Data Center Operational Efficiency

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Welcome to our webinar

Stephen Saunders

Managing Director

The IT Services Site

Today’s Featured Speakers

Margaret Dings

Vice President, Services Industry Consulting Group

IDC

Nancy Galietti

Vice President of Information Technology

National Football League

Jeanette Horan

Vice President and Chief Information Officer

IBM

Steve Sams

Vice President, Site and Facility Services

IBM

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Data center operational efficiency best practices Enabling increased new project spending by improving data center efficiency

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One in five, or 21%, of clients have highly efficient data centers—and are allocating 50% more of their IT budget to new projects

How much of your IT budget

is spent on:

35%

65%

Basic

data

centers

Strategic

data

centers

New projects

Maintain existing

infrastructure

47%

Improving data center operational efficiency allows spending to go to:

6

53%

• Improving public safety or

providing more citizen services

• Transforming core banking and

payment systems

• Implementing smart grids or

improving generation performance

• Allocating funds to other business

priorities

New projects

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Optimize the IT and

facilities assets to maximize

capacity and availability

Design for flexibility to

support changing business

needs

Use automation tools to

improve service levels and

availability

Have a plan that aligns with

the business goals and

keep it current

Characteristics of highly efficient data centers

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48%

93% 92%

27%21%

14%

Leaders have moved beyond consolidation to high levels of virtualization for server, storage and network environments

Asset optimization: virtualization is table stakes

Leaders have 2.5x more servers managed per administrator (27 versus 10). They have higher virtual machine densities of 8.2 versus 4.5 VM’s per server

Percent of servers virtualized

Use storage virtualization Use data deduplication technologies

Basic Strategic

Optimization

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90%

46% 45% 47%

21%

8%

31%

9%

Leaders design for flexibility, with optimal levels of availability and redundancy in their IT and facilities infrastructure

Design for flexibility…and minimize disruption to operations

Business resilience for IT is increasingly essential to address new regulations, security threats and service outages; leaders are using more sophisticated methods.

Upgrade mechanical /

electrical equipment without

disruption

Primary data center

replicated with active-active

Replication used for

storage backup

Basic Strategic

Network architected to

flexibility introduce new services

Flexibility

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58%

87%

30% 31%

1% 3% 3% 0%

Leaders employ higher levels of automation to offload manual tasks, reduce error rates and meet service level agreements

Automation provides flexibility to improve availability

Over 30% of leaders have implemented self-service portals to provision virtual machines, with 80% of leaders planning them by 2013 to support cloud computing

Move virtual machines to meet SLA’s

Implemented a storage service catalog

Network services are automatically provisioned

Basic Strategic

Monitor thermal conditions

Automation

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86%

62%

75%

31%

43%

27%

9%

21%

Leaders adopt and refresh technology faster

Have a plan – don't wait to adopt new technology

Basic Strategic

Leaders value faster migration of workloads to new technology and integration into existing service management processes

First and fast technology adoption

Plan to implement

converged

infrastructure

Planned growth rate in server virtualization in the

next year (mean response)

Refresh technology within 12-23 months

Planning

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68%

25%

77%

33%

53%

0%

14%

2%

Leaders use fact-based planning to be more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing needs

Forecast to be flexible to the business needs

Basic Strategic

Good design is an insurance policy that provides flexibility to support new technology. Vendor and technology tradeoffs can reduce total data center costs 15 – 30%.

Build capacity in smaller increments

Forecast space

(10 to 20 years)

Forecast power demand

Implement low and high density zones

Planning

Questions? Please submit your questions now

Margaret Dings

Vice President, Services Industry Consulting Group

IDC

Nancy Galietti

Vice President of Information Technology

National Football League

Jeanette Horan

Vice President and Chief Information Officer

IBM

Steve Sams

Vice President, Site and Facility Services

IBM

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