enabling a dynamic it infrastructure
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Reducing IT Cost and Complexity via Grid, SOA & Virtualization
Enabling a Dynamic IT Infrastructure
The Situation: Look Familiar?
IT Architecture Challenges
Application infrastructure silos lead to:• Poor server and storage
utilization• Higher maintenance costs• Difficulty adapting to changing
needs• A struggle meeting SLAs• Inability to scale as data
grows
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Trends Address Challenges
The Dynamic IT Infrastructure
• Consolidate and poolhardware resources
• Leverage virtualization
technologies
• Use SOA to integrate and automate business processes
Increased flexibility & higher availability at reduced costs
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• Standardize and consolidate infrastructure
• Pool and share software, servers, and storage
• Dynamic resource provisioning
• Automated monitoring & management
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Service Oriented Applications
Management
Handle Changing Workloads with Grid Computing
• Abstraction of resources
• Decouple the physical hardware from the operating system
• Deliver greater resource utilization and flexibility
Improve Scalability and Utilization with Virtualization
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What is SOA?
• Evolution of distributed computing
• Application functions are modularized and presented as services
• Services are loosely coupled– Service interface is independent of the
implementation
SOA
Functionality DrivenFunctionality Driven
Long development cyclesLong development cycles
Tightly CoupledTightly Coupled
Application SpecificApplication Specific
Designed to lastDesigned to last
Object OrientedObject Oriented
Traditional Architecture
Process OrientedProcess Oriented
Iterative developmentIterative development
Loosely CoupledLoosely Coupled
HeterogeneousHeterogeneous
Designed for changeDesigned for change
Message OrientedMessage Oriented
SOA: A Paradigm Shift
More agile IT systems that can be adapted to change faster 38%
More reuse of IT 36%
End users have access to more relevant business information in real time
30%
Shortened application development cycle 29%More efficient business partner collaboration 24%Automation of otherwise manual business processes 24%
End users are using fewer application interfaces to accomplish the same task
23%
Other 2%None 2%Too early to tell/still in planning stage 2%Don’t know 23%
Benefits of SOA
Source: InfoWorld survey, July 2006
Increased Agility and Reduced Costs
"The virtualization and automation of applications presents organizations with a tremendous opportunity to consolidate workloads, reduce operational costs, and adapt more quickly to changing customer requirements and industry demands … the organizations that move to a robust, scalable adaptive computing platform first can gain a competitive advantage."
Grid + Virtualization + SOA =
Dynamic IT Infrastructure
Jean S. Bozman, Vice President IDC's Global Enterprise Solutions Group
The Dynamic IT Infrastructure
Blueprint for Success
The Dynamic IT Infrastructure
Increased flexibility and agility at reduced costs
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Key Factors to Consider
• Standardization and consolidation• Grid computing capabilities • Virtualization technologies• Support for SOA
Storage
Storage is the foundation of a dynamic IT infrastructure
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• Easy Provisioning• Dynamic Scaling• High Availability• Simplified Data
Management• Improved Productivity
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Optimized use of cost effective blade server technology
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• Optimize Resource Utilization
• Increase Quality of Service
• Reduce TCO
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Database and Middleware
Develop SOA using comprehensive software
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• Interoperability• Comprehensive
lifecycle support• Performance and
scalability• Standards-based
Grid + Virtualization + SOA = Dynamic IT Infrastructure
Real and available today Dramatically improves resource utilization Significantly improves availability Scales with your data growth Enhances business agility Improves staff productivity Reduces costs
The Dynamic IT Infrastructure
“Enterprises with higher profitability over the long term have greater IT infrastructure capability than less successful competitors.”
Source: Accenture and MIT IT Center for Information Systems Research, 2006
Next Steps
• Start with a single project• Standardize and consolidate
• Low cost blade servers • Unified storage
• Improve utilization with virtualization• Use a dynamic infrastructure to support your
SOA goals
Thank You