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© 2015 IBM CorporationIBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family
Cancer Center Achieves Agility with Cloud Infrastructure Built on IBM System Storage
Rich de MichelethinkASG
Session 1530
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Enterprise IT Consulting company driven by
a passion to Create Clients for Life.
We help align technology with the goals and objectives of the business.
21+ years as IBM Elite Partner
Who We Are
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Begins to Deliver IT as a Service
Focus on the Outcome, not the Infrastructure
Flexibility, Capacity, Security, Cost, Open
Why Cloud?
Easier is better, right?
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Unique consulting process called yourBusiness.
yourCloud – Where to put my workloads/apps
yourData – Unlock ways to better manage my business data
yourSupport – Is everything I need to run my business supported
yourMobility – Support my expanding mobile workforce
yourSecurity – Is my business protected
Our Approach
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What do these have in common?
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What do these have in common?
They allow you to Set It and Forget It
Automation
IBM Virtualization and Easy Tier
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Customer Case Studies
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IBM Cloud Storage Case Study examples
• Cancer Center• Fortune 10 customer• Healthcare• Manufacturing• Media and Entertainment• Automotive• Finance• Genomics• Distribution
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Pre-IBM Infrastructure snapshot
Source: If applicable, describe source origin
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Pre-IBM IT Challenges
• Not ‘Cloud Ready’
• Lack of Tier 1 for mission critical applications
• Terrible Performance – latency & IOPs
• Complexity
• Uptime/reliability
• Zero Agility
• Cost of Management
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yourBusiness solution objectives
• Seek out new infrastructure with the following criteria• Cloud Ready
– Agility– Accessibility– Provision, don’t procure
• Reliability – Enterprise class data availability & protection• Failure Protection – Ability to recover from single component failure• Simplicity of Management • Performance• Scalability
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IBM Cloud Technologies
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Private Cloud Enabling Technologies:IBM SVC SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center• EasyTier• HA/DR Replication Ready Infrastructure
IBM XIV• Cost and speed is unparalleled • true Grid Technology
IBM FlashSystem Storage• Ultra fast, lowest latency• EMR, Database and Enterprise Applications on IBM Tier
0 (FlashSystem)
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End State Vision
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XIV
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IBM Cloud Delivered Benefits
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• Elasticity – The Private Cloud solution enables client to scale their infrastructure on-demand to quickly meet new requirements, challenges and growth.
• Self-Provisioning – users and researchers have the ability to Self-Provision compute and storage resources On-Demand. This delivers a speed to business requirements in minutes vs. days/weeks/months. Researchers are now able to execute and provision resources immediately and at anytime.
• Ubiquitous Access – Secure access anytime, anywhere and from any device.
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IBM Cloud Delivered Benefits
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• Security – All the benefits of the Cloud while still retaining 100% control for security and compliance purposes.
• Cost – The new Private Cloud solution is delivering greater than a 70% compression ratio, which significantly reduced the amount of storage needed thus lowering the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Performance – The new virtualized storage system is providing <1ms access and 500K+ IOPS thanks to Easy Tier and all-flash array for frequently accessed data.
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Consulting Partner
• Don’t do it alone and reinvent the wheel. Engage an expert partner with deep experience.
• thinkASG spends the time up front to really understand what your vision, goals and restrictions are before designing anything.
• We are focused on our customers and how to make them more successful.
Thank YouRich de MichelethinkASG714-514-6109rich@thinkasg.com
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