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Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management

Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management. Mohamed Elrefai, Vice President Enterprise Solutions Group GTSI. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management. What is TLM?. A long-term, strategic methodology for acquiring, financing, and managing technology

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Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management

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  1. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management Mohamed Elrefai, Vice President Enterprise Solutions Group GTSI

  2. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management

  3. What is TLM? • A long-term, strategic methodology for acquiring, financing, and managing technology • Aligns technology, services, and management of the IT infrastructure to business objectives • Enables government agencies to realize the full benefit of the technology assets

  4. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management Identify and Assess • Decouple Application and End-User Requirements from Infrastructure • First Step Toward Optimization is to Build Baseline – Capacity Driven • Build Business Case – High Level Design • Anticipate costs and benefits • Build a Detailed Solution for the short and long term

  5. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management Technology Acquisition • Decouple IT Imperatives from Traditional Budget Constraints • Create a Performance Based Services Contract • Provision Capacity Based on Service Level Agreements

  6. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management Integrate and Implement • Traditional Integration Methods Apply • Re-host Legacy Applications • Tuning Consolidation Ratio and Server Utilization • Measuring Quality of Service • Tuning Application Specific Performance

  7. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management Support Services • Quarterly Audits – Capacity Driven • Retire more servers • Further Consolidation • Power and Cooling • Hosted Applications Assessment • Configuration Optimization • Ongoing onsite Engineer/Support • Backup and Restore • Maintenance • Break/fix Support • Synchronize Maintenance Contracts

  8. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management Technology Refresh • Technological Rate of Change • Blade Servers • 64-bit Extensions • Dual-Core • Virtualization Hardware Assist • Assess historical performance and usage requirements • Establish and manage refresh schedule • Refresh end of the lifecycle hardware

  9. Virtualization Technology Lifecycle Management Asset Disposal • Avoid disposal costs cutting into operating budgets • Employ best methods for data destruction • Comply with security, environmental, and DoD requirements and regulations

  10. GTSI.com

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