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Presentation To
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Mission
Think Dynamics is in the business of automating the management of data center resources thereby enabling senior IT executives to reduce costs, improve service levels, increase business/IT alignment and enhancing agility
We do this by automating and accelerating
three key practices:
– Capacity management
– Service level management
– Automated environment provisioning
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Feedback from customers
The top issues we hear from CIOs and other senior IT executives facing the organization today are:
• Utility Computing
• Server Consolidation
• Disaster Recovery
• Capacity-on-Demand
• High Availability
• Testing environments
• Automated provisioning
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Product Offering & Capabilities
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Problem: Just-in-case provisioning
• Average Resource utilization of only 20%• High Cost of servers, software and maintenance• Unpredictable services levels • Reactive IT staff and human error• Disconnect between IT spending and business goals• traditional manual systems administration practices have prevented a more efficient method
of provisioning application infrastructure…….until now
Data centers typically deploy large infrastructures of isolated over-capacity
Resulting in:
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Solution: Just-in-time provisioning
Capacity Management
•Measure Infrastructure Performance
•Measure Application Performance
•Analyze & Predict Application Resource Requirements
Service Level Management
Define data center & application service levels
Measure application service levels
Report on application service level compliance
Prevent application service level breach
Manage contention for resources between applications
Infrastructure Provisioning
Complete N-tier application environments
Server Provisioning
OS / Package Provisioning
Application Software Provisioning
Network Configuration & Provisioning
Cluster / array provisioning
What Think Control offers is:
•works with YOUR best-practices•works with your existing network and storage infrastructure•not disruptive to existing applications
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Product Requirements
• Think Server Requirements
– Hardware
• 2 servers (3 servers for HA)• CPU - UltraSparc-Iie 500 MHz or PIII1 Ghz (fast, modern CPU)• Memory – 500 MB Minimum, 1 GB preferred• Operating system – Solaris 8, Windows 2000, RedHat Linux 7.2
– Software
• Oracle 8i Standard Edition (8.1.7 R2)• BEA Weblogic License
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Platform Support
• Network devices– Switches: Cisco, Extreme, Foundry– Load Balancers: Cisco, Alteon, F5– Firewalls: Cisco
• Hardware– Compaq Proliant, Compaq Blades, IBM, Sun, Dell, HP Blade Server, RLX,
Cubix
• Operating Systems– Win2K, Solaris, AIX, Linux (Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake)
• Web Servers– IIS, Apache
• Application Servers– WebSphere, WebLogic, Resin, JRun
• Databases– Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL
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Thank you!