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Mission

Think Dynamics is in the business of automating the management of data center resources thereby enabling senior IT executives to reduce costs, improve service levels, increase business/IT alignment and enhancing agility

We do this by automating and accelerating

three key practices:

– Capacity management

– Service level management

– Automated environment provisioning

Feedback from customers

The top issues we hear from CIOs and other senior IT executives facing the organization today are:

• Utility Computing

• Server Consolidation

• Disaster Recovery

• Capacity-on-Demand

• High Availability

• Testing environments

• Automated provisioning

Product Offering & Capabilities

Problem: Just-in-case provisioning

• Average Resource utilization of only 20%• High Cost of servers, software and maintenance• Unpredictable services levels • Reactive IT staff and human error• Disconnect between IT spending and business goals• traditional manual systems administration practices have prevented a more efficient method

of provisioning application infrastructure…….until now

Data centers typically deploy large infrastructures of isolated over-capacity

Resulting in:

Solution: Just-in-time provisioning

Capacity Management

•Measure Infrastructure Performance

•Measure Application Performance

•Analyze & Predict Application Resource Requirements

Service Level Management

Define data center & application service levels

Measure application service levels

Report on application service level compliance

Prevent application service level breach

Manage contention for resources between applications

Infrastructure Provisioning

Complete N-tier application environments

Server Provisioning

OS / Package Provisioning

Application Software Provisioning

Network Configuration & Provisioning

Cluster / array provisioning

What Think Control offers is:

•works with YOUR best-practices•works with your existing network and storage infrastructure•not disruptive to existing applications

Product Requirements

• Think Server Requirements

– Hardware

• 2 servers (3 servers for HA)• CPU - UltraSparc-Iie 500 MHz or PIII1 Ghz (fast, modern CPU)• Memory – 500 MB Minimum, 1 GB preferred• Operating system – Solaris 8, Windows 2000, RedHat Linux 7.2

– Software

• Oracle 8i Standard Edition (8.1.7 R2)• BEA Weblogic License

Platform Support

• Network devices– Switches: Cisco, Extreme, Foundry– Load Balancers: Cisco, Alteon, F5– Firewalls: Cisco

• Hardware– Compaq Proliant, Compaq Blades, IBM, Sun, Dell, HP Blade Server, RLX,

Cubix

• Operating Systems– Win2K, Solaris, AIX, Linux (Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake)

• Web Servers– IIS, Apache

• Application Servers– WebSphere, WebLogic, Resin, JRun

• Databases– Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL

Thank you!