Customer Needs GE Access Consolidation Strategies Slide Bank

Customer Needs

• Server Consolidation • Storage Consolidation • Network Consolidation • Virtualization • Improve Manageability • Enhance IT staff efficiency • Physical Consolidation • Resource Utilization • Manage Acquisition Costs • Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs • Minimizing Opportunity Costs • Fast Response Time • Fast Service Time • Scalability

• Security and Privacy • Connectivity • Reliability • Disaster Recovery • Availability • Security • Interoperability • Application Integration • System and Data Integration • Strategic Enablement • Real-time Change Management • Faster Application Development • Minimize Business Interruption • eBusiness Scalability

Customer Need: Server Consolidation

• The merging of applications, databases and services onto fewer, highly reliable servers – Better asset utilization – Elimination of unnecessary systems– Reduce staffing– Lower maintenance costs– Reduce number of operating environments

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Server Consolidation

• Sun Fire Servers• Binary compatibility• Provide continuous availability• Scalability • Performance• Increased flexibility • Better resource management• Investment protection

Sun Fire Servers

Customer Need: Storage Consolidation

• Improve data access for all users• Improve IT data flows • Maximize utilization of IT personnel, facility, and

system resources• Increase the number of terabytes that can be

administered by a single person• Save valuable data center floor space or even

recover floor tiles• Lower maintenance and service costs• Fewer hardware components• Fewer software licenses

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Storage Consolidation

• Consolidating multiple servers into a multi-domain server and combining the storage into a single storage platform

• Consolidating just the storage subsystems into a single storage subsystem

• Consolidate storage islands into fully implemented storage Area Networks (SAN’s)

Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN SwitchesSun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers

Veritas High Availability Solutions Hitachi Thunder & Lightning

StorageTek Disk D Series

Customer Need: Network Consolidation

• Improve quality of service• Increase the amount of data transfer• Increase transfer speeds• Accommodate increased network traffic • Enable remote access

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Network Consolidation

• Faster throughput• Minimize bottlenecks• More efficient data replication• Superior IT service management• Remote access

Extreme NetworksHP Open View

Tarantella

Customer Need: Virtualization

• Increase flexibility and responsiveness of the infrastructure

• Shorten lead times• Achieve economies of scale• Manage more resources with fewer staff• Be able to easily add or swap out system

resources • Applications are fully isolated

– Containing resources– Isolating faults – Ensuring domain security

“Do more with less.”

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Virtualization

• Full resource containment and control• Security isolation• Fault isolation• Service Management Application• No physical limitations

• N1– Sun’s strategy virtualises

all of a company’s computing resources

Solaris 9 ContainersSun N1

Veritas’ High Availability Solutions

Customer Need: Improve Manageability

• Improve the reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability of IT services

• More efficiently manage workloads– Resource partitioning– Workload classification– Resource control – Resource accounting

• Improve service levels and quality

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Improve Manageability

• Improve workload management • System-wide resource management• Single point of management • Custom resource allocation policies• Remote system configuration• Monitor performance• Isolate hardware and software faults • Storage-virtualization technology

Solaris 9 Sun Technology

Veritas’ High Availability Solutions

Customer Need: Enhance IT Staff Efficiency

• Make better use of skilled and scarce IT labor• Upgrade level of IT skills• Reduce headcount• Greater productivity per IT professional

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Enhance IT Staff Efficiency

• Sun’s Binary Compatibility• Consistent methodology• In-depth hardware and service monitoring• Agent technology and sophisticated controls by

administrator• Optimize storage resource utilization and simplify

administration in heterogeneous environments

Sun’s Binary CompatibilitySun Management Centers

Veritas Storage Management Solutions

Customer Need: Physical Consolidation

• Consolidate servers in one central location• Make better use of resources• Reduce staffing

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Physical Consolidation

• Unified and automated storage management solution

• Multi-domain server and single storage platform• Single storage subsystem• Storage Area Networks (SAN’s)

Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN SwitchesSun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers

Veritas High Availability Solutions Hitachi Thunder & Lightning

StorageTek Disk D Series

Customer Need: Resource Utilization

• Improve servers utilization • Reduce aggregate capacity• Enable shared resources• Reduce TCO• Reduce unplanned downtime

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Resource Utilization

• Domain partitioning • Dynamic reconfiguration• System-wide resource management

Sun Fire ServersSolaris Resource Manager

Customer Need: Manage Acquisition Costs

• Reduce the numbers of machines a company needs to support its IT services

• Reduce the costs of purchasing and maintaining multiple operating system environments

• Watch out for deceptive ROI analysis– Project-specific ROI’s build inefficiencies

• Increasing proportion of IT resources devoted to infrastructures

• Less money to invest in new application functionality

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Manage Acquisition Costs

• Single operating system reduces a TCO• Solaris - 9 generations of backward compatibility• Sun financing programs- Capacity on Demand-

enables you to “buy as you go”• Open architecture and virtualization lower upfront

investment costs• “Pay-as-you-go” scalability• Just-in-time purchasing

Sun TechnologyHitachi Freedom Storage

StorageTek D-SeriesGE Access’ Financial Services Group

Customer Need: Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs

• Reduce headcount• Improve efficiency• Reduce costs of• Managing the network• Systems• Storage• Providing end-user support • Administration• Training• Purchasing• Help desks

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs

• Sun’s Architectural Consistency• Hitachi Freedom Storage• StorageTek L Series Tape Library

Sun Architectural ConsistencyHitachi Freedom Storage

StorageTek L Series Tape Library

Customer Need: Minimizing Opportunity Costs

• Cost of unplanned downtime• Angry and lost customers• Missed e-business opportunities• Degrading customer satisfaction ratings • Liabilities caused by improperly tracked

transactions

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Minimizing Opportunity Costs

• Minimize both planned and unplanned downtime• Disruption protection even in the case of failure• Data backup and recovery protects critical data• Back up data with non-disruptive, real-time copies• Redundant, hot-swappable components with no

single point of failure maintains business continuity

• Migrate and store your data in secure, off site facilities

Sun Solaris RAS FunctionalityVeritas Data Protection

Hitachi Freedom Storage SolutionsStorageTek L Series Tape Library

Customer Need: Fast Response Time

• Reduce time taken by a system to respond to user• Reduce system overhead• Increase network bandwidth• Minimize delays• Increase productivity

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Fast Response Time

• SAN architecture enables storage area network management– Consolidate storage resources on the network– Optimize resource utilization – Improve response time

• Optimise storage resource utilization • Simplify administration• Complete solution including switches

Sun StoreEdgeOpen SAN Solutions

Veritas Network Storage Management SoftwareStorageTek D-Series Software and Storage Devices

Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches

Fast Service Time

• Reduce response time• Faster transaction processing• Faster order fulfillment• Improve organizational responsiveness

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Fast Service Time

• 24/7 availability• Outstanding throughput speed for global data

access• High application availability• Instant data access• Disruption-free operations• Comprehensive data protection

Sun Fire Servers & Sun StorEdge Storage ArraysStorageTek D-Series

Customer Need: Scalability

• Ability to quickly and cost effectively scale IT infrastructures

• Increase throughput• Minimize impact on ongoing IT productivity and

services

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Scalability

• Sun’s binary compatibility • Easy migration path to increase capacity and

performance

Sun’s Platform ScalabilityStorageTek D-Series Storage Systems

Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series

Customer Need: Security and Privacy

• Protect customer and employee data from unauthorized use and distribution

• Protect against electronic theft and fraud• Intrusion detection

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Security and Privacy

• Network-centric security• Password protection • Encryption• Protect and securely connect offices of all sizes• Security, reliability and ease of use for mobile and

networked workforce• Simplified, proactive, protection against security

attacks

Sun Platform SecurityCheckPoint

NokiaInternet Security Systems (ISS)

Customer Need: Connectivity

• Maintain a dialogue with trading partners• Iterative, ongoing interactivity with customers• Increase permeability of the company’s

boundaries

GE Access Consolidation Strategy:Connectivity

• Balance the increasing desire for connectivity with the limitations of living with legacy system

Sun ONE Services on Demand

Customer Need: Reliability

• Improve accuracy of transactions• Two-phase commit• Real-time logging • Recoverability of transaction records• Increase velocity of response• Reduce variability• Minimize impact of change

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Reliability

• Built-in redundancies to negate any single points of failure

• Hot swappable components and advanced online serviceability reduce downtime

• Resource allocation across individual domains on the fly

• Allocate shares of system resources to various workloads

Sun RAS FunctionalitySolaris Resource Manager

Veritas Storage Management Software

Customer Need: Disaster Recovery

• Recover records in case of an outage, system failure or operator error

• Support continuous business operations during a disastrous occurrence

• Support continuous business operations during a disastrous occurrence

• Conduct extremely rapid fail over without losing or corrupting records

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Disaster Recovery

• Fault-tolerant system with fully redundant, hot-installable/hot-replaceable components

• Power alternatives for all duplicated components• Minimal interruptions even in heterogeneous

environments• Off site data storage that doesn’t disrupt your

regular data flow• Any-to-any connectivity

Sun’s Disaster Recovery FunctionalityVeritas Disaster Recovery

Hitachi Multiplatform Backup/RestoreStorageTek L Series Tape Library

Customer Need: Availability

• Delivery of efficient IT service with no outages visible to users

• Minimize planned outages for tasks such as hardware and software upgrades, application and database changes, and preventative maintenance

• Avoid the disruptive effects of unplanned outages• Minimize any negative impact of workload surges

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Availability

• Point-in-time copy and remote mirroring helps reduce disruptions

• Create custom resource allocation policies based on individual and group needs

• Manage workloads and allocate resources where and when they are needed

• Manage workloads and allocate resources where and when they are needed

• SAN technology improves data availability

Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN SwitchesSun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers

Veritas High Availability Solutions Hitachi Thunder & Lightning

StorageTek Disk D Series

Customer Need: Security

• Firewalls need to be installed and administered• Virus protection• Intrusion detection and response• Auditing and analysis• Minimize labor costs

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Security

• Network-centric security• Protect and securely connect offices of all sizes• Security reliability and ease of use for mobile

workforce• Simplified, proactive, protection against security

attacks• Authenticate software and hardware tokens, smart

cards and digital certificates

Sun’s Network-Centric SecurityCheckPoint

NokiaInternet Security Systems

RSA Security

Customer Need: Interoperability

• Improve back-end integration• Minimize costs of Interoperability• Improve IT Performance• Provide better information• Enable cross-functional and inter-enterprise

application and data sharing

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Interoperability

• Open architecture and commitment to open standards ensures application interoperability

• Open, published standards provides greater choice of products that they will all work together

Sun ONESolaris 9

Application Integration

• Reduce management complexity • Improve resource management and utilization• Decrease costs associated with buying, building

and administering multiple applications

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Application Integration

• Lower the lower the complexity of your data center by hosting multiple apps on a single server

• Cluster software allows a single application or series of applications to run across multiple domains or systems

• Enhanced manageability, availability and performance of databases and applications improves application integration

Veritas Storage Management SoftwareSun’s Dynamic System Domains

Sun’s Cluster Software

System and Data Integration

• Increase interoperability and data access• Support sustained workload growth over long

periods with little or no increase in costs• Better resource utilization

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: System and Data Integration

• Sun’s Data Center Consolidation Solution improving efficiency and reducing complexity

• Hitachi Freedom Storage reduces storage management complexity

• Veritas Storage Management Software simplifies the administration of heterogeneous environments dramatically improvising application and systems integration initiatives

Sun’s Data Center Consolidation SolutionHitachi Freedom Storage

Veritas Storage Management Software

Customer Need: Strategic Enablement

• Easier access to information • Support innovative process• Support empowered teams

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Strategic Enablement

• GE Access Professional Services– Centralized resource for the consulting, technical,

educational and professional service organizations• Sun, Veritas, Hitachi and StorageTek

– Source contracts with other systems integrators• EDS, CapGemini, Accenture

• Sun Professional Services– Map business strategy to technology roadmap

GE Access Professional ServicesSun Professional Services

Customer Need: Real-time Change Management

• Support innovation• Increase systems flexibly to enable organizational

responsiveness • Migrate to an open architecture

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Real-time Change Management

• Sun’s Open Architecture • Highly reliable, available and secure technologies

Solaris 9SunOne

Customer Need: Faster Application Development

• Simpler, more efficient development environment• Minimize political issues• Support evolutionary business change• Increase organizational responsiveness

Sun TechnologyHitachi Freedom Storage

StorageTek D-Series

GE Access’ Financial Services Group

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Faster Application Development

• Quickly integrate new, empowering functionality into mission critical business solutions

• Open architecture supports a wide range of best-of-breed solutions

• Over 13,000, third party applications that written for the Solaris operating system and the Sun platform

Sun ISV Partnerships

Customer Need: Minimize Business Interruption

• Minimize impact of outages and downtime• Improve resource utilization and productivity• Track costs resulting from downtime

– Loss of current and future revenue– Opportunity costs of being late to market– Bottlenecks that affect operating efficiency

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Minimize Business Interruption

• Can support millions of users• Enable continuous uptime & application availability• Comprehensive monitoring and reporting of

business-critical systems• Better control and management• Integrate data centralized and distributed data

ensures data availability

Sun RAS FeaturesHitachi Freedom Storage

Veritas Data Protection Suite

Customer Need: eBusiness Scalability

• Ability cost effectively scale to meet support eBusiness opportunities

• Support workload spikes caused by daily or weekly cycles and seasonal peaks

• Support increased complexity • Scale to accommodate peaks and sudden spikes in

usage

GE Access Consolidation Strategy: eBusiness Scalability

• Cross-generational and cross-product line binary compatibility ensure the highest levels of scalability – Expand more rapidly– Less expensively – Less risk

• Easy migration path to increase capacity and performance

• Non-disruptive expansion

Sun’s Platform ScalabilityStorageTek D-Series Storage Systems

Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series