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rising Business imperatives
managing Business transitions
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accelerating Business performance
the beginning of digital transformation for industries, governments and economies is based on the three key enterprise it mega trends:
The rise of a new digital age
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the modernisation of it legacy in cio ’s ‘2.5 platform’ it land – agility is the new table stake
Harnessing cloud, mobile, big data analytics and social business mash-up benefits for loBs
innovation acceleration — new competition as well as new business and operating models are the new normal
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• rising Business imperatives • enabling Business agility • accelerating Business performance
managing Business transitions
the disruption from new players and business/consumption models is challenging
ceos, creating an urgent need to transform their organisations to one that is
agile and with the ability to make decisions quicker. technologies that are able to
help deliver insights faster have therefore become top of mind for ceos and their
leadership teams.
CEO challenges
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managing Business transitions
escalating cost of operations
new business models
new competitors
changing customers’ buying patterns
new government regulations
M a r k e t r e a l i t y
source: iDc asia/pacific c-suite Barometer 2015
a s i a / p a c i f i c b u s i n e s s p r i o r i t i e s
to address organisational and ceo challenges, cio and it need to look into new technology
capabilities and solutions to optimise, redefine and/or transform current processes and
operating models. and to successfully manage these business transitions in the new digital
age, cio and it require a deep understanding of business imperatives as well as the ability
to enable business agility and accelerate business performance.
Manage the technology
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• rising Business imperatives • enabling Business agility • accelerating Business performance
managing Business transitions
source: iDc asia/pacific c-suite Barometer 2015
1 chief marketing officer2 chief sales officer3 cX = customer experience
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every organisation will need to digitally transform in this new age.
Digital transformation (DX) is the continuous process by which enterprises drive disruptive changes in their external ecosystem via leveraging digital competencies. this innovative process leads to the creation of new business models, products and services that blend digital and physical as well as business and customer experience while improving operational and organisational performance.
Digital transformation
D X = D i g i t a l t w i n s * + D i g i t a l e X p e r i e n c e
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• enabling Business agility • accelerating Business performance
• managing Business transitions
rising Business imperatives
*Digital twins are the digital version of an organisation’s product/service portfolio
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leadershiptransformation
omni-experience transformation
informationtransformation
operating modeltransformation
Worksourcetransformation
The 5 dimensions
for the DX journey, cio and their business peers will need to transform 5 aspects of their organisation:
• enabling Business agility • accelerating Business performance
• managing Business transitions
rising Business imperatives
CxO’s rising digital priorities
Build deeper understanding of customers’
buying preferences
improve the quality and
response time of post-sales
services
Quickly bring to market new products and
services
Which of the following business imperatives are being driven by digital transformation of business processes and business model in your organisation?
b u s i n e s s i M p e r a t i v e s
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in india, australia and Japan, optimal
utilisation of resources to drive
cost down is one of the top 3 business
imperatives
optimisation, cost
source: iDc asia/pacific afa storage survey, July 2015 (n=709 for six country markets)
• enabling Business agility • accelerating Business performance
• managing Business transitions
rising Business imperatives
CxO’s rising digital priorities (con’t)
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Which approaches best describe your organisation’s strategy to leverage its digital information assets?
t o p s t r a t e g i e s
48.5%
Data delivered as a service for all facets of the business
61.8%
Data warehousing is used for
structured data; web/content management systems are
used for unstructured
data
75.5%
leveraging data discovery tools to extract content from
all sources and create business value through
analytics
What’s your approach to digital value realisation?
t o p a p p r o a c h e s
• enabling Business agility • accelerating Business performance
• managing Business transitions
rising Business imperatives
operation optimisation,
real-time orchestration of resources and
business model innovation
78.8%
Digital twins created for all company
offerings
69.5%
product enhancement and digital fulfillment
52.0%
source: iDc asia/pacific afa storage survey, July 2015 (n=709 for six country markets)
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With multi-core processors and io-hungry applications in today’s enterprise and web-scale organisations, the performance bottleneck has moved from the server to storage. the goal of flash is to deliver application acceleration through low latencies and high input/output operations per second (iops).
flash dramatically improves application performance and employee productivity, as well as test and development cycles. the gap between compute power and storage performance has widened thanks to the increasing adoption of server virtualisation, Big data analytics (BDa) and virtual desktop infrastructure (vDi) in industries like entertainment and media, healthcare, science, banking and finance and retail.
since hard disk drives (HDDs) cannot offer the necessary performance in terms of iops and latency for mission-critical workloads, flash-powered solutions are stepping up as a viable alternative.
Storage bottleneck
a l l - f l a s h a r r a y
an afa is defined as a network storage system that can only use flash media to meet performance and capacity requirements. afas are available based on both scale-up and scale-out designs and some products exhibit characteristics of both scale-up and scale-out. flash media options for these arrays include cfms and ssDs. cfm-based options use flash media that has not been packaged to appear as a standard drive but is instead housed on a custom-designed flash card. ssD-based options use standard, off-the-shelf ssDs.
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• accelerating Business performance
• managing Business transitions• rising Business imperatives
M a r k e t w a t c h
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All-Flash Array c u r r e n t a D o p t e r s
56%
respondents who are users of afa
16%
respondents who are testing/planning to deploy afa in the next 12 months
82% of respondents in china and 43% in Korea
are evaluating or planning to use afa in the next
12 months
australia, singapore and india have the highest current user pool. australia and singapore users are early adopters of 3rd platform
applications such as BDa and mobility. these adopters need disruption in their storage
infrastructure for agility, speed, performance and cost optimisation
a f a s t o r a g e n o w
of respondents have 10% to <20% of their total primary storage capacity deployed on afa36%
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• accelerating Business performance
• managing Business transitions• rising Business imperatives
How many terabytes of primary storage capacity is currently deployed on afas in your organisation across all facilities in the country?
< 10 TB
10 — < 25 TB
25 — < 50 TB
50 — < 100 TB
100 — < 500 TB
> 500 TB
47.9%
22.8%
16%
7.2%
2.3%
3.8%
source: iDc asia/pacific afa storage survey, July 2015 (n=709 for six country markets)
t o p r e a s o n s f o r a f a D e p l o y M e n t
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All-Flash Array (con’t)
t o p D r i v e r s f o r a f a a D o p t i o n
69% 68% 63%
reduce product
development cycles/quick-to-market
reduction in enterprise hardware
acquisition budget
support larger number of customers,
partners and suppliers
M a r k e t w a t c h
in singapore, performance bottleneck impacting business expansion is the #3 driver
in india, new channels of delivery and engagement (ecommerce/mcommerce) is the #2 driver
M a r k e t w a t c h
reduction in power and cooling energy cost is a key reason in australia (#2), Japan (#3) and Korea (#3)
a close 4th reason (41%) is reduction in power costs
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• managing Business transitions• rising Business imperatives
increased scalability
56%
improved storage and application
administration automation
54%
increased utilisation of storage capacity
42%
source: iDc asia/pacific afa storage survey, July 2015 (n=709 for six country markets)
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All-Flash Array (con’t)
a p p l i c a t i o n s o n a f a
a v a i l a b i l i t y a n D p e r f o r M a n c e a r e k e y t h e M e s
app development
collaboration
Bi/data analytics
a s i a /p a c i f i c
a u s t r a l i a i n D i a J a p a n k o r e a c h i n a s i n g a p o r e
app development
email/messaging
Batchprocessing
Biz apps
app development
collaboration
Bi/data analytics
collaboration
app development
collaboration
Bi/data analytics
email/messaging
app development
collaboration
Bi/data analytics
app development
collaboration
Batchprocessing
99.999% availability is the #1 feature/function in the selection of afa
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• accelerating Business performance
• managing Business transitions• rising Business imperatives
source: iDc asia/pacific afa storage survey, July 2015 (n=709 for six country markets)
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All-Flash Array (con’t)
t e c h n o l o g y s e l e c t i o n c r i t e r i a
74% 68% 63%
ease of management
– self-tuning and self-service operations
easy to replicate, back-up,
archive and restore
primary data
ability to create pool of storage resources
i n s i g h t
afa will be a cornerstone of the cloud journeys undertaken by asia/pacific organisations in the coming years
M a r k e t w a t c h
in-line storage optimisation features and technologies are ranked #3 in australia, Korea, china and singapore
M a r k e t w a t c h
in Korea, the #3 most important criterion is incumbent primary storage array vendor
in singapore, the #2/#3 (tie) most important criterion is recommendation by industry peers
v e n D o r s e l e c t i o n c r i t e r i a
leading technology benchmarks during evaluation process
strong recommendation by technology partner — si, isv, var or corporate reseller
market ranking/leadership in afa segment69%
75%
source: iDc asia/pacific including Japan Quarterly Disk storage systems tracker, Q1 2015
t o p a f a v e n D o r
is #1 in the asia/pacific afa market
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• accelerating Business performance
• managing Business transitions• rising Business imperatives
source: iDc asia/pacific afa storage survey, July 2015 (n=709 for six country markets)
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Performanceu s a g e f o r a f a c o n f i D e n c e f o r a f a
89%56%
lack of automation
60%
increasing application service level demands
54%
rising complexity
M a r k e t w a t c h
storage sprawl/heterogeneity
is the #1 operational challenge
in australia
in singapore, the top 2 challenges are application performance
bottlenecks and storage sprawl/heterogeneity
in china, lack of it-led
business innovation is the #3
operational challenge
respondents who are “moderately to very confident in exploiting afa technology to generate significant business innovation today or in the future”
58.5%63.5% 58%
M o s t c o n f i D e n t M a r k e t s
china, singapore and australia are the most confident in exploiting afa to generate significant business innovation
• managing Business transitions• rising Business imperatives• enabling Business agility
accelerating Business performance
What are some of the operational challenges that you experience in your existing storage environment that you want afa to potentially solve?
source: iDc asia/pacific afa storage survey, July 2015 (n=709 for six country markets)
Performance (con’t)
a f a b e c o M i n g a r e a l i t y
l e a D i n g b e n e f i t sWhen will all-flash datacentre become a reality for all active workloads in your datacentre?
75%
under 5 years
18%
under 2 years
23%25%29%
singapore, india and australia have the highest number of
respondents who foresee going all-flash within 2 years
When considering the high-performance requirements of the 3rd computing platform and the confluence of technologies around flash that are bringing its effective cost down for many enterprise-class offerings, the benefits of flash deployment are clear.
the secondary economic benefits of broad flash deployment within an enterprise are:
• far fewer devices required to meet storage performance requirements
• lower energy and floor space costs
• fewer servers required to drive storage performance
• lower software licensing costs (because of fewer servers needed)
they create a compelling total cost of ownership (tco) story against which HDD-only systems cannot compete.
l e a D i n g b e n e f i t s o f f l a s h
• allowing data to be shared and accessed across functions quickly
• Delivering faster/real-time insights to turn data into decision making power and new monetisation opportunities
• minimising latency with greater data volume and more user accessibility
• increasing the green footprint of datacentre through physical space, heat and noise reduction
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• managing Business transitions• rising Business imperatives• enabling Business agility
accelerating Business performance
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• managing Business transitions• rising Business imperatives• enabling Business agility
accelerating Business performance
transforming your data centre can totally change your business and storage is key to accelerating the whole process. Databases and analytics. Business applications. Hybrid cloud. mixed workloads. everything.
360° it consolidation and optimisation drives agility across your entire organisation. you’re able to respond, react and succeed in ways that were once, frankly, impossible.
How? With Xtremio. the world’s #1, totally purpose-built, scale out, all-flash array powered by intel processors.
c r e a t e t r u e a g i l i t y f o r y o u r w o r k l o a D s
INFRASTRUCTURE consistent, sub-millisecond, linear scale-out performance
APPLICATIONS simple self-service for infrastructure and application teams
BUSINESS up to 50% lower opeX and capeX
Performance (con’t)
a n D D o t h e s a M e f o r y o u r b u s i n e s s
Xtremio delivers not just the fastest, most reliable afa in the industry but also offers patented technology that delivers three revolutionary storage breakthroughs:
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accelerating Business performance
The checklist
t h e e n t e r p r i s e f l a s h - o p t i M i s e D a r c h i t e c t u r e c o n s i D e r a t i o n c h e c k l i s t
High availability including native replication and integrated backup
true linear consistent performance with sub-millisecond latency regardless of scale
in-line all-the-time application and data services including thin provisioning, high availability, data reduction, encryption and in-memory writeable snapshots
ease of management, plug-n-play optimisation, agile copy services and seamless capacity growth
enabling agility through consolidating mixed workloads and accelerating workflows
common management, orchestration and provisioning tools across platforms
application integration and automated workflows (eg. oracle, sap, exchange, vmWare, openstack, Hyper-v)
capeX and opeX savings of over 50% compared to their traditional storage silos
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