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Presentation from April 19 webinar: Data Center Operational Efficiency Best Practices Video Roundtable. Featuring speakers from IBM, IDC and The NFL. http://bit.ly/LjNaHL
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Data Center Operational Efficiency
Best Practices Video Roundtable The IT Services Site Webinar Sponsored by
Webinar Logistics
Welcome to our webinar
Stephen Saunders
Managing Director
The IT Services Site
Today’s Featured Speakers
Margaret Dings
Vice President, Services Industry Consulting Group
IDC
Nancy Galietti
Vice President of Information Technology
National Football League
Jeanette Horan
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
IBM
Steve Sams
Vice President, Site and Facility Services
IBM
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Data center operational efficiency best practices Enabling increased new project spending by improving data center efficiency
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One in five, or 21%, of clients have highly efficient data centers—and are allocating 50% more of their IT budget to new projects
How much of your IT budget
is spent on:
35%
65%
Basic
data
centers
Strategic
data
centers
New projects
Maintain existing
infrastructure
47%
Improving data center operational efficiency allows spending to go to:
6
53%
• Improving public safety or
providing more citizen services
• Transforming core banking and
payment systems
• Implementing smart grids or
improving generation performance
• Allocating funds to other business
priorities
New projects
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Optimize the IT and
facilities assets to maximize
capacity and availability
Design for flexibility to
support changing business
needs
Use automation tools to
improve service levels and
availability
Have a plan that aligns with
the business goals and
keep it current
Characteristics of highly efficient data centers
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48%
93% 92%
27%21%
14%
Leaders have moved beyond consolidation to high levels of virtualization for server, storage and network environments
Asset optimization: virtualization is table stakes
Leaders have 2.5x more servers managed per administrator (27 versus 10). They have higher virtual machine densities of 8.2 versus 4.5 VM’s per server
Percent of servers virtualized
Use storage virtualization Use data deduplication technologies
Basic Strategic
Optimization
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90%
46% 45% 47%
21%
8%
31%
9%
Leaders design for flexibility, with optimal levels of availability and redundancy in their IT and facilities infrastructure
Design for flexibility…and minimize disruption to operations
Business resilience for IT is increasingly essential to address new regulations, security threats and service outages; leaders are using more sophisticated methods.
Upgrade mechanical /
electrical equipment without
disruption
Primary data center
replicated with active-active
Replication used for
storage backup
Basic Strategic
Network architected to
flexibility introduce new services
Flexibility
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58%
87%
30% 31%
1% 3% 3% 0%
Leaders employ higher levels of automation to offload manual tasks, reduce error rates and meet service level agreements
Automation provides flexibility to improve availability
Over 30% of leaders have implemented self-service portals to provision virtual machines, with 80% of leaders planning them by 2013 to support cloud computing
Move virtual machines to meet SLA’s
Implemented a storage service catalog
Network services are automatically provisioned
Basic Strategic
Monitor thermal conditions
Automation
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86%
62%
75%
31%
43%
27%
9%
21%
Leaders adopt and refresh technology faster
Have a plan – don't wait to adopt new technology
Basic Strategic
Leaders value faster migration of workloads to new technology and integration into existing service management processes
First and fast technology adoption
Plan to implement
converged
infrastructure
Planned growth rate in server virtualization in the
next year (mean response)
Refresh technology within 12-23 months
Planning
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68%
25%
77%
33%
53%
0%
14%
2%
Leaders use fact-based planning to be more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing needs
Forecast to be flexible to the business needs
Basic Strategic
Good design is an insurance policy that provides flexibility to support new technology. Vendor and technology tradeoffs can reduce total data center costs 15 – 30%.
Build capacity in smaller increments
Forecast space
(10 to 20 years)
Forecast power demand
Implement low and high density zones
Planning
Questions? Please submit your questions now
Margaret Dings
Vice President, Services Industry Consulting Group
IDC
Nancy Galietti
Vice President of Information Technology
National Football League
Jeanette Horan
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
IBM
Steve Sams
Vice President, Site and Facility Services
IBM
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