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White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures




White paper
Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures-
a consistent approach to meeting new IT
demands


                                              Contents
                                              Introduction                                                2
                                              IT challenges and technology trends                         2
                                              IT provider landscape                                       5
                                              Fujitsu reevaluated                                         8
                                              Conclusion                                                  9




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Introduction
The constant demand for immediate access to data and resources,                               On a functional level, they want to ensure seamless
reliability and efficiency has created a new ideal of modern,                                  operation of their infrastructures in order to provide their
powerful enterprise IT. Based on market research and technology                                customers, employees, and partners with maximum
observation, this paper explores which criteria modern platforms                               benefits.
have to meet and how leading vendors and service providers
respond in order to deliver these platforms. It is intended as a                              On a strategic level, they are attempting to create
guideline for executives who need to make informed purchase                                    competitive advantages by deploying technical innovations
decisions.                                                                                     that in turn could influence company-wide processes and
                                                                                               induce changes in business models and strategies for
IT challenges and technology trends                                                            competition.
For many years, companies have been trying to build IT infrastructures
that would serve as a utility for all departments and business units.                         On an organizational level, they are aiming to optimize
This trend has remained persistent as computers evolved from dumb                              business processes so that their organization can remain
boxes that carry out mundane tasks into today’s powerful instruments                           profitable and to encourage economically viable
for database operation, financial planning and scientific simulation.                          transformation.
To some extent, these technological advancements contributed to
achieving the goal of establishing business-driven computing                        Abstract as they may seem, these goals correspond to the answers the
infrastructures. However, it is still a valid observation that rather than          same attendees gave when asked which of their current IT projects
subjecting to a particular business or workflow logic, IT and its                   have the highest priority. Here, the results indicate that their focus is
processes tend to shape operations and procedures on their own.                     on a variety of initiatives and infrastructure enhancements, most of
Therefore, it is important to understand the current major challenges               which are centered on “cloud computing” – the new IT services
in IT as well as the status of IT evolution.                                        delivery model that gained popularity over the past five years.
                                                                                    According to the interviewees, the top 5 issues are as follows:
IT goals and challenges
The ongoing digital revolution and the arrival of service-oriented,                           Reshaping IT strategies;
Web 2.0 architectures during the early 2000s have only confirmed                              Server virtualization;
companies’ needs for an efficient and flexible IT. An online survey                           Implementation of “private clouds”;
conducted among attendees of Fujitsu’s VISIT in-house exhibition                              Evaluation of “public clouds”;
                                                                                              Implementation of desktop virtualization concepts and
in November 2010 1 shows that decision makers and C-level
                                                                                               technologies (Server-based Computing, Virtual Desktop
management are pursuing three main goals with regard to their
                                                                                               Infrastructure, Thin and Zero Clients).
companies’ respective IT strategies:

Ranking of future IT-priorities (Top 10)

                                Overall                                 Customers                              Partners
    Rank       1.    Evaluation of Cloud computing                  Reshaping IT Strategy             Evaluation of Cloud Computing

               2.          Server virtualization                    Server virtualization            Implementation of Private Cloud

               3. Implementation of Private Cloud            Implementation of Private Cloud            Infrastructure as a Service

               4.       Infrastructure as a Service           Evaluation of Cloud Computing                Server virtualization

               5.    Thin Client Concepts (VDI, SBC)              Thin/Zero Client Concepts             Thin/ Zero Client Concepts

               6.          Reshaping IT strategy                    Business Intelligence                 Cloud Security Services

               7.          Business Intelligence                 Infrastructure as a Service         Storage Consolidation (Unified)       Topics
               8.         Cloud Security Services                       Win 7 Rollout                Implementation of Hybrid Cloud           Strategic initiatives

               9.    Storage consolidation (Unified)           Server/ Storage modernization               Business Intelligence               Cloud Computing


               10. Implementation of Hybrid Cloud                                                                                           Infrastructure Projects
                                                              Storage Consolidation (Unified)             Content Management

1
    FTS VISIT 2010 Online Survey: Final Report – Overall Market Intelligence,
Munich 2010.


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Combined, these responses reveal that IT managers and their                    doing so. Another 27 percent stated there would be future plans,
superiors are collectively striving for a new level of agility, reliability,   while only one third (34 percent) said they had “no plans” at all.
and cost-effectiveness, albeit for different reasons. C-level executives
typically demand that IT should make the difference in enabling their          Moreover, projects from related areas such as Enterprise
organizations to meet customer needs faster than the competition – if          Networking and Communication, Outsourcing and IT Services,
possible, at a better cost-performance ratio. What they expect is a            Security and Compliance or Content and Collaboration could
shorter time-to-market for their innovative offerings as well as support       also lead to a broader acceptance of cloud-related products,
for the retention of existing and the acquisition of new customers.            services and solutions.
Thus a framework is established, while the actual task of “reshaping IT”
is delegated to company experts.                                               While the Fujitsu survey at hand gives good temporary,
These IT decision makers, i.e. heads of data centers and cognate               future-oriented insight, it does not explicitly identify underlying
departments, generally follow the C-level agenda; their deeper                 medium- and long-term trends, that is, the main challenges that
technical insight enables them to devise practical strategies,                 drive technical as well as strategic changes in data centers and IT
reference projects, and the like. Consequently, Fujitsu asked                  departments. For the purpose of this paper, other sources were
interviewees from this group to name their top priorities for the near         therefore incorporated. Of particular importance were Gartner’s Data
future. Not too surprisingly, server virtualization – which has been a         Center Issues and Priorities Survey 2010 and related analyses:
dominant trend for at least five years – still takes the lead. However,
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and cloud computing follow close            Gartner asked respondents to identify the three biggest
behind, a result that clearly differs from those of the VISIT 2009 survey      challenges that their organization will face respect to its data
in which these new delivery models met with a lot of skepticism. That          center hardware infrastructure through the end of 2011.
means, even though both technologies have not yet achieved                     According to the survey, the No. 1 response was data growth,
                                                                               followed by system performance and scalability, and network
mainstream status, their adoption is improving fast: by November
                                                                               congestion and connectivity architecture. 2
2010, 39 percent of the respondents had either defined a “cloud
strategy”, evaluated/implemented solutions or were in the process of




                                                  Data growth                                                                                            47


                           Systeme performance and scalabiliy                                                                           37


              Network congestion and connectivity architecture                                                                         36


                              Cost of power, cooling and space                                                                    33


                              Data center management issues                                                                  30


                    Integrating multiple vendors´technologies                                                           29


                                          Virtual server sprawl                                                    25


 Underutilization of hardware and/or effective asset inventory                                                     25


                                         Physical server sprawl                                          20


                                    Cable management issues                               13


                                                                  0    5           10     15        20        25        30        35        40    45           50

                                                                                               Percentage of Respondents




                                                                               2
                                                                                 Cf. April Adams, Naveen Mishra: User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping
                                                                               the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011, Gartner, October 2010,
                                                                               p.4 and 5.


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Gartner also asked respondents what the three most important drivers
of strategic change in their organization's data center would be
through the end of 2011, business continuity and availability came in
first at 50%. Cost containment initiatives was ranked the
second-biggest driver of strategic change in the data center, followed
by the need to maintain or improve user service levels and
              3
satisfaction.




                                  Business continuity and availability                                                                             50


                                         Cost containment initiatives                                                        37


              Maintain or improve user service levels and satisfaction                                                      36


                                          Infrastructure consolidation                                                 32


                                          Data center modernization                                               29


Existing data center at or nearing capacity and/or utilization limits                                            28


                                Infrastructure management concerns                                          23


                                             Sustainability or green IT                                21


                           Application consolidation or rationalizaion                                 21


      The need to support regulation, reporting and/or compliance                                 18


                                                                          0         10            20             30              40           50           60

                                                                                                   Percentage of Respondents




Precis
As outlined above, the purpose of this section was to identify the main            services and enhanced business continuity) and increased efficiency
goals and challenges IT departments must face today. The combined                  (in keeping with cost containment policies). But unlike in the old days,
research results from Fujitsu and Gartner can only lead to the                     these demands cannot be fulfilled by simply rolling out new hardware
conclusion that there currently are three key demands that prevail in              and software or marking up service level agreements alone. Instead,
enterprise environments and will likely carry over to midsize and small            what companies need – and expect their IT partners to offer them – is
companies in the medium term: customers expect their future IT                     an integrated approach and matching portfolio of products, solutions
infrastructures to offer higher agility (more scalability and increased            and services. For many vendors this means they will have to adapt to
service levels), greater reliability (availability of data and                     new business models or substantially upgrade their traditional ones.




3 Cf. April Adams, Naveen Mishra: User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping
the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011, Gartner, October 2010, p.
8 and 9.

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                 Technology trends                                                            But even though vendors and service providers are already well on the
                 While the challenges that lie ahead are still complex, IT decision           way, IT decision makers need to understand that this transformation
                 makers have to realize that the industry is constantly moving forward        will happen over several years in an evolutionary, not a revolutionary
                 and many solutions are already close at hand. Important technological        way. The reasons for this are at least twofold: on the one hand, cloud
                 advancements that were realized over the past 10 to 15 years include         related technologies and offerings need to be developed further to
                 the change from proprietary hardware and software environments into          provide “everything from the cloud”. On the other hand, security
                 standardized and integrated topologies, the introduction of                  concerns and compliance with legal standards make it difficult for IT
                 virtualization first at the server and later at the office and data center   managers to switch their trusted IT environments for the new delivery
                 level, and finally the delivery of management tools that enable IT           model anytime soon. This means that IT departments need to retain
                 process automation. Altogether this progress has made IT operations          their capability to oversee the full technological spectrum in their data
                 much smoother and enabled companies to install standard                      centers, from traditional client/server infrastructures to cloud
                 infrastructures for highly specific usage scenarios, for instance online     computing, yet not in a discrete but an integrated way in order to
                 shops, booking services, and day trading. The success of virtualization      achieve greater efficiency. To many executives this may sound like
                 and automation in particular, along with the proliferation of                business as usual; however, starting today they will have to face a
                 broadband telecommunications, has paved the way for a completely             rising number of make-or-buy decisions – and to determine more
                 new delivery model for IT services. Rather than to have them in-house,       frequently when it’s time for a strategic move to the next level.
                 which often includes a need to manage increasingly complex
                 networks, it is now possible to order a growing amount of capacities
                 and functionalities “as a service”. Some vendors offer portfolios that
                 range from providing extra physical servers, storage arrays and
                 software instances for peak demands to entirely virtualized, managed
                 office environments and beyond. The technical term for this new
                 delivery model is cloud computing, and it heralds an age of IT
                 industrialization – up to the point where vendors will finally be able to
                 fulfill the age-old dream of utility computing.




                                                                                                                                         IT as a utility

                                                                                                             Industrialization

                                                                                Automation
Transformation




                                                     Virtualization                                                                          Cloud Computing

                       Consolidation &                                                                          Managed
                       Standardization                                                                          Infrastructure

                                                                                   Tools for
                                                                                   Orchestration

                                                         Hypervisor

                           Industry
                           Standards




                                                                                              Time



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IT provider landscape
As pointed out above, the purpose of this paper is to assist business       outsourcing with a variety of managed services and
and IT executives in making well informed and taking strategically          telecommunications solutions; their scope, however, is somewhat
appropriate purchase decisions. To this end, this chapter shows the         limited to select applications (ERP, email), tasks (archiving and
“vendor and provider landscape”, compares portfolios and strategies,        document management) and platforms (mainframe, Microsoft). More
and assesses their relative pros and cons. Let’s begin with a detailed      advanced offerings, such as Managed Workplace Services (MWS), are
look at market participants.                                                just beginning to emerge.

Segmentation of IT providers                                                It became questionable to put Dell in this category. While the
Currently only a handful of companies are offering comprehensive,           company is still best known among customers for the way it
widely integrated product and/or service portfolios in combination          streamlined PC production and sales throughout the 1980s and 1990s,
with a dedicated strategic concept of what computing and IT                 it has branched out extensively in recent years and added servers,
infrastructures should look like in future. These players may be roughly    storage and networking hardware as well as solution and service
grouped into three categories:                                              packages to its catalog. But although the company broadened its
         horizontally focused companies:                                   portfolio, its original competence in efficiency still remains very
            Accenture, Dell, T-Systems                                      strong; moreover, Dell has not changed its motto “Simplify IT” to a
         alliances/mergers and acquisitions:                               more “dynamic” message since 2007. As a consequence, innovative
            Oracle, VCE Coalition                                           elements such as the Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Management
         vertically integrated companies                                   Suite for heterogeneous environments or various cloud-based services
            Fujitsu, HP, IBM                                                (email continuity, centralized asset management and software
                                                                            distribution) so far only are delivered to a comparatively small
Horizontally focused companies                                              customer base. Some of these services are still quite new and have
                                                                            been added through the acquisition of Perot Systems (now Dell
The companies in this category are typically perceived as powerful,         Services) in 2009 and Boomi in November 2010. Moreover, not all of
even dominant players in a specific market segment. However, they           them are currently available outside the US. Altogether, Dell’s
usually do not cross boundaries, either because other segments are          integration among products, solutions and services doesn’t appear
not in line with their business model or because their offerings            quite as strong as that of other vendors.
outside their core segment have not yet matured enough. At present,
the most important companies in this group are Accenture, T-Systems
and Dell. In the case of Accenture and T-Systems, this categorization
is easy to understand. Although they will occasionally act as ‘retailers’
for select hardware and software partners, both generate their main
income from consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services
for applications, business processes and infrastructures.

Accenture, as the bigger of the two, runs a network of global Delivery
Centers across the Americas, Europe and Asia and maintains offices
and operations in over 50 countries and 200 cities worldwide. The
company serves a broad set of industries from chemicals through
healthcare and life sciences to retail and logistics and is considered a
global leader especially in systems integration, business-process
outsourcing and technology services. With regard to infrastructure,
Accenture offers packages for data center technology and operations,
service-oriented architectures, modernization, data and information
management, and a variety of Software-as-a-Service and cloud-based          Alliances/mergers and acquisitions
solutions. However, these offerings are often segmented by
application and/or IT topics, which may make them complicated to            The paradigm shift associated with cloud computing has spawned a
track down and understand; cloud computing and Infrastructure as a          number of alliances as well as mergers in recent years. Among these,
Service solutions have only recently been added to Accenture’s              the two most important ones – Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems
portfolio.                                                                  and the forming of the VCE Coalition – have received extensive media
                                                                            coverage.
T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom, acts as a worldwide ICT
(information and communication technologies) provider for the               With the acceptance of Oracle’s bid in April 2009, Sun ended a long
Group’s business customers, in particular large corporations and the        period of decline; at the same time, the deal gave Oracle its
public sector, as well as other external customers. Headquartered in        long-coveted chance to enter the hardware market. Following a
Germany, T-Systems has a strong European focus and is widely                20-year business relationship, the merger was hailed as an
recognized for its expertise in the automotive, transportation and          “industry-defining event”; in an early statement, CEO Larry Ellison
banking sectors. The company’s infrastructure portfolio – dubbed            claimed that “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an
Dynamic Services – combines flexible IT and business process                integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and

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work together so customers do not have to do it themselves.” The          Vertically integrated companies
company’s extended portfolio looks impressive indeed: it now offers
everything from thin clients and workstations through x86 and SPARC       This last category is comprised of the vendors that offer integrated
servers to networking products and a so-called “integrated cloud          product, solutions and services portfolios from a single source.
machine”. Simultaneously, its list of business software and               However, what really sets them apart from other competitors is that
middleware was augmented with Java, Solaris and MySQL. But Oracle         they also provide a concept of how future data centers and IT
also inherited a few assets that it needs to put back on track, such as   infrastructures should function – and a strategy to get there. This
Sun’s storage unit. Further challenges could derive from the company’s    description applies to HP, IBM and Fujitsu.
acquisition policy: over the past decade, Oracle has bought more than
60 different companies – among them other big names such as               HP has been the largest computer manufacturer worldwide for several
PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and BEA – which sometimes resulted in          years. But that’s not where its capabilities end: HP is also a market
prolonged integration periods and temporary impairment of services.       leader in peripherals, i.e. printers, scanners, and the likes. Its portfolio
                                                                          is completed by networking hardware, disk and tape storage, and a
The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Coalition was formed in           broad selection of software products. Services were first listed as a
November 2009 and unites renowned companies from very different           separate business segment after the merger with Compaq in 2002;
segments of the IT market – namely VMware, Cisco and EMC. However,        since then, HP has become the second largest IT services provider
in this case the disparities are considered a valuable asset, since the   globally – a success that is partly due to the 2008 acquisition of
respective product portfolios complement one another: Cisco               Electronic Data Systems (EDS), now known as HP Enterprise Services.
contributes its line of Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers      In the early 2000s, HP created the concept of adaptive computing – an
plus networking equipment, EMC adds what is needed for data               early precursor of current dynamic infrastructure and cloud computing
storage and management, and VMware injects virtualization and             solutions. Today, HP markets its related offerings under the label
operating system expertise. The companies decided to cooperate with       Converged Infrastructure, which encompasses four core elements:
the specific aim to create a new major player in the cloud computing      Operating Environment (management software), FlexFabric (switches,
market, whose entry barriers would otherwise have been too high for       network adapters, routers etc.), Virtual Resource Pools (‘classic’ IT
any of the three participants. Betting on a rapid proliferation of        products), and Data Center Smart Grid (a combined environmental/
private clouds, VCE have bundled up infrastructure packages – called      facilities/ systems management solution to reduce energy
Vblock – that correspond to reference architectures for small, medium     consumption). With this lineup in place, the company’s value
and large configurations. A virtual desktop infrastructure, integrated    proposition is to change IT departments’ standard spending behavior –
professional services and a virtual support center complete the           70 percent of investments go into operation and maintenance – and
offering. Since Vblock are still very new to the market, no significant   free up capacities for core business innovation. HP has earned lots of
sales figures exist as yet. The packages themselves may appear            respect due to its strong focus on technology and down-to-earth
attractive especially to small and medium enterprises. But with           handling of IT issues. However, combined with a dominant market
implementations being scarce, a few insecurities remain: first off,       position this approach may sometimes make it hard to think outside
Cisco’s blades still have to prove if they can meet the ambitious         of the HP universe.
best-of-breed standard. Secondly, the alliance promised to find a
balance between its best-of-breed approach to technology and              IBM’s product catalog ranges from semiconductors to groupware and
end-to-end vendor accountability. Yet so far only few people have         from mainframes to systems based on x86 processors, storage and
seen VCE support and services in action, so their capabilities and        network management solutions. Consequently, its collection of
performance are currently hard to assess. Customers with a need for       infrastructure offerings – dubbed Dynamic Infrastructure – addresses
robust solutions and reliable SLAs may therefore need more                the following seven areas: asset management, service management,
assessment for support and services from VCE.                             virtualization, energy efficiency, information infrastructure, business
                                                                          resiliency, and security. IBM’s true forte, however, lies in its consulting
                                                                          expertise. Since the foundation of its Global Services division in 1991,
                                                                          the company has continually expanded in the field. As a result the
                                                                          division is now the world’s largest business and technology services
                                                                          provider with offices in 170 countries. This huge success is based on a
                                                                          consistent methodology of linking IT and business processes with the
                                                                          aim of improving service, reducing costs and eliminating or mitigating
                                                                          risks.
                                                                          Still despite such achievements, IBM has incurred gaps in its portfolio.
                                                                          The best example might be the sale of its PC and notebook division to
                                                                          Chinese computer maker Lenovo. This “lack” is comparatively easy to
                                                                          deal with from a customer’s/user’s point of view; however, IBM’s
                                                                          approach to implementing its Dynamic Infrastructure model
                                                                          sometimes calls for a customer’s long term commitment, from the
                                                                          assessment to the transformation of IT infrastructures, hierarchies and
                                                                          even business models. IT decision makers need to evaluate if issues
                                                                          they are currently facing require either a transformation or an
                                                                          evolution.


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Fujitsu, as the last company from this category, has much in common
with both IBM and HP: a near-complete offering of hardware, software
and services, consulting expertise, and a consistent, proven strategic
approach to IT solutions. With operations in 70 countries and more
than 170,000 employees, the company ranks as the third-largest IT
services provider worldwide and holds the first position in Japan.
Based on a long-standing tradition of collaborative efforts with its
customers as well as partners in the IT industry, Fujitsu has developed
its own distinct but flexible concept and delivered state-of-the-art IT
offerings. Fujitsu assembled its global service portfolio into three
segments: business services, application services and Dynamic
Infrastructures. Dynamic Infrastructures provide the basis to run
upper layer application and business services. Fujitsu Dynamic
Infrastructures consist of four “layers” that address different customer
demands and levels of IT maturity: Infrastructure Products and
Services (traditional hardware and software, product support),              Fujitsu reevaluated
Infrastructure Solutions (customizable solution packages for standard       The market and technology analysis provided above shows that both
business applications), Infrastructure as a Service (virtual server and     offering the full technology spectrum in an integrated manner and
storage capacities and office desktops that can be ordered on               customer orientation are considered cardinal virtues in the IT
demand), and Managed Infrastructure (transfer of IT operations to           business. Yet many projects end in disappointing results; products,
shared delivery centers). In this context, the Dynamic Infrastructures      solutions and service contracts are often criticized for being oversized,
concept serves as a framework for building and delivering                   inflexible or too costly.
standardized IT capacities and functionalities that at the same time        During the past 5 to 10 years, a growing number of hardware and
fulfill individual needs. This holistic, customer-oriented approach         software vendors as well as service providers have reacted to these
ensures that Fujitsu focuses on enabling companies to solve their IT        complaints. Based on a set of key technologies – such as multi-core
                                                                            processors/servers, 64-bit operating systems, new networking
issues.
                                                                            standards, virtualization, and IT/business process automation – they
                                                                            are now delivering agile, “living” infrastructures and on-demand
                                                                            capacities instead of insular systems or segregated information silos.
Pros and cons
                                                                            The core idea behind this new architecture model is to enable
From a customer’s standpoint, the above descriptions lead to the
                                                                            enterprises to flexibly allocate physical and virtual server and storage
following implications:
                                                                            capacities and turn them into dynamic resource pools that grow (or
                                                                            shrink) according to business demands – if need be, on a daily basis.
First, horizontally focused vendors typically offer focused product
                                                                            Fujitsu has been a pioneer of this new approach from the start, as can
and/or service portfolios – as opposed to a full spectrum of solutions.
                                                                            be concluded from many solutions in its Dynamic Infrastructures
This is acceptable if your own demands are well defined, e.g. in case
                                                                            portfolio, which build on the company’s own product lines such as
you want to purchase affordable hardware or need assistance with
                                                                            PRIMERGY servers and ETERNUS storage arrays. Examples include
specific IT projects. However, depending on your IT department’s
                                                                            FlexFrame for SAP, a pre-configured and pre-tested combination of
resources these offerings may not suffice when it comes to building
                                                                            servers, storage, networking devices and software needed for a lean,
complete – or completely new – infrastructures.
                                                                            ready-to-run SAP implementation; and Virtual Workplace, a workplace
                                                                            solution in which traditional desktop PCs are replaced with Thin or
Second, Oracle/Sun and the VCE Coalition are equipped with
                                                                            Zero Clients while all functionality resides in server-side virtual
comprehensive catalogs of proven hardware and software products             machines. Its cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings
and solutions. The problem is that these cooperations/mergers are still     provide IT functionalities and resources via secure VPN connections
relatively fresh so that internal operations need time to become            and let companies scale their environments in accordance with
attuned to one another, which might result in issues regarding the          expected workloads in a secure and organized manner; billing occurs
integration of products as well as the consistency of service levels        on a pay-as-you-go basis. Finally, Managed Infrastructure enables
during the IT life cycle.                                                   enterprises to delegate their IT operations or vital parts thereof to
                                                                            Fujitsu while still retaining full control over their data and
Third, for the time being, only vertically integrated companies are         infrastructure. Along with the company’s solution- and
prepared to meet the whole range of customer requirements – from            customer-oriented approach, this comprehensive offering enables IT
basic hardware purchases to designing and managing complex                  managers to make the choices that best suit their enterprise’s overall
internal or external/cloud-based infrastructures. But the width and         IT infrastructure and to select the most effective ways of leveraging
depth of their portfolios and expertise bears a risk for their customers,   alternative sourcing and delivery models. Thus, Fujitsu successfully
as these vendors may feel tempted to guide them to their own “sweet         assists IT managers in preparing for their next ambitious IT projects.
spot”, i.e. a desired sale. IT decision makers need to be aware of that
and prepare to ask a simple question: “Is this truly what we
want/need?”

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Conclusion
An old commonplace tells us that “change is the only constant in IT”.
Trivial as it may seem, this assertion has rarely been more fitting than
today, where agility, flexibility, on-demand access to data and
resources and cost efficiency have emerged as key values of a powerful
enterprise IT that culminate in the cloud computing paradigm. But
cloud computing is more than just a technological concept: the idea of
limitless IT resources constantly available everywhere has triggered
changes in user behavior, expectations and legal standards as well as
the IT landscape. New services are starting daily, and new competitors
appear almost as fast – the situation is roughly comparable to the
days of the first Internet boom. In fact, the pressure is so high that
even prominent hardware and software vendors and service providers
are changing their hitherto successful business models and “going
vertical”, as the examples of Oracle and the VCE Coalition attest.
Against this backdrop, Fujitsu stands out as a reliable, experienced
infrastructure provider with a coherent strategy and proven track
record – a partner you wish for in so much upheaval.




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White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures- a consistent approach to meeting new IT demands

  • 1. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures- a consistent approach to meeting new IT demands Contents Introduction 2 IT challenges and technology trends 2 IT provider landscape 5 Fujitsu reevaluated 8 Conclusion 9 Page 1 of 9 http://ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic
  • 2. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures Introduction The constant demand for immediate access to data and resources,  On a functional level, they want to ensure seamless reliability and efficiency has created a new ideal of modern, operation of their infrastructures in order to provide their powerful enterprise IT. Based on market research and technology customers, employees, and partners with maximum observation, this paper explores which criteria modern platforms benefits. have to meet and how leading vendors and service providers respond in order to deliver these platforms. It is intended as a  On a strategic level, they are attempting to create guideline for executives who need to make informed purchase competitive advantages by deploying technical innovations decisions. that in turn could influence company-wide processes and induce changes in business models and strategies for IT challenges and technology trends competition. For many years, companies have been trying to build IT infrastructures that would serve as a utility for all departments and business units.  On an organizational level, they are aiming to optimize This trend has remained persistent as computers evolved from dumb business processes so that their organization can remain boxes that carry out mundane tasks into today’s powerful instruments profitable and to encourage economically viable for database operation, financial planning and scientific simulation. transformation. To some extent, these technological advancements contributed to achieving the goal of establishing business-driven computing Abstract as they may seem, these goals correspond to the answers the infrastructures. However, it is still a valid observation that rather than same attendees gave when asked which of their current IT projects subjecting to a particular business or workflow logic, IT and its have the highest priority. Here, the results indicate that their focus is processes tend to shape operations and procedures on their own. on a variety of initiatives and infrastructure enhancements, most of Therefore, it is important to understand the current major challenges which are centered on “cloud computing” – the new IT services in IT as well as the status of IT evolution. delivery model that gained popularity over the past five years. According to the interviewees, the top 5 issues are as follows: IT goals and challenges The ongoing digital revolution and the arrival of service-oriented,  Reshaping IT strategies; Web 2.0 architectures during the early 2000s have only confirmed  Server virtualization; companies’ needs for an efficient and flexible IT. An online survey  Implementation of “private clouds”; conducted among attendees of Fujitsu’s VISIT in-house exhibition  Evaluation of “public clouds”;  Implementation of desktop virtualization concepts and in November 2010 1 shows that decision makers and C-level technologies (Server-based Computing, Virtual Desktop management are pursuing three main goals with regard to their Infrastructure, Thin and Zero Clients). companies’ respective IT strategies: Ranking of future IT-priorities (Top 10) Overall Customers Partners Rank 1. Evaluation of Cloud computing Reshaping IT Strategy Evaluation of Cloud Computing 2. Server virtualization Server virtualization Implementation of Private Cloud 3. Implementation of Private Cloud Implementation of Private Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 4. Infrastructure as a Service Evaluation of Cloud Computing Server virtualization 5. Thin Client Concepts (VDI, SBC) Thin/Zero Client Concepts Thin/ Zero Client Concepts 6. Reshaping IT strategy Business Intelligence Cloud Security Services 7. Business Intelligence Infrastructure as a Service Storage Consolidation (Unified) Topics 8. Cloud Security Services Win 7 Rollout Implementation of Hybrid Cloud Strategic initiatives 9. Storage consolidation (Unified) Server/ Storage modernization Business Intelligence Cloud Computing 10. Implementation of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Projects Storage Consolidation (Unified) Content Management 1 FTS VISIT 2010 Online Survey: Final Report – Overall Market Intelligence, Munich 2010. Page 2 of 9 www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic
  • 3. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures Combined, these responses reveal that IT managers and their doing so. Another 27 percent stated there would be future plans, superiors are collectively striving for a new level of agility, reliability, while only one third (34 percent) said they had “no plans” at all. and cost-effectiveness, albeit for different reasons. C-level executives typically demand that IT should make the difference in enabling their Moreover, projects from related areas such as Enterprise organizations to meet customer needs faster than the competition – if Networking and Communication, Outsourcing and IT Services, possible, at a better cost-performance ratio. What they expect is a Security and Compliance or Content and Collaboration could shorter time-to-market for their innovative offerings as well as support also lead to a broader acceptance of cloud-related products, for the retention of existing and the acquisition of new customers. services and solutions. Thus a framework is established, while the actual task of “reshaping IT” is delegated to company experts. While the Fujitsu survey at hand gives good temporary, These IT decision makers, i.e. heads of data centers and cognate future-oriented insight, it does not explicitly identify underlying departments, generally follow the C-level agenda; their deeper medium- and long-term trends, that is, the main challenges that technical insight enables them to devise practical strategies, drive technical as well as strategic changes in data centers and IT reference projects, and the like. Consequently, Fujitsu asked departments. For the purpose of this paper, other sources were interviewees from this group to name their top priorities for the near therefore incorporated. Of particular importance were Gartner’s Data future. Not too surprisingly, server virtualization – which has been a Center Issues and Priorities Survey 2010 and related analyses: dominant trend for at least five years – still takes the lead. However, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and cloud computing follow close Gartner asked respondents to identify the three biggest behind, a result that clearly differs from those of the VISIT 2009 survey challenges that their organization will face respect to its data in which these new delivery models met with a lot of skepticism. That center hardware infrastructure through the end of 2011. means, even though both technologies have not yet achieved According to the survey, the No. 1 response was data growth, followed by system performance and scalability, and network mainstream status, their adoption is improving fast: by November congestion and connectivity architecture. 2 2010, 39 percent of the respondents had either defined a “cloud strategy”, evaluated/implemented solutions or were in the process of Data growth 47 Systeme performance and scalabiliy 37 Network congestion and connectivity architecture 36 Cost of power, cooling and space 33 Data center management issues 30 Integrating multiple vendors´technologies 29 Virtual server sprawl 25 Underutilization of hardware and/or effective asset inventory 25 Physical server sprawl 20 Cable management issues 13 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Percentage of Respondents 2 Cf. April Adams, Naveen Mishra: User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011, Gartner, October 2010, p.4 and 5. Page 3 of 9 www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic
  • 4. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures Gartner also asked respondents what the three most important drivers of strategic change in their organization's data center would be through the end of 2011, business continuity and availability came in first at 50%. Cost containment initiatives was ranked the second-biggest driver of strategic change in the data center, followed by the need to maintain or improve user service levels and 3 satisfaction. Business continuity and availability 50 Cost containment initiatives 37 Maintain or improve user service levels and satisfaction 36 Infrastructure consolidation 32 Data center modernization 29 Existing data center at or nearing capacity and/or utilization limits 28 Infrastructure management concerns 23 Sustainability or green IT 21 Application consolidation or rationalizaion 21 The need to support regulation, reporting and/or compliance 18 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Percentage of Respondents Precis As outlined above, the purpose of this section was to identify the main services and enhanced business continuity) and increased efficiency goals and challenges IT departments must face today. The combined (in keeping with cost containment policies). But unlike in the old days, research results from Fujitsu and Gartner can only lead to the these demands cannot be fulfilled by simply rolling out new hardware conclusion that there currently are three key demands that prevail in and software or marking up service level agreements alone. Instead, enterprise environments and will likely carry over to midsize and small what companies need – and expect their IT partners to offer them – is companies in the medium term: customers expect their future IT an integrated approach and matching portfolio of products, solutions infrastructures to offer higher agility (more scalability and increased and services. For many vendors this means they will have to adapt to service levels), greater reliability (availability of data and new business models or substantially upgrade their traditional ones. 3 Cf. April Adams, Naveen Mishra: User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011, Gartner, October 2010, p. 8 and 9. Page 4 of 9 www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic
  • 5. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures Technology trends But even though vendors and service providers are already well on the While the challenges that lie ahead are still complex, IT decision way, IT decision makers need to understand that this transformation makers have to realize that the industry is constantly moving forward will happen over several years in an evolutionary, not a revolutionary and many solutions are already close at hand. Important technological way. The reasons for this are at least twofold: on the one hand, cloud advancements that were realized over the past 10 to 15 years include related technologies and offerings need to be developed further to the change from proprietary hardware and software environments into provide “everything from the cloud”. On the other hand, security standardized and integrated topologies, the introduction of concerns and compliance with legal standards make it difficult for IT virtualization first at the server and later at the office and data center managers to switch their trusted IT environments for the new delivery level, and finally the delivery of management tools that enable IT model anytime soon. This means that IT departments need to retain process automation. Altogether this progress has made IT operations their capability to oversee the full technological spectrum in their data much smoother and enabled companies to install standard centers, from traditional client/server infrastructures to cloud infrastructures for highly specific usage scenarios, for instance online computing, yet not in a discrete but an integrated way in order to shops, booking services, and day trading. The success of virtualization achieve greater efficiency. To many executives this may sound like and automation in particular, along with the proliferation of business as usual; however, starting today they will have to face a broadband telecommunications, has paved the way for a completely rising number of make-or-buy decisions – and to determine more new delivery model for IT services. Rather than to have them in-house, frequently when it’s time for a strategic move to the next level. which often includes a need to manage increasingly complex networks, it is now possible to order a growing amount of capacities and functionalities “as a service”. Some vendors offer portfolios that range from providing extra physical servers, storage arrays and software instances for peak demands to entirely virtualized, managed office environments and beyond. The technical term for this new delivery model is cloud computing, and it heralds an age of IT industrialization – up to the point where vendors will finally be able to fulfill the age-old dream of utility computing. IT as a utility Industrialization Automation Transformation Virtualization Cloud Computing Consolidation & Managed Standardization Infrastructure Tools for Orchestration Hypervisor Industry Standards Time Page 5 of 9 www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic
  • 6. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures IT provider landscape As pointed out above, the purpose of this paper is to assist business outsourcing with a variety of managed services and and IT executives in making well informed and taking strategically telecommunications solutions; their scope, however, is somewhat appropriate purchase decisions. To this end, this chapter shows the limited to select applications (ERP, email), tasks (archiving and “vendor and provider landscape”, compares portfolios and strategies, document management) and platforms (mainframe, Microsoft). More and assesses their relative pros and cons. Let’s begin with a detailed advanced offerings, such as Managed Workplace Services (MWS), are look at market participants. just beginning to emerge. Segmentation of IT providers It became questionable to put Dell in this category. While the Currently only a handful of companies are offering comprehensive, company is still best known among customers for the way it widely integrated product and/or service portfolios in combination streamlined PC production and sales throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with a dedicated strategic concept of what computing and IT it has branched out extensively in recent years and added servers, infrastructures should look like in future. These players may be roughly storage and networking hardware as well as solution and service grouped into three categories: packages to its catalog. But although the company broadened its  horizontally focused companies: portfolio, its original competence in efficiency still remains very Accenture, Dell, T-Systems strong; moreover, Dell has not changed its motto “Simplify IT” to a  alliances/mergers and acquisitions: more “dynamic” message since 2007. As a consequence, innovative Oracle, VCE Coalition elements such as the Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Management  vertically integrated companies Suite for heterogeneous environments or various cloud-based services Fujitsu, HP, IBM (email continuity, centralized asset management and software distribution) so far only are delivered to a comparatively small Horizontally focused companies customer base. Some of these services are still quite new and have been added through the acquisition of Perot Systems (now Dell The companies in this category are typically perceived as powerful, Services) in 2009 and Boomi in November 2010. Moreover, not all of even dominant players in a specific market segment. However, they them are currently available outside the US. Altogether, Dell’s usually do not cross boundaries, either because other segments are integration among products, solutions and services doesn’t appear not in line with their business model or because their offerings quite as strong as that of other vendors. outside their core segment have not yet matured enough. At present, the most important companies in this group are Accenture, T-Systems and Dell. In the case of Accenture and T-Systems, this categorization is easy to understand. Although they will occasionally act as ‘retailers’ for select hardware and software partners, both generate their main income from consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services for applications, business processes and infrastructures. Accenture, as the bigger of the two, runs a network of global Delivery Centers across the Americas, Europe and Asia and maintains offices and operations in over 50 countries and 200 cities worldwide. The company serves a broad set of industries from chemicals through healthcare and life sciences to retail and logistics and is considered a global leader especially in systems integration, business-process outsourcing and technology services. With regard to infrastructure, Accenture offers packages for data center technology and operations, service-oriented architectures, modernization, data and information management, and a variety of Software-as-a-Service and cloud-based Alliances/mergers and acquisitions solutions. However, these offerings are often segmented by application and/or IT topics, which may make them complicated to The paradigm shift associated with cloud computing has spawned a track down and understand; cloud computing and Infrastructure as a number of alliances as well as mergers in recent years. Among these, Service solutions have only recently been added to Accenture’s the two most important ones – Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems portfolio. and the forming of the VCE Coalition – have received extensive media coverage. T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom, acts as a worldwide ICT (information and communication technologies) provider for the With the acceptance of Oracle’s bid in April 2009, Sun ended a long Group’s business customers, in particular large corporations and the period of decline; at the same time, the deal gave Oracle its public sector, as well as other external customers. Headquartered in long-coveted chance to enter the hardware market. Following a Germany, T-Systems has a strong European focus and is widely 20-year business relationship, the merger was hailed as an recognized for its expertise in the automotive, transportation and “industry-defining event”; in an early statement, CEO Larry Ellison banking sectors. The company’s infrastructure portfolio – dubbed claimed that “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an Dynamic Services – combines flexible IT and business process integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and Page 6 of 9 www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic
  • 7. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures work together so customers do not have to do it themselves.” The Vertically integrated companies company’s extended portfolio looks impressive indeed: it now offers everything from thin clients and workstations through x86 and SPARC This last category is comprised of the vendors that offer integrated servers to networking products and a so-called “integrated cloud product, solutions and services portfolios from a single source. machine”. Simultaneously, its list of business software and However, what really sets them apart from other competitors is that middleware was augmented with Java, Solaris and MySQL. But Oracle they also provide a concept of how future data centers and IT also inherited a few assets that it needs to put back on track, such as infrastructures should function – and a strategy to get there. This Sun’s storage unit. Further challenges could derive from the company’s description applies to HP, IBM and Fujitsu. acquisition policy: over the past decade, Oracle has bought more than 60 different companies – among them other big names such as HP has been the largest computer manufacturer worldwide for several PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and BEA – which sometimes resulted in years. But that’s not where its capabilities end: HP is also a market prolonged integration periods and temporary impairment of services. leader in peripherals, i.e. printers, scanners, and the likes. Its portfolio is completed by networking hardware, disk and tape storage, and a The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Coalition was formed in broad selection of software products. Services were first listed as a November 2009 and unites renowned companies from very different separate business segment after the merger with Compaq in 2002; segments of the IT market – namely VMware, Cisco and EMC. However, since then, HP has become the second largest IT services provider in this case the disparities are considered a valuable asset, since the globally – a success that is partly due to the 2008 acquisition of respective product portfolios complement one another: Cisco Electronic Data Systems (EDS), now known as HP Enterprise Services. contributes its line of Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers In the early 2000s, HP created the concept of adaptive computing – an plus networking equipment, EMC adds what is needed for data early precursor of current dynamic infrastructure and cloud computing storage and management, and VMware injects virtualization and solutions. Today, HP markets its related offerings under the label operating system expertise. The companies decided to cooperate with Converged Infrastructure, which encompasses four core elements: the specific aim to create a new major player in the cloud computing Operating Environment (management software), FlexFabric (switches, market, whose entry barriers would otherwise have been too high for network adapters, routers etc.), Virtual Resource Pools (‘classic’ IT any of the three participants. Betting on a rapid proliferation of products), and Data Center Smart Grid (a combined environmental/ private clouds, VCE have bundled up infrastructure packages – called facilities/ systems management solution to reduce energy Vblock – that correspond to reference architectures for small, medium consumption). With this lineup in place, the company’s value and large configurations. A virtual desktop infrastructure, integrated proposition is to change IT departments’ standard spending behavior – professional services and a virtual support center complete the 70 percent of investments go into operation and maintenance – and offering. Since Vblock are still very new to the market, no significant free up capacities for core business innovation. HP has earned lots of sales figures exist as yet. The packages themselves may appear respect due to its strong focus on technology and down-to-earth attractive especially to small and medium enterprises. But with handling of IT issues. However, combined with a dominant market implementations being scarce, a few insecurities remain: first off, position this approach may sometimes make it hard to think outside Cisco’s blades still have to prove if they can meet the ambitious of the HP universe. best-of-breed standard. Secondly, the alliance promised to find a balance between its best-of-breed approach to technology and IBM’s product catalog ranges from semiconductors to groupware and end-to-end vendor accountability. Yet so far only few people have from mainframes to systems based on x86 processors, storage and seen VCE support and services in action, so their capabilities and network management solutions. Consequently, its collection of performance are currently hard to assess. Customers with a need for infrastructure offerings – dubbed Dynamic Infrastructure – addresses robust solutions and reliable SLAs may therefore need more the following seven areas: asset management, service management, assessment for support and services from VCE. virtualization, energy efficiency, information infrastructure, business resiliency, and security. IBM’s true forte, however, lies in its consulting expertise. Since the foundation of its Global Services division in 1991, the company has continually expanded in the field. As a result the division is now the world’s largest business and technology services provider with offices in 170 countries. This huge success is based on a consistent methodology of linking IT and business processes with the aim of improving service, reducing costs and eliminating or mitigating risks. Still despite such achievements, IBM has incurred gaps in its portfolio. The best example might be the sale of its PC and notebook division to Chinese computer maker Lenovo. This “lack” is comparatively easy to deal with from a customer’s/user’s point of view; however, IBM’s approach to implementing its Dynamic Infrastructure model sometimes calls for a customer’s long term commitment, from the assessment to the transformation of IT infrastructures, hierarchies and even business models. IT decision makers need to evaluate if issues they are currently facing require either a transformation or an evolution. Page 7 of 9 www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic
  • 8. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures Fujitsu, as the last company from this category, has much in common with both IBM and HP: a near-complete offering of hardware, software and services, consulting expertise, and a consistent, proven strategic approach to IT solutions. With operations in 70 countries and more than 170,000 employees, the company ranks as the third-largest IT services provider worldwide and holds the first position in Japan. Based on a long-standing tradition of collaborative efforts with its customers as well as partners in the IT industry, Fujitsu has developed its own distinct but flexible concept and delivered state-of-the-art IT offerings. Fujitsu assembled its global service portfolio into three segments: business services, application services and Dynamic Infrastructures. Dynamic Infrastructures provide the basis to run upper layer application and business services. Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures consist of four “layers” that address different customer demands and levels of IT maturity: Infrastructure Products and Services (traditional hardware and software, product support), Fujitsu reevaluated Infrastructure Solutions (customizable solution packages for standard The market and technology analysis provided above shows that both business applications), Infrastructure as a Service (virtual server and offering the full technology spectrum in an integrated manner and storage capacities and office desktops that can be ordered on customer orientation are considered cardinal virtues in the IT demand), and Managed Infrastructure (transfer of IT operations to business. Yet many projects end in disappointing results; products, shared delivery centers). In this context, the Dynamic Infrastructures solutions and service contracts are often criticized for being oversized, concept serves as a framework for building and delivering inflexible or too costly. standardized IT capacities and functionalities that at the same time During the past 5 to 10 years, a growing number of hardware and fulfill individual needs. This holistic, customer-oriented approach software vendors as well as service providers have reacted to these ensures that Fujitsu focuses on enabling companies to solve their IT complaints. Based on a set of key technologies – such as multi-core processors/servers, 64-bit operating systems, new networking issues. standards, virtualization, and IT/business process automation – they are now delivering agile, “living” infrastructures and on-demand capacities instead of insular systems or segregated information silos. Pros and cons The core idea behind this new architecture model is to enable From a customer’s standpoint, the above descriptions lead to the enterprises to flexibly allocate physical and virtual server and storage following implications: capacities and turn them into dynamic resource pools that grow (or shrink) according to business demands – if need be, on a daily basis. First, horizontally focused vendors typically offer focused product Fujitsu has been a pioneer of this new approach from the start, as can and/or service portfolios – as opposed to a full spectrum of solutions. be concluded from many solutions in its Dynamic Infrastructures This is acceptable if your own demands are well defined, e.g. in case portfolio, which build on the company’s own product lines such as you want to purchase affordable hardware or need assistance with PRIMERGY servers and ETERNUS storage arrays. Examples include specific IT projects. However, depending on your IT department’s FlexFrame for SAP, a pre-configured and pre-tested combination of resources these offerings may not suffice when it comes to building servers, storage, networking devices and software needed for a lean, complete – or completely new – infrastructures. ready-to-run SAP implementation; and Virtual Workplace, a workplace solution in which traditional desktop PCs are replaced with Thin or Second, Oracle/Sun and the VCE Coalition are equipped with Zero Clients while all functionality resides in server-side virtual comprehensive catalogs of proven hardware and software products machines. Its cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings and solutions. The problem is that these cooperations/mergers are still provide IT functionalities and resources via secure VPN connections relatively fresh so that internal operations need time to become and let companies scale their environments in accordance with attuned to one another, which might result in issues regarding the expected workloads in a secure and organized manner; billing occurs integration of products as well as the consistency of service levels on a pay-as-you-go basis. Finally, Managed Infrastructure enables during the IT life cycle. enterprises to delegate their IT operations or vital parts thereof to Fujitsu while still retaining full control over their data and Third, for the time being, only vertically integrated companies are infrastructure. Along with the company’s solution- and prepared to meet the whole range of customer requirements – from customer-oriented approach, this comprehensive offering enables IT basic hardware purchases to designing and managing complex managers to make the choices that best suit their enterprise’s overall internal or external/cloud-based infrastructures. But the width and IT infrastructure and to select the most effective ways of leveraging depth of their portfolios and expertise bears a risk for their customers, alternative sourcing and delivery models. Thus, Fujitsu successfully as these vendors may feel tempted to guide them to their own “sweet assists IT managers in preparing for their next ambitious IT projects. spot”, i.e. a desired sale. IT decision makers need to be aware of that and prepare to ask a simple question: “Is this truly what we want/need?” Page 8 of 9 www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic
  • 9. White paper Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructures Conclusion An old commonplace tells us that “change is the only constant in IT”. Trivial as it may seem, this assertion has rarely been more fitting than today, where agility, flexibility, on-demand access to data and resources and cost efficiency have emerged as key values of a powerful enterprise IT that culminate in the cloud computing paradigm. But cloud computing is more than just a technological concept: the idea of limitless IT resources constantly available everywhere has triggered changes in user behavior, expectations and legal standards as well as the IT landscape. New services are starting daily, and new competitors appear almost as fast – the situation is roughly comparable to the days of the first Internet boom. In fact, the pressure is so high that even prominent hardware and software vendors and service providers are changing their hitherto successful business models and “going vertical”, as the examples of Oracle and the VCE Coalition attest. Against this backdrop, Fujitsu stands out as a reliable, experienced infrastructure provider with a coherent strategy and proven track record – a partner you wish for in so much upheaval. Contact © Copyright 2011 FUJITSU Technology Solutions, the Fujitsu logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of FUJITSU TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS Fujitsu Limited in Japan and other countries. Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or Address: Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 8, 80807 Munich, registered trademarks of their respective owners. Technical data subject to modification and delivery subject to Germany availability. Any liability that the data and illustrations are complete, actual or correct is excluded. Designations E-mail:dynamic.infrastructures@ts.fujitsu.com may be trademarks and/or copyrights of the respective manufacturer, the use of which by third parties for their Website: www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic own purposes may infringe the rights of such owner. Page 9 of 9 www.ts.fujitsu.com/dynamic