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Playing SAM Smarter
Christof Beaupoil, Co-founder and PresidentAspera Technologies
Advanced License Optimization by Aspera
Your Coach:Christof Beaupoil
Who am I?
I co-founded Aspera in 2000.
I have over 15 years of experience in the SAM industry.
I’ve implemented and consulted on over 60 license management projects at globally operating organizations.
I am a multi-culti: I speak German, English and Spanish fluently. Óle!
Introducing AsperaFacts & Figures
120
Employees worldwide
>70% Growth
2000
Year founded
3founders still leading the company
Only
SKU-catalog maintained
100% in-house
Average customer size
40,000 clients
All
Goal of SLOSoftware License Optimization
SLO documents and reconciles software
usage and installations with the available
licenses and entitlements to ensure
compliance.
Software License OptimizationSLO Cornerstones
Usage
Demand for licenses
Reconciliation
Purchases
Licenses & entitlement
s
Reporting
Infrastructure
Normalization
Someone Smart Once Said…
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”Albert Einstein
Advanced License Optimization (ALO)Now, Play Smarter.
Advanced License Optimization
Extends SLO (the rules of the game), revealing the ideal infrastructure and
the most cost-effective license to cover the demand, always taking the current
license & entitlement inventory into account
at all times. Also in dynamic data center and virtual environments.
ALO CornerstonesAdvanced License Optimization
Simulate infrastructure
Optimize the demand for
licenses
Optimize compliance
Smarter procurement
decisions
Deploy the most cost-effective
license
Optimize infrastructure
Achieve hard savings (not just cost
avoidance)
Advanced License OptimizationPlay 1: MS SQL Server
- 76%- $170,000
Not in inventory!
- 59%- $42,000
100%
Direct comparison of licensing models:
Compliance & ALO
Installed: MS SQL Server 2008 R2
License Inventory: 24 Standard and 12 Datacenter Editions
Your Server Topologies:
Another Example
The Game:
vS1 vS2
Cluster
SQL 2008 R2
SQL 2008 R2
STD 2008 STD 2008
vS27
SQL 2008 R2
STD 2008
…vS1 vS2
Server2
CPUs
SQL 2008 R2
SQL 2008 R2
vS25
SQL 2008 R2
…
Server4
CPUs
Server6
CPUs
DC 2008DC 2008
DC 2008DC 2008DC 2008DC 2008
Compliance & ALOPlay 2
Product Demand
Licenses
Compliance Position
Compliance Value
Standard 54 24 -30 -$195,000
Datacenter 2 12 +10 +$555,000
vS1 vS2
Cluster
SQL 2008 R2
SQL 2008 R2
STD 2008 STD 2008
vS27
SQL 2008 R2
STD 2008
…vS1 vS2
Server2
CPUs
SQL 2008 R2
SQL 2008 R2
vS25
SQL 2008 R2
…
Server4
CPUs
Server6
CPUs
DC 2008DC 2008
Advanced License Optimization
Standard 0 24 +24 +$156,000
Datacenter 12 12 0 $0
DC 2008DC 2008DC 2008
DC 2008DC 2008DC 2008
Series1
-600000 -450000 -300000 -150000 0 150000 300000 450000 600000
Better Compliance with ALOHard Savings (Not Just Cost Avoidance)
$555,000
$156,000
$195,000
$399,000
SLO
ALO
Cost avoidance
Amount of Under-licensing Amount of Over-spend
$195,000
Hard savings
Questions?The Floor is Now Open
Christof Beaupoil
Phone: +1 617-307-7733Email: [email protected] Technologies Inc. – 119 Braintree Street, Suite 602 – Boston, MA 02134 – www.aspera.com
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