managing microsoft applications with vistara

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Copyright © 2013, Vistara Inc. All Rights Reserved Vistara Confidential The IT Operations Cloud

Managing Modern IT

Simplify Management of Microsoft

Applications

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Platform/Cloud Integrations

• HQ in San Jose, CA

• Enables modern IT model

• IT is a service provider

• Internal and external customers

• Using internal and external services

• Comprehensive SaaS solution for

modern IT operations management

• Unify IT operations

• Manage public & private clouds

• Deliver self-service IT

• Over 1000 customers and over 100

service providers use Vistara today

• Strong channel distribution –

distributors, VARs, SIs, MSPs

• Multi-tenant, multi-tier SaaS

solution to support tiers of partners

• Extensive integration to industry-

leading point tools and technologies

Who We Are Our Customers

Distributors, VARs, & MSPs

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The reality is that Microsoft applications are deployed in many architectures

The Legacy

Physical, virtual and cloud continue environments continue to expand

Virtualization

VM VM

App App

App App

App APP

App APP APP

Servers

Virtualization VM VM VM

Private Cloud Public Cloud Physical Devices

Switch Router

Bring Your Own Device

Virtualized

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… And across all these types of deployments, we still need to manage the whole operations lifecycle.

Current Environment

Platforms enable management of physical, virtual and cloud elements, individually but not across the entire IT enterprise

Virtualization

VM VM

App App

App App

App APP

App APP APP

Servers

Virtualization VM VM VM

Private Cloud Public Cloud Physical Devices

Switch Router


Virtualized

Inventory and Governance

Service Delivery

Monitor and Manage

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Application Service Management is a Cycle

Service Definition

Service Monitoring

Service Management

Service Operation

Communication

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Microsoft Applications - Operation

Create and Manage Proper Backups

Review Policy

Manage Storage Requirement

Review Quotas

Tune Memory Requirements

Review Queues

Patching

Antivirus

Audit and Compliance

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The Servers Are ½ Of Any Microsoft Application

How Do You Define Success?

Desktops and Mobile Devices

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Router

• Everyone is an administrator of something

• Your data is… Anywhere

• Even the best IT organizations wind up using multiple tools

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Microsoft Applications - Communication

Incident

Problem

Change

Approvals

Dashboard

Alerting

Escalation

Dispatch

Run Book

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Sometimes, The Tools Become The Problem

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Reality

• Truth: You will have more than one set of tools

• Truth: Time is wasted “Application Hopping”

• Truth: Application hopping makes us blind

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Unify Management

• Centralize service delivery and save time and money • Reduce “Application Hopping” • Aggregate knowledge • Share your wisdom

• Runbook Automation • Keep the tools you love • Save money: obsolete “shelfware”

and tools you don’t like • Pay for what you use

• But don’t spend your time integrating other peoples software if you don’t have to!

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The Benefits

Save 20% By Not Hopping

• Level 1 and Level 2 IT staff account for 80% or the reportable outcomes in IT!

• Centralize operations activities onto one platform, and gain one source of truth.

• Software upgrades itself • More secure • More scalable • Pay for what you use

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Why Vistara

• Manage Microsoft Applications in One Pane of Glass

– Physical and virtual infrastructure

– Network

– Software

• Server side

• Client side

– Communication

– Governance

• One Source of Truth

• No Application Hopping

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Vistara Architecture

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