joe honan virtualization trends
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VirtualizationTrends Building the “v-enabled” organization…
About Janalent
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• 500+ successful engagements on 5 continents • Key Partnerships
• Microsoft Field Managed Gold Certified Partner • Quest Software Elite Global “go to” Managed Partner • NetApp Platinum “go to” Global Managed Partner
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Experience
Broad Sector & Industry Success Over 4 Million Users / Mailboxes to date Deployments on five continents Over 500 customers in all industries Recognized with global awards
Recognition • Microsoft Global Partner of the Year Finalist 2008 • Microsoft Regional Partner Award Winner FY 2009 Q1 & Q2 • Awarded 7 Advanced Competencies, 12 specializations
• Advanced Infrastructure Solutions • Network Infrastructure Solutions • Information Worker Solutions • Unified Communication Solutions • Security Solutions • Mobility Solutions • Small Business Solutions
• Over 4 Million accounts & mailboxes deployed/migrated • Award winning Global Directory Design & Implementation • Quest Software Platinum Elite partner, globally-managed • NetApp Platinum partner, globally-managed • Go-To partner for Microsoft, MCS, Quest, NetApp, & others
• Even though revenues decrease… …expectations of IT increase
• Tensions: – Performance versus cost – Security versus mobility – Innovation versus reliability and continuity – Flexibility versus control – Computing growth versus pressure to improve
environmental sustainability
IT – trends and challenges
IT Manager Pain Points
Challenge: • Application
incompatibilities
Challenge: • Server siloing
Challenge: • Underutilized hardware • Excessive power
consumption • Expensive space across
data center or branch office
“…costs are too high…”
“…can’t meet my SLAs…”
Challenge: • Providing disaster recovery for business continuity for operating systems and applications
Challenge: • Planned and unplanned downtime affecting server uptime
“…systems can’t scale quick enough..”
Challenge: Inability to respond quickly to changing needs at desktops and the datacenter
• Server Utilization
• Service Levels
• Flexibility and Agility
• Security
• Legacy Application Support
• Performance
Ability to Increase Ability to Decrease
Why is everyone talking about Virtualization?
• Downtime
• Admin and Maintenance
• Hardware Costs
• Provisioning Effort
• Staffing
• Dev and Testing Time
Saves $ & Sends the right Message
Analyst Perspectives
“On average, respondents have virtualized 24% of their servers today and plan to have 48% virtualized in two years.”
“Virtualization of the PC has even more potential than server virtualization… it is going to be much bigger... This will help change the paradigm of desktop computer management in organizations.”
What are analysts saying?
“Consolidation, virtualization, and provisioning are the three hottest trends in servers today. If you haven’t consolidated yet… if you haven’t virtualized your computing resources… and if you haven’t learned how to provision your systems and storage—you’re needlessly wasting your precious operating budget!”
—Joe Clabby, Clabby Analytics
Virtualization Adoption
Competition Realities
So… What is Virtualization? Virtualization is a technique for abstracting the physical characteristics of computing
resources from the way other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources.
Sales & Marketing Application
Operating System
Corporate Wide Application
Operating System
Engineering Application
Operating System
Accounting Application
Operating System
Host Servers Storage Mgmt. Servers Network
Virtual Infrastructure
Server Virtualization - Resources
Departmental / Legacy Applications
Specialized Applications
Linux / Unix
Corporate Applications
Line of Business Applications
Other Vendor OS
Data Center to the Desktop
Consolidate workloads for more efficient
resource utilization
Create an additional isolated OS
environment on a standard desktop
Decouple applications from desktop operating systems and deliver on
demand
Centralize processing and data storage; present the user interface locally
The other side of the story
“Virtualization without good management is more dangerous than not using virtualization in the first place...”
Thomas Bittman, Analyst, Gartner
Virtualization Key Points
• No need for “religious” discussion between MS and VMWare
• Virtualization saves $, but can expose vulnerabilities
• Holistic management is the key to administration
• MSFT desktop to datacenter strategy is the smart bet
• Drive cost out of IT using Virtualization
• Enables IT as a service • Scales for most companies
(small to large enterprise) • Failures are now catastrophes,
w/out the right mgmt, plan, and architecture
Deploy Design Analyze Measure Assess
Key Take Aways…
Janalent Virtualization Solution Set
