5 ways to reduce costs while modernizing your infrastructure
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5 Ways to Reduce Costs While Modernizing Your Infrastructure
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The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a new but already proven architecture that leverages IT infrastructure to enable businesses to achieve greater agility, speed, and security.
SDDC
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Wheezing Infrastructure
Pressure On Many FrontsIT infrastructure is straining under the pressure of a data-intensive age. Costs are rising, and performance is lagging.
New Business Models
Power OutagesLack of VisibilityDowntime
RecoveryScalability
Rising real estate costs
Overprovisioning
Management Silos
Management Overhead
Competitive pressures Alert StormTime-to-Market
Out-of-ComplianceAdmin Time
Power Costs
Cost Transparency
CapExOpExStorage Failure
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What is the Software-Defined Data Center?
A New Architectural Approach With Many Payoffs
The Software-Defined Data
Center (SDDC) virtualizes
all infrastructure …
... which boosts performance ... … and lowers costs …
Network | Server | Storage Efficiency | Control | Agility Hardware | Energy | Admin
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Top Priorities
Meeting Long-Term StrategiesSoftware-Defined Data Center architecture empowers companies to meet three top priorities:
Next-generation data architecture and economics
Cutting-edge security and high availability
Services production at business speed
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Goal #1 | Standardization
Slashing CapEx CostsIt has many names—data center modernization, consolidation, or standardization. By any name, virtualization of the computer, network, and storage layers provides many benefits:
• Up to 49% reduction in CapEx costs
• Centralize IT
• Lower unit costs
• Improved OLAs/SLAs
• More business responsiveness
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The SDDC Journey
More Benefits With Each StepSDDC is a journey, where companies gain more efficiencies and cost-savings at each step along the path.
Stage Products Objective Benefits Payoff
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
vSphere with Ops. Mgmt. ENT+ vRealize Operations Insight
Virtual SAN, NSX SRM (for DC Migration only)
vCloud Air vRealize Suite
Compute VirtualizationManagement
Software Defined Storage/Network Virtualization
Hybrid Cloud and ease of management
Reduce power costs, outages and admin time. Streamlined proactive management
CapEx savings, reduced downtime, faster recovery, improved security
Faster time-to-market, effective utilization of resources
35% ROI
70% ROI
78% ROI
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Goal #2 | Streamlined/Automated Operations
Making IT Truly ProactiveMany companies are constrained by complex IT infrastructure and reactive IT operations. Building more intelligence into the infrastructure achieves both cost cutting and better business performance.
Automation drives out inefficiencies in IT processes
Measure performance and associate it with costs
Cost-cutting
Business enhancement
Step Benefit
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Getting Smarter
Making IT Operations More IntelligentAn intelligent, automated network results in smarter IT —and smarter operations.
Before After Result
At Boeing , 92% of 11,000 virtual machines were overprovisioned Boeing’s daily threshold alerts dropped from 500-1,000 a day to 50-100 a day
Cornerstone Home Lending wasted resources through inability to monitor VM health
Reactive IT
Rightsized VM
Administrators can handle 60% more machines
Improved infrastructure visibility
Proactive IT
Average company enjoys 34% increase in capacity utilization
Faster mean-time-to -recovery; with average company seeing 26% improvement in diagnostic & problem resolution time
Reduced hardware costs by 70%
IT has time to provide intelligence on important cost-benefit decisions
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Goal #3 | Better Security
More Granular SecuritySDDC enables network infrastructure to be separated into granular elements, so they can be fortified at a lower cost with lower administrative overhead.
• Physical separation of security zones
• Complex, with multiple firewall ports/zones
• Many costly physical firewalls
• Each workload has its own network/security configuration
• Policy based configuration, attached to each workload
• Granular security without added complexity
• Reduce firewall costs by up to 70%
Before SDDC After SDDC
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Goal #4 | High Availability
Cut Disaster Recovery Costs in HalfTraditional DR requires expensive hardware/software that usually sits idle. SDDC simplifies business continuity and DR with automatic failovers.
• High OpEx - Management silos
• High CapEx - Duplicate storage/server hardware
• Automated pre-defined plans
• High availability when VMs/hardware crash
• Hybrid cloud for disasters/power outages
Before SDDC After SDDC
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Goal #5 | Automated Delivery
Moving at the Speed of BusinessCompanies gain competitive advantage with Application and Infrastructure Delivery Automation.
• Compute, network and storage silos managed by separate teams
• Business issues a ticket request for IT services
• Manual checking, provisioning, validation and testing
• Services delivered in weeks
• Costs hazy
• Time lost in mass of tickets
• Efficiency in the management of compute, network and storage virtualized
• Service blueprints through self-service portal
• Services request/delivered automatically
• Services delivered in minutes
• Costs can be tracked
• Rapid time-to-market
Before SDDC After SDDC
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Hybrid Cloud
Maximizing the Hybrid CloudSDDC provides a path to a true hybrid cloud, where a company can move between external and internal resources, private and public clouds, depending on the most efficient and cost-effective solution.
Apollo Education Group, which provides unique technologies and innovative solutions to the global network of academic institutions and learning platforms, embraced SDDC for its hybrid cloud.
• Lack of cost transparency
• Lack of visibility and control
• $1.6 million monthly cloud spend
• Meet demand while offering higher OLAs and SLAs
• Migrated off public cloud; easier to administer
• Reduced costs by 90%
Before SDDC After SDDC
Learn More
Discover more about Streamlined and Automated Data Center Operations
Check out an overview infographic High-Value Outcomes for IT Organizations
See how Columbia Sportswear grows IT innovation with VMware SDDC
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