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Juan Beetge, News UKAlain Geenrits, Blue Medora
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Hot off the press: News UK simplifies SDDC management
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Meet your speakers
SIMPLIFYING THE
SDDC
Juan Beetge
Senior Storage and Compute Manager
News UK
Alain Geenrits
Director Solution Architects EMEA
Blue Medora
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Deploy an intelligent operations
platform with a single view of the
entire stack.
Operationalise
Tap into the vROps analytics
engine and machine learning
capabilities using a
comprehensive data set.
Analyse
Move from a heterogenous stack
to a converged infrastructure.
Modernise
Step 2 Step 3Step 1
Three Steps to Simplifying the SDDCAGENDA
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About Us
NEWS
UK
4000+EMPLOYEES
1.8mNEWSPAPERS
EACH DAY
15+BRANDS
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Team
200+ Technology Staff
75 Infrastructure &
Operations Team
Content management
system and specific
editorial and workflow
applications
About our IT
NEWS
UK
Virtual Machines
Nearly 1,500 VMs
Applications Databases
50 in total
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Downtime ondeadlines
The challenge
16.5Average hours
downtime a month
15Average P2
incidents
a month
#1: Modernise
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• vRealize Operations
• VMware vSphere
• FlexPod solution
• Cisco UCS servers
• NetApp storage
• Cisco Nexus switches
• Citrix Netscaler load balancers
Infrastructure NetworkVirtualisation
Our solution: modernise
STEP
1
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Full-stack visibility
The challenge
#2: Operationalise
4+Tools to navigate
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Especially powerful with combining: custom reports,
dashboards and alerts.
Includes VMware monitoring
Deep out-of-the-box VMware monitoring.
Implemented IT Operational Analytics
Working on reclaiming up to 20% of resources, using
accurate analytics to right-size our environment.
Covers hybrid-cloud
Extensible platform allows for monitoring across
hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
Our solution: vRealize Suite with True VisibilityStep 2
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Keeping thePresses running
The challenge
14Tier-1 applications
1hrRecovery Time
Objective
3hrChange Window
Mon - Thu
#3: Analyze
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Our solution: use vROps to analyze and act
Combine multiple symptoms to
show actual use
Recommendations to resolve
the issue
Automated actions available
Symptoms not limited to badges:
any object, any metric
Step 3
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Reduced average downtime by 95%
Improved MTTR, by monitoring different layers at once.
Due to improved capacity planning, eliminating nearly £3 million in
storage maintenance costs over four years, with the overall estimated 4-
year cost savings at more than £6 million.
Headline resultsNews UK
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ABOUT USLaser-focused on platform extensions
for 9+ years.
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Applications
Data
Cloud & Virtualization
Infrastructure
Aggregate and Analyze Across the Entire StackBLUE MEDORA AND VREALIZE OPERATIONS
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• VMware signs on as an
investor in Blue Medora’s
Series A funding.
• A VMware representative
joins the board.
• Blue Medora joins
VMware’s TAP.
• Work begins on first
vRealize plugins.
2014
JAN 2015
1H 2016
SEPT 2016
VMware Relationship Continues to GrowBLUE MEDORA
• Blue Medora realigns
GTM from individual
management packs, to
tiered “True Visibility
Suites.”
• True Visibility Suite
packages are built to
align with vRealize
categories.
• VMware and Blue
Medora launch a joint
reseller agreement.
• The True Visibility Suite
is added to VMware price
lists (Model N – SKUs).
APR 2017
• Blue Medora joins the
VMware vCloud Air
Network Program.
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Databases Network & Compute
Extending vRealize Operations BLUE MEDORA
Enterprise Applications
√
Virtualization Storage
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CALMING THE STORM:
HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTSGreg Hohertz
Principal Solution Architect
Demo
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CALMING THE STORM:
HOW TO MINIMIZE IT ALERTSGreg Hohertz
Principal Solution Architect
Q&A
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