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Cancer Center Achieves Agility with Cloud Infrastructure Built on IBM System Storage

Rich de MichelethinkASG

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Enterprise IT Consulting company driven by

a passion to Create Clients for Life.

We help align technology with the goals and objectives of the business.

21+ years as IBM Elite Partner

Who We Are

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Begins to Deliver IT as a Service

Focus on the Outcome, not the Infrastructure

Flexibility, Capacity, Security, Cost, Open

Why Cloud?

Easier is better, right?

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Unique consulting process called yourBusiness.

yourCloud – Where to put my workloads/apps

yourData – Unlock ways to better manage my business data

yourSupport – Is everything I need to run my business supported

yourMobility – Support my expanding mobile workforce

yourSecurity – Is my business protected

Our Approach

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What do these have in common?

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What do these have in common?

They allow you to Set It and Forget It

Automation

IBM Virtualization and Easy Tier

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Customer Case Studies

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IBM Cloud Storage Case Study examples

• Cancer Center• Fortune 10 customer• Healthcare• Manufacturing• Media and Entertainment• Automotive• Finance• Genomics• Distribution

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Pre-IBM Infrastructure snapshot

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Pre-IBM IT Challenges

• Not ‘Cloud Ready’

• Lack of Tier 1 for mission critical applications

• Terrible Performance – latency & IOPs

• Complexity

• Uptime/reliability

• Zero Agility

• Cost of Management

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yourBusiness solution objectives

• Seek out new infrastructure with the following criteria• Cloud Ready

– Agility– Accessibility– Provision, don’t procure

• Reliability – Enterprise class data availability & protection• Failure Protection – Ability to recover from single component failure• Simplicity of Management • Performance• Scalability

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IBM Cloud Technologies

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Private Cloud Enabling Technologies:IBM SVC SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center• EasyTier• HA/DR Replication Ready Infrastructure

IBM XIV• Cost and speed is unparalleled • true Grid Technology

IBM FlashSystem Storage• Ultra fast, lowest latency• EMR, Database and Enterprise Applications on IBM Tier

0 (FlashSystem)

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End State Vision

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XIV

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IBM Cloud Delivered Benefits

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• Elasticity – The Private Cloud solution enables client to scale their infrastructure on-demand to quickly meet new requirements, challenges and growth.

• Self-Provisioning – users and researchers have the ability to Self-Provision compute and storage resources On-Demand.  This delivers a speed to business requirements in minutes vs. days/weeks/months.  Researchers are now able to execute and provision resources immediately and at anytime.

• Ubiquitous Access – Secure access anytime, anywhere and from any device.

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IBM Cloud Delivered Benefits

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• Security – All the benefits of the Cloud while still retaining 100% control for security and compliance purposes.

• Cost – The new Private Cloud solution is delivering greater than a 70% compression ratio, which significantly reduced the amount of storage needed thus lowering the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

• Performance – The new virtualized storage system is providing <1ms access and 500K+ IOPS thanks to Easy Tier and all-flash array for frequently accessed data.

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Consulting Partner

• Don’t do it alone and reinvent the wheel. Engage an expert partner with deep experience.

• thinkASG spends the time up front to really understand what your vision, goals and restrictions are before designing anything.

• We are focused on our customers and how to make them more successful.

Thank YouRich de MichelethinkASG714-514-6109rich@thinkasg.com