Virtualization 101: Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With VMware

Editor's Notes

• #16: We are uniquely qualified to support customers’ journey to the new era of IT, given our clear leadership in virtualization – the foundation for cloud computing architectures. Through innovation, and by challenging the status quo, VMware has become central to the IT transformation wave taking place in small to large global enterprises, fueling continual growth and investment in further product development.
• #17: This is why VMware continues to lead the market in both technology and market share, as cited by Gartner, the most respected analyst firm in the IT industry.
• #19: Enabling our Customers:To better servetheir customersFreeing up time and money By Simplifying and Automating IT:InfrastructureProvide efficient, evolutionary path forward for existing and future appsReplacing management wherever possible with automationDevelopmentEnabling new applications, across cloudsNew ways to workEnabling the multi-device, mobile eraIn the Cloud Era:“IT-as-a-service”: Enabling everything to be used with the simplicity of a service, securely, delivered off or on premise
• #21: These are our 3 core focus areas – Cloud Infrastructure and ManagementCloud Application PlatformEnd-User ComputingWe are delivering a broad technology and services portfolio to transform how customers build, deliver and consume applications in the Post-PC, cloud era.
• #23: We are not in this alone, and in fact have invested heavily since our inception in building out a comprehensive ecosystem of partners to support our customers’ needs. Collectively, we bring the expertise, technology, and services to help every customer achieve their full IT potential.
• #33: SLIDE: What is vSphere?VMware vSphere is the industry’s leading virtualization platform. It provides a robust and complete platform for customers to easily virtualize their infrastructure and achieve infrastructure consolidation and CapEx and OpEx savings. vSphere also provides application high-availability and business continuity by intelligently backing up virtual machines, optimizing IT resources and detecting hardware failures. And vSphere makes managing your virtual infrastructure simple with powerful management tools, like vCenter Operations Management Suite and browser-based management with VMware Go.vSphere provides a powerful solution to address customers’ business continuity/disaster recovery requirements, high-availability and SLAs for mission-critical applications. The consolidation, automation, HA and security benefits of vSphere also help simplify IT operations. And with your applications virtualized with vSphere you’re in a position to migrate applications to the cloud if you so choose or build your own private cloud.
• #39: The impact to IT can be characterized in 3 categories of resource savings – financial, human, and the earth’s. The first category, Financial Resources, is what attracts most people to virtualization in the beginning – server consolidation. For example, VMware customers have seen on average a 50 to 60 percent cost reduction in server hardware when leveraging VMware technology. Of even bigger impact for some is the ability to delay costly datacenter expansion, because of the reclaimed floor space, power and cooling as a result of these consolidation efforts. The second category is Human Resources, or staff labor. This is all about shifting their focus away from managing hardware, to spending time on business needs. A study of our highly virtualized customer base showed that on average these customers were spending one-third less time on routine administrative tasks in IT operations due to virtualization and the automation achieved with it. That’s a third of your day, everyday, in return capacity. And finally, the Earth’s Resources, which contributes literally to green initiatives. Virtualization in the datacenter has shown the ability to save up to 80% in energy costs. The result of all of these savings can now be applied to the business. And with advances in automation and self-service enablement, IT can dramatically increase its responsiveness to the business.
• #40: The savings that come from hardware cost are pretty clear, so let’s look at annual costs of running your servers.If your cost per server is $4,000, that’s $40K a year. If you consolidate this to three servers, that’s $28 in savings.This represents a conservative consolidation ratio (~3:1) typically we see ratios around 8~10.
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• #61: Customer website: http://centaurfundservices.com/Customer Case Study: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/customers/10Q2_css_Centaur_UK.pdf?src=WWW_customers_10Q2_css_Centaur_UK.pdfEstablished in 2009, Centaur Fund Services is a fast growing hedge fund administrator providing services to the hedge fund industry. Having worked across a number of larger enterprises in their former careers, the founders of Centaur recognized the importance of IT to their company. Anticipating significant future growth they wanted a ‘future-proof’ IT infrastructure that would give them the flexibility to grow, without a significant initial investment. Establishing a highly resilient IT infrastructure was also crucial as they could not afford to experience downtime, especially while building a reputation with new clients.
• #62: Customer website: http://threadneedle.com/Customer Case Study: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/customers/EMEA_10Q1_uk_cs_Threadneedle_UK.PDF?src=WWW_customers_EMEA_10Q1_uk_cs_Threadneedle_UK.PDFThreadneedle is an award-winning global asset manager, providing investment solutions to institutional and retail clients across the globe. It actively manages £59bn of assets (as at December 2009) from equities and bonds to property and alternative investments. Founded in 1994, Threadneedle is fully-owned by Ameriprise Financial, a publicly quoted investment company that is listed on the NYSE.