaaS, PaaS & SaaS National Network of Data Centers 20+ Years IBM Power Experience COMPANY: FAST FACTS Combined Clients: 700+ active customers 3-yr Customer Retention Rate: 90% + Primary Industries: Financial, Distribution, Education, Government, Business, Healthcare and Manufacturing National Network of Reseller Partners CUSTOMERS: SAMPLE CLIENTELE:
- 4. Types of IAAS Workloads Production High Availability DRaasSAN Based ReplicationTest Dev Production High Availability DRaasSAN Based ReplicationTest Dev
- 5. Fast Facts Trends and Growth of Cloud Solutions The Realities Infrastructure Overview
- 6. Today’s Business Environment Companies are looking for: Hard dollar savings (no soft costs) 12 month ROI Avoid technology refresh Companies that are publicly traded are interested in: Pushing expenses to the next quarter/year Meeting Wall Street’s expectations Financing (to keep cash on hand) Links: Trends by Industry
- 7. The Industry Outlook IDC Forecasts Public IT Cloud Services Spending Will Reach $127 billion in 2018 as the Market Enters a Critical Innovation Stage "Over the next three to four years, IDC expects the community of developers to triple and to create a ten-fold increase in the number of new cloud-based solutions. Many of these solutions will become more strategic than traditional IT has ever been.” - Frank Gens, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst at IDC. “As the number of applications and use cases explode, cloud services will reach into almost every B2B and consumer services marketplace.” - IDC
- 8. • Highly standardized infrastructure • Virtualization • Dynamic resource scaling • Higher availability of systems and applications • Lower total costs and better utilization of hardware • Improved quality of IT services • Secure start behind enterprise firewall Many Clients Start the Cloud Journey with a Hybrid Cloud Clients are looking for benefits from Hybrid clouds And are preparing infrastructure to build the foundation Half of leading cloud adopters are planning to include multiple systems in their cloud infrastructures
- 9. Fast Facts Trends and Growth of Cloud Solutions The Realities Infrastructure Overview
- 10. The Business Case (Note that acquisition costs are a small part of overall TCO) “IT organizations are spending from 70-80% of their total IT budgets on maintenance and ongoing operations. -- Forrester “For modern IT platforms, 30% of the total cost is the cost of acquiring the equipment. The balance is for IT labor/services to configure, maintain, upgrade, reconfigure, and ultimately decommission the equipment. -- IDC Acquisition CostAcquisition Cost SecuritySecurity DeploymentDeployment DowntimeDowntime Asset ManagementAsset Management SoftwareSoftware MaintenanceMaintenance PowerPower SpaceSpace 10%-50% 50%-90% TCO
- 11. Resource Sizing Budget Flexibility Test Environments Pay for what you use Temporary Resources On-Demand Lifecycle management Easy Provisioning Simplify administration Scalable Cloud Capabilities ITAgility Plan Procure Deploy Cloud Realities
- 12. Fast Facts Trends and Growth of Cloud Solutions The Realities Infrastructure Overview
- 13. High Value Offering • Enterprise-level solution • Value is easily demonstrated • RAS • Highly Reliable • Highly Available • Highly Scalable Cloud built on IBM Power Infrastructure is more than about saving money, it supports business innovation, agility and effectiveness.
- 14. POWER i Infrastructure-as-a-Service Optimizes the complete solution PaaS/IaaS: • All hardware and software components factory integrated and optimized • Storage tuned to data needs • Hardware directly tuned to the software • Born virtualized and ready for cloud • System resource allocation uniquely optimized per selected pattern for each application workload Servers Storage Networking Virtualization Management Development Middleware Deployment Applications • Pre-configured, pre-integrated infrastructure system with compute, storage, networking, physical and virtual management.
- 15. PureFlex System is Integrated by design Expert Integrated Systems Tightly integrated compute, storage, networking, software, management, and security ApplicationsTools Compute Storage Networking Virtualization ManagementSecurity
- 16. Power Systems Cloud Benefits What does it mean for you?
- 17. Secure Data Centers SIAS-BO3 – Waltham, MA SIAS-NY3 – Hawthorne, NY • Power and Utility Provider - Fully redundant with isolated paths from independent UPS and generators • HVAC - The Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) system for the raised floor space consists of twenty-four Computer Room Air Conditioners (CRACs) units fed from an N+1 central chilled water plant. • Fire Detection and Suppression - dual interlock pre-action fire sprinkler system • KeyTrak/CCTV physical access security and proximity reader card access • 24/7 onsite security and technical personnel *Data Center tours available upon request* The facilities are designed to meet the stringent demands of Enterprise customers who require reliable availability of critical IT assets.
- 18. Network Overview HA Clustered Routers and Firewalls at the Datacenter Edge CUSTOMER 001 CUSTOMER 002 Customer Network Segments Securely Isolated PowerVM IntelVM PowerVM IntelVM SIAS Resource Cloud IBM PureSystems Infrastructure provides resources for: IBM-Power I,AIX and Linux on PowerVM IBM-Intel Windows and Linux on Vmware IBM V7000 SAN Storage *Optional Customer Communications: MPLS, Firewall, VPN, Router Etc... *Optional Virtual Tape Library (VTL) - For Backups and Archiving Internet Customer Access Site L2L VPN Client SSL VPN
- 19. Data Center Redundancy HA Clustered Routersand Firewalls at theDatacenter Edge Customer Network SIAS Resource Cloud *Optional VTL For Backups and Archiving SIAS Datacenter Vision, Mimix, Maxava, or PowerHA Data Replication Source Veeam, or vSphere Data Replication SAN Replication SIAS HA Resources PowerVM IntelVM PowerVM 1 3 2 Internet Customer Network SIAS HA/DR Datacenter IntelVM
- 20. Q & A