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