2. Enterprise IT Problem Domain Reducing Datacenter Costs & Improving IT Operations Business Drivers Poor demand & capacity planning across functions Senior management holding CIOs accountable for operational efficiency 6% server utilization, 56% facility utilization Current State Infrastructure Utilization Datacenter assets dramatically under-utilized Infrastructure Growth Rates Demand for infrastructure growing rapidly Application Time to Deploy Takes too long to deploy enterprise applications Applications Performance Applications that don’t consistently meet to SLAs IT Costs CapEx budgets can’t satisfy demand for infrastructure OpEx commitments that continue to grow “ Datacenter spend is a large, growing and very inefficient portion of the total IT budget in many technology intensive industries…..”
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6. So is Grid Computing a universal solution? Really only applicable to a subset of enterprise applications – those applications where the processing of information is easily parallelized Customers started to ask us? Can I run my standard Web apps on the Grid Can I run my packaged apps on the Grid? Can I run legacy apps on the Grid?
7. FabricServer - Basics FabricServer Package Once FabricServer provides tools and templates required to build self-contained, runnable packages of applications and platforms Tools Self-Contained Packages Configuration Information Platforms Packaged Legacy FabricServer Run Anywhere FabricServer manages those packages and can activate on any runtime environment (physical, virtual, cloud) Clouds Virtual Physical Automated Deployment Service Repository Run-Time Broker Policy Engine Manage Runtime FabricServer allows production support teams to create policies for how applications will be managed at run time Closed Loop Policy-Based Allocation of Infrastructure