Slide 1What is Virtualization?Why?BenefitsStaff and HoursCPU UtilizationTimeline and SpaceSystems ManagementSystems Management cont.Software and HardwareTestimonialsConclusionQuestions?The Power of VirtualizationEli DakhilWhat is Virtualization?Why?20%80%BenefitsSavings in capital and operational expensesGreater ROIReduction in physical serversReduced energy usageImproved recoveryAutomation of data center operationsStaff and HoursNumber of VMs 1 admin can handle020406080100120Be-foreAnnual time spent on disaster recovery drills (in days) *050100150200250300350400 * calculated with 2.5 times a year, 20 people sent to remote data center for a week of disaster-recovery drills and then only two-three people sent to drills, and for only two-three days (Santos of Burton Group)CPU UtilizationBefore (From AXA Technical Services)Percent UtilizedPercent Not Uti-lizedAfter (From AXA Technical Services)Timeline and Space“… server virtualization typically pays for itself in just six to nine months,” says Rob Smoot, Head of vCenter Product Marketing at VmwareU.S. Veterans Administration counting on virtualization to reduce space needed in hospitals and house server boxes by 50%Virtualized 10% of its 15,000 servers and countingSystems Management“Virtualized environments are already over provisioned, by applying analytics, this might be improved by 30-50%” - J.W.V.IT departments can achieve maximum return from remaining physical assetsBigger savings in the area of systems managementHaving fewer physical servers simplifies the management taskprovisioning, load-balancing, recovery from faults can be automatedCreates new layer of infrastructure to manageVMs can get out of hand if not managed properly, leading to increased management costsSystems Management cont.“You can run the virtualized environment with fewer people," - Roy Illsley, Senior Analyst at market watchers Ovum Ltd.Cut across operational silos, IT becomes business-focusedEven without organizational changes, data centers easier to manageLess-technical users in other departments to reserve and provision servers using simple Web interfaceCan succeed with right management tools and strategies to let administrators establish and control physical and virtual server pools, user profiles and automated build proceduresCA Spectrum® Automation Manager"Our plan is definitely to manage virtual and physical servers together, […] we hope to have a more complete and comprehensive view of the virtual environment" - Najjar of AXASoftware and HardwareVMware's virtualization software, vSphere 4.0New Intel and AMD chips enable applications to run as fast on virtual servers as on physical servers — or fasterCan dissolve the organizational silosData centers easier to manage100% virtualized data centers becomes viableTestimonials"At the end of the day, what we really are trying to do is optimize the customer experience […] we expect virtualization to help us save money and be greener […] what virtualization provides is on-demand-based computing. When demand increases, we can dynamically allocate new resources to satisfy that request.“ – Jeff Lush“To provide effective monitoring, customers need an enterprise solution that can determine root cause across the different technology silos — application, network, systems (including virtual) and database[…] you can get ahead of performance problems before they affect the end user.“ - Jay Wink, Solutions Architect at CA+HW costHeat/CoolSupportReal Estate-ComplexMGMT
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