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Customer Needs GE Access Consolidation Strategies Slide Bank

Customer Needs GE Access Consolidation Strategies Slide Bank. Customer Needs. Server Consolidation Storage Consolidation Network Consolidation Virtualization Improve Manageability Enhance IT staff efficiency Physical Consolidation Resource Utilization Manage Acquisition Costs

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Customer Needs GE Access Consolidation Strategies Slide Bank

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  1. Customer Needs GE Access Consolidation Strategies Slide Bank

  2. Customer Needs • Server Consolidation • Storage Consolidation • Network Consolidation • Virtualization • Improve Manageability • Enhance IT staff efficiency • Physical Consolidation • Resource Utilization • Manage Acquisition Costs • Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs • Minimizing Opportunity Costs • Fast Response Time • Fast Service Time • Scalability • Security and Privacy • Connectivity • Reliability • Disaster Recovery • Availability • Security • Interoperability • Application Integration • System and Data Integration • Strategic Enablement • Real-time Change Management • Faster Application Development • Minimize Business Interruption • eBusiness Scalability

  3. Customer Need: Server Consolidation • The merging of applications, databases and services onto fewer, highly reliable servers • Better asset utilization • Elimination of unnecessary systems • Reduce staffing • Lower maintenance costs • Reduce number of operating environments

  4. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Server Consolidation • Sun Fire Servers • Binary compatibility • Provide continuous availability • Scalability • Performance • Increased flexibility • Better resource management • Investment protection Sun Fire Servers

  5. Customer Need: Storage Consolidation • Improve data access for all users • Improve IT data flows • Maximize utilization of IT personnel, facility, and system resources • Increase the number of terabytes that can be administered by a single person • Save valuable data center floor space or even recover floor tiles • Lower maintenance and service costs • Fewer hardware components • Fewer software licenses

  6. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Storage Consolidation • Consolidating multiple servers into a multi-domain server and combining the storage into a single storage platform • Consolidating just the storage subsystems into a single storage subsystem • Consolidate storage islands into fully implemented storage Area Networks (SAN’s) Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers Veritas High Availability Solutions Hitachi Thunder & Lightning StorageTek Disk D Series

  7. Customer Need: Network Consolidation • Improve quality of service • Increase the amount of data transfer • Increase transfer speeds • Accommodate increased network traffic • Enable remote access

  8. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Network Consolidation • Faster throughput • Minimize bottlenecks • More efficient data replication • Superior IT service management • Remote access Extreme Networks HP Open View Tarantella

  9. Customer Need: Virtualization • Increase flexibility and responsiveness of the infrastructure • Shorten lead times • Achieve economies of scale • Manage more resources with fewer staff • Be able to easily add or swap out system resources • Applications are fully isolated • Containing resources • Isolating faults • Ensuring domain security “Do more with less.”

  10. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Virtualization • Full resource containment and control • Security isolation • Fault isolation • Service Management Application • No physical limitations • N1 • Sun’s strategy virtualises all of a company’s computing resources Solaris 9 Containers Sun N1 Veritas’ High Availability Solutions

  11. Customer Need: Improve Manageability • Improve the reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability of IT services • More efficiently manage workloads • Resource partitioning • Workload classification • Resource control • Resource accounting • Improve service levels and quality

  12. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Improve Manageability • Improve workload management • System-wide resource management • Single point of management • Custom resource allocation policies • Remote system configuration • Monitor performance • Isolate hardware and software faults • Storage-virtualization technology Solaris 9 Sun Technology Veritas’ High Availability Solutions

  13. Customer Need: Enhance IT Staff Efficiency • Make better use of skilled and scarce IT labor • Upgrade level of IT skills • Reduce headcount • Greater productivity per IT professional

  14. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Enhance IT Staff Efficiency • Sun’s Binary Compatibility • Consistent methodology • In-depth hardware and service monitoring • Agent technology and sophisticated controls by administrator • Optimize storage resource utilization and simplify administration in heterogeneous environments Sun’s Binary Compatibility Sun Management Centers Veritas Storage Management Solutions

  15. Customer Need: Physical Consolidation • Consolidate servers in one central location • Make better use of resources • Reduce staffing

  16. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Physical Consolidation • Unified and automated storage management solution • Multi-domain server and single storage platform • Single storage subsystem • Storage Area Networks (SAN’s) Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers Veritas High Availability Solutions Hitachi Thunder & Lightning StorageTek Disk D Series

  17. Customer Need: Resource Utilization • Improve servers utilization • Reduce aggregate capacity • Enable shared resources • Reduce TCO • Reduce unplanned downtime

  18. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Resource Utilization • Domain partitioning • Dynamic reconfiguration • System-wide resource management Sun Fire Servers Solaris Resource Manager

  19. Customer Need: Manage Acquisition Costs • Reduce the numbers of machines a company needs to support its IT services • Reduce the costs of purchasing and maintaining multiple operating system environments • Watch out for deceptive ROI analysis • Project-specific ROI’s build inefficiencies • Increasing proportion of IT resources devoted to infrastructures • Less money to invest in new application functionality

  20. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Manage Acquisition Costs • Single operating system reduces a TCO • Solaris - 9 generations of backward compatibility • Sun financing programs- Capacity on Demand- enables you to “buy as you go” • Open architecture and virtualization lower upfront investment costs • “Pay-as-you-go” scalability • Just-in-time purchasing Sun Technology Hitachi Freedom Storage StorageTek D-Series GE Access’ Financial Services Group

  21. Customer Need: Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs • Reduce headcount • Improve efficiency • Reduce costs of • Managing the network • Systems • Storage • Providing end-user support • Administration • Training • Purchasing • Help desks

  22. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs • Sun’s Architectural Consistency • Hitachi Freedom Storage • StorageTek L Series Tape Library Sun Architectural Consistency Hitachi Freedom Storage StorageTek L Series Tape Library

  23. Customer Need: Minimizing Opportunity Costs • Cost of unplanned downtime • Angry and lost customers • Missed e-business opportunities • Degrading customer satisfaction ratings • Liabilities caused by improperly tracked transactions

  24. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Minimizing Opportunity Costs • Minimize both planned and unplanned downtime • Disruption protection even in the case of failure • Data backup and recovery protects critical data • Back up data with non-disruptive, real-time copies • Redundant, hot-swappable components with no single point of failure maintains business continuity • Migrate and store your data in secure, off site facilities Sun Solaris RAS Functionality Veritas Data Protection Hitachi Freedom Storage Solutions StorageTek L Series Tape Library

  25. Customer Need: Fast Response Time • Reduce time taken by a system to respond to user • Reduce system overhead • Increase network bandwidth • Minimize delays • Increase productivity

  26. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Fast Response Time • SAN architecture enables storage area network management • Consolidate storage resources on the network • Optimize resource utilization • Improve response time • Optimise storage resource utilization • Simplify administration • Complete solution including switches Sun StoreEdge Open SAN Solutions Veritas Network Storage Management Software StorageTek D-Series Software and Storage Devices Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches

  27. Fast Service Time • Reduce response time • Faster transaction processing • Faster order fulfillment • Improve organizational responsiveness

  28. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Fast Service Time • 24/7 availability • Outstanding throughput speed for global data access • High application availability • Instant data access • Disruption-free operations • Comprehensive data protection Sun Fire Servers & Sun StorEdge Storage Arrays StorageTek D-Series

  29. Customer Need: Scalability • Ability to quickly and cost effectively scale IT infrastructures • Increase throughput • Minimize impact on ongoing IT productivity and services

  30. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Scalability • Sun’s binary compatibility • Easy migration path to increase capacity and performance Sun’s Platform Scalability StorageTek D-Series Storage Systems Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series

  31. Customer Need: Security and Privacy • Protect customer and employee data from unauthorized use and distribution • Protect against electronic theft and fraud • Intrusion detection

  32. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Security and Privacy • Network-centric security • Password protection • Encryption • Protect and securely connect offices of all sizes • Security, reliability and ease of use for mobile and networked workforce • Simplified, proactive, protection against security attacks Sun Platform Security CheckPoint Nokia Internet Security Systems (ISS)

  33. Customer Need: Connectivity • Maintain a dialogue with trading partners • Iterative, ongoing interactivity with customers • Increase permeability of the company’s boundaries

  34. GE Access Consolidation Strategy:Connectivity • Balance the increasing desire for connectivity with the limitations of living with legacy system Sun ONE Services on Demand

  35. Customer Need: Reliability • Improve accuracy of transactions • Two-phase commit • Real-time logging • Recoverability of transaction records • Increase velocity of response • Reduce variability • Minimize impact of change

  36. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Reliability • Built-in redundancies to negate any single points of failure • Hot swappable components and advanced online serviceability reduce downtime • Resource allocation across individual domains on the fly • Allocate shares of system resources to various workloads Sun RAS Functionality Solaris Resource Manager Veritas Storage Management Software

  37. Customer Need: Disaster Recovery • Recover records in case of an outage, system failure or operator error • Support continuous business operations during a disastrous occurrence • Support continuous business operations during a disastrous occurrence • Conduct extremely rapid fail over without losing or corrupting records

  38. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Disaster Recovery • Fault-tolerant system with fully redundant, hot-installable/hot-replaceable components • Power alternatives for all duplicated components • Minimal interruptions even in heterogeneous environments • Off site data storage that doesn’t disrupt your regular data flow • Any-to-any connectivity Sun’s Disaster Recovery Functionality Veritas Disaster Recovery Hitachi Multiplatform Backup/Restore StorageTek L Series Tape Library

  39. Customer Need: Availability • Delivery of efficient IT service with no outages visible to users • Minimize planned outages for tasks such as hardware and software upgrades, application and database changes, and preventative maintenance • Avoid the disruptive effects of unplanned outages • Minimize any negative impact of workload surges

  40. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Availability • Point-in-time copy and remote mirroring helps reduce disruptions • Create custom resource allocation policies based on individual and group needs • Manage workloads and allocate resources where and when they are needed • Manage workloads and allocate resources where and when they are needed • SAN technology improves data availability Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers Veritas High Availability Solutions Hitachi Thunder & Lightning StorageTek Disk D Series

  41. Customer Need: Security • Firewalls need to be installed and administered • Virus protection • Intrusion detection and response • Auditing and analysis • Minimize labor costs

  42. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Security • Network-centric security • Protect and securely connect offices of all sizes • Security reliability and ease of use for mobile workforce • Simplified, proactive, protection against security attacks • Authenticate software and hardware tokens, smart cards and digital certificates Sun’s Network-Centric Security CheckPoint Nokia Internet Security Systems RSA Security

  43. Customer Need: Interoperability • Improve back-end integration • Minimize costs of Interoperability • Improve IT Performance • Provide better information • Enable cross-functional and inter-enterprise application and data sharing

  44. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Interoperability • Open architecture and commitment to open standards ensures application interoperability • Open, published standards provides greater choice of products that they will all work together Sun ONE Solaris 9

  45. Application Integration • Reduce management complexity • Improve resource management and utilization • Decrease costs associated with buying, building and administering multiple applications

  46. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Application Integration • Lower the lower the complexity of your data center by hosting multiple apps on a single server • Cluster software allows a single application or series of applications to run across multiple domains or systems • Enhanced manageability, availability and performance of databases and applications improves application integration Veritas Storage Management Software Sun’s Dynamic System Domains Sun’s Cluster Software

  47. System and Data Integration • Increase interoperability and data access • Support sustained workload growth over long periods with little or no increase in costs • Better resource utilization

  48. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: System and Data Integration • Sun’s Data Center Consolidation Solution improving efficiency and reducing complexity • Hitachi Freedom Storage reduces storage management complexity • Veritas Storage Management Softwaresimplifies the administration of heterogeneous environments dramatically improvising application and systems integration initiatives Sun’s Data Center Consolidation Solution Hitachi Freedom Storage Veritas Storage Management Software

  49. Customer Need: Strategic Enablement • Easier access to information • Support innovative process • Support empowered teams

  50. GE Access Consolidation Strategy: Strategic Enablement • GE Access Professional Services • Centralized resource for the consulting, technical, educational and professional service organizations • Sun, Veritas, Hitachi and StorageTek • Source contracts with other systems integrators • EDS, CapGemini, Accenture • Sun Professional Services • Map business strategy to technology roadmap GE Access Professional Services Sun Professional Services

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