(True) Converged Infrastructure – How to transform your challenge into business outcomes ?
Romain JONCOUR – LANexpert
Julien DAUCOURT – State of Jura
Sylvain RAGAB – Swisscom
June 2015
>(R)evolution
> Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value to business
> State of Jura: Business & Specificities
> From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Q/A & Discussion
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Our World is Changing (really) Fast
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(R)evolution
Something has changed the rules
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(R)evolution
The world’s largest accommodation
provider, owns no real estate
The world’s most popular media
owner, creates no content
The world’s largest taxi
company, owns no vehicles
The most valuable
retailer, has no inventory
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> Hyper Digitalization
– Cloud
– Big Data / Analytics
– IoT
– Social Media
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> Digital Darwinism era
– “It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
Darwin
– “Digital Darwinism shows the phenomenon appearing when technologies and society evolve faster that capacity to adapt”
Brian Solis
> Nothing better than example
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February 1997
28B$
January 2012
Bankrupt
August 2012
1B$
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> Need to Reinvent our Business
– By leveraging value of (legacy) data
– By accelerating Cloud Adoption
– By deploying automation Software Layer
– By redefining core Applications
– By using social media as new value creation vector
(R)evolution
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Business
Infrastructure
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(R)evolution
Infrastructure
Business
> (R)evolution
>Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value to business
> State of Jura: Business & Specificities
> From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Q/A & Discussion
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> Today’s IT
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Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value to business
> Today’s IT
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Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value
IT BUDGET
70% 20% 10%
New hardware investments
New software investments
Maintaining operations cost
Compute Storage Network Virtualization Application
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Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value
> Today’s IT
New Application / Infrastructure Deployment
Virtualization
Server
Storage
Network
SW
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- Test - Operate - Update
- Test - Operate - Update
- Test - Operate - Update
- Test - Operate - Update
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Innovation
Maintenance
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Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value
> Tomorrow’s IT
New Application / Infrastructure Deployment
Virtualization
Server
Storage
Network
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Maintenance
Innovation
VCE Vision Intelligent Operations
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Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value
> Tomorrow’s IT MANAGED
ENGINEERED
MANUFACTURED SUPPORTED
SUSTAINED
AS ONE PRODUCT AS ONE PRODUCT
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> Tomorrow’s IT
5X FASTER TIME FOR
NEW SERVICES
50% REDUCTION OF ANNUAL
DATA CENTER COSTS
4X FASTER TIME TO
DEPLOYMENT
96% REDUCTION IN
DOWN TIME
160 days down to 40
79% less staff effort
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> Tomorrow’s IT
69% Less vSphere Licenses
Almost 72% REDUCTION OF ANNUAL
DATA CENTER COSTS
59% Less Servers
From 122 to 50 ESX
Multi Workloads
From 196 to 60 licenses
69% less maintenance cost
Less RU, KWh, m2, etc.
Less Managed Services
Less Licenses maintenance cost
> (R)evolution
> Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value to business
>State of Jura: Business & Specificities
> From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Q/A & Discussion
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State of Jura Business & Specificities
> Specificities Overview
– 2 DC’s (40km far away)
– 2 ways owner Fiber Chanel between our DC’s
– more than 80 Remote Sites
– 75% users on our dark fiber, 25% DSL
– 250 Servers (80% virtualization rate)
– 50 physical / 200 vm’s
– 80 Tb Global Storage (NAS, SAN, excl. vBlock)
– 1’800 users (AD Accounts) but 1’200 simultaneous
– 1’600 Computers, 400 Laptops (before project)
– 30 FTE’s in our IT Team
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State of Jura Business & Specificities
> Technologies Overview
– Cisco WAN (renewed before VDI Start in 2013)
– Cisco MDS SAN Switches
– Cisco Wireless
– Nortel and Cisco VOIP (70/30)
– Juniper Firewalls
– EMC SAN CX4-240 and VNXe 3300
– ESX Infratructure based on vmware products
– Horizon, View, Mirage, ThinApp and AppVolume
– Microsoft AD, Exchange, SQL, SCOM, Oracle AIX, Linux Debian, Host
– Avamar Backup (with DataDomain)
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State of Jura Business & Specificities
> Sourcing Model
– A couple of Major projects but grow fast and well
– Network Migration (Nortel to Cisco)
– Directory Migration (Novell to Microsoft)
– DC Move
– Small Team
– Poor Knowhow on Specific Technologies intern, but Good Maturity Globaly with sourcing Model
– Externs technical skills mandatory
> (R)evolution
> Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value to business
> State of Jura: Business & Specificities
>From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Q/A & Discussion
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Meet business needs
> Users expectations
> Standardize and rationalize
> Mobility (in/out)
> Licenses cost optimization (concurrent users)
> Increase OS Migration Rhythm’s (EA)
> Management and Deployment Simplification
> Increase Security overall
> Decrease Downtime and reduce technical travel time
> Green IT
> Intern Study and VDI Assessment
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Traditional or Converged Infrastructure ? (Y2013)
> Time to reconsider the existing ?
> Choice for the future !
> Agility (grow fast and well)
> Avoid complexity
> No support ping pong (Sourcing Model)
> OPEX vs CAPEX
> VCE ADN
> Intern Study on the Converged Infratructure Thema !
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Converged Infrastructure Study (Y2013)
> SWOT
> Sales
> Market players
– vBlock, FlexPod, Dell vStart, Hitachi and HP
> Interests of the Model
– Fast deployment, better Availability, lower Cost and Less Staff
> Cost Distribution (CAPEX, OPEX)
> Try And Buy with LANexpert !
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Try And Buy with LANexpert
> 3 months duration
> VDI Test on vBlock Infratructure
> Fast Deployed Infrastructure
> One Day for the LCS Completion
> Less than 2 months and Infrastructure was Up and Running
> One week and VDI Infrastructure was Up and Running
> Converged Infrastructure and VDI Validated
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Our Project realities
> 1’000 migrated users
> 700 Wyse P25 “Thin clients” in use
> 300 Mirage Computers (PC’s and Laptops)
> 220 ThinApp Packages
> 150 Mirage Application’s Packages
> 3 Gold Images (standard, specific and learning)
> Police Migration about 100 users in a night (no user impact)
> 60% completed now, 75% end of july
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Capex (Global)
Infrastructure
56%
Licences
26%
Applications
Virtualisation
11%
Infrastructure
Support
4%
Learning
2%
Divers
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> OPEX (Global)
> Too early to tell about …
> New Operational mode “Converged”
> Optimization processes and people
> Maturity increasing
> Let’s be honest during project phase
> Incidents decreasing
> users satisfaction increasing
> Very good feeling
> Next step OPEX Optimization
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> VCE & Vblock Experience seamlessly
– Technical presales was good, completed by LanExpert
– Poor VCE Sales experience at the beginning (Y2012), but now pretty good
– Project side by LanExpert (no direct sales)
– Youth experience at the beginning and now very good
– Very good performance, no surprise
– VCE Support now good, lacked experience at the beginning
– follow the sun effect (cases transition)
– ping-pong effect, on the VDI Support side
– 8 Call’s opened, only for «optimization»
– Stability, no downtime
– Dedicated Customer Advocate
– Solution Monitoring, VisionIO now integrated
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From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
> Grow fast and easy (basic infrastructure)
> Stability, no downtime
> Software Upgrades during business hours (without downtime)
> RCM Upgrades, contractually !
> Cloud Ready
> The Major Complexity is to integrate the Convergence
– Processes and team (work together)
> Repeat ? Yes, Just do IT !
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Before Q/A…
> Cloud & Datacenter Services Overview
> (R)evolution
> Vblock: Born to change IT and deliver value to business
> State of Jura: Business & Specificities
> From State of Jura 1.0 to State of Jura 2.0
>Q/A & Discussion
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