changing the virtualization landscape
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Changing the Virtualization LandscapeChanging the Virtualization Landscape
Solution Center Launch2nd February 2009
The next challenge: Virtualization
EMC Velocity model
Provides a long term, aspirational growth path for Solution and Affiliate partners
Solution CentersPartners with expertise in Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, or Cisco, and Authorized Services Network members
Affiliate PartnersPartners who sell Velocity2 products and access the program through the EMC distribution network
Solution PartnersPartners accredited in EMC’s Proven Professional Program solutions expertise
EMC Solution Center EMEA – 2008
A Partner and EMC showcase for Proven Solutions, a unique setting in which to test, prove and blueprint EMC hardware and software and Partner services• Complete integration
—hardware, software and services
• Solutions and product demonstrations
• Modular Proven Solutions• Virtualization solutions• Application testing• Application migrations• Workshops • POCs
What is an EMC Solution Center?
Many virtualization opportunities
Virtualization is transformational
Delivering huge advantages
Before VMware
Before VMwareServers 1,000Storage Direct AttachNetwork (Cables/Ports) 3,000Facilities (Racks) 200Power Whips 400
After VMwareServers 80Storage Tiered SAN/NASNetwork (Cables/Ports) 400Facilities (Racks) 10Power Whips 20
Solving a range of issues
Yet raising customer expectations
Data growthDifficult to extract business valueNot controlledUnstructured
Financial PressuresBudgets squeezedNew business challengesPeople costs
Organizational CostsPower cooling spaceBusiness continuity 24/7 availability
ComplexityRegulatory requirement Multi-vendor environmentIT manageability
Increased simplicity More for less
More servicesImproved SLAs
The opportunity to see, touch, work
• ‘See the future’ of advanced information management technologies and to test them in a live environment
• De-risk your investment in information management technologies thanks to proof of concept capability—“you know it will work”
• Create multi-phase project plans by ongoing utilisation of the Solution Centre as a test and development facility
• Reduce costs by creating lean solutions that exactly map your requirements—and can be proven
• Have the reassurance of working with the world’s information management dream team—EMC, VMWare, Cisco, Emulex
Summary