2. The business is getting more impatient with IT
New ideas/projects/products to market faster than ever
User are bypassing IT
The benchmark for speed, price and ease of use is the
public internet
Efficiency and cost is still a key factor
IT not only needs to support fast changing business
demands – they need to enable them
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3. On the IT agenda
Consolidation
Automation and orchestration of resources
Converged networks (Ethernet everywhere)
Move more and more applications into a virtualised
infrastructure (HA/DR)
Higher resource utilisation – low operational overhead
Dynamic provisioning of all resources – grow/shrink
Improved provisioning time – from weeks to minutes
Handle diverse and unpredictable workloads
Support dynamic and appropriate service levels
Embrace the cloud, build, buy and integrate private and public clouds
Shared virtual and secure infrastructure and a cloud sourcing
strategy
5. Virtual data centre and private cloud solutions in the
real world
Compute/application deployment File/content distribution and access
Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform
Metering Module Portal
Atmos Software
Web Service APIs File Services
Namespace/Multi-tenancy/ Policies/Data Services
Billions of objects, exabytes of capacity, multiple sites
Atmos Hardware Atmos Virtual
Edition
VMware vSphere and
Industry-standard
VMware-supported
servers/storage
servers/storage