gen-i: business continuity considering reputation, security and virtualisation

Business ContinuityDamien TomanCTO, Gen-i

IBM Insight Forum 09 ®

“Today, it is not just the threat of floods, fires,

earthquakes, power outages and ICT administration

hiccups that we have to think about from a business

continuity perspective; we also need to seriously

consider business reputation and security of

information.”

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Damien Toman, CTO, Gen-i, August 2009.

Business Continuity

1. The role of virtualisation in Disaster Recovery

2. Managed Security solutions to minimise

business continuity

risks

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1. The role of virtualisation in Disaster Recovery

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Centralisation, Consolidation, Virtualisation

• Consolidation and Virtualisation of servers, minimising branch site equipment.

• Review application delivery and desktop management: desktop virtualisation with thin client delivery, application virtualisation, new approaches to fat clients with streaming of applications and even operating systems.

• Better Business Continuity & DR• Reducing Costs with Greener IT• Virtualisation of Storage with Thin Provisioning,

De-Duplication & Tiering

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IBM server and storage virtualization solutions optimize dynamic virtual infrastructure across the enterprise

ExtensiveOptimized

Robust

Extreme virtualization with massive scalability and advanced security.

IBM System z™

IBM System Storage™

IBM Power™ Systems

IBM BladeCenter® IBM System x™

Highly scalable storage virtualization for SAN and NAS environments.

Highly integrated, fully redundant, energy efficient with advanced I/O.

Manage your entire datacenter -- physical and virtual -- from one place.

Dynamic resource allocation with advanced mobility for AIX, Linux & IBM i OS.

More workloads consolidated on fewer servers with exceptional reliability.

4th generation X-Architecture®

CoolBlue™ - Power and Cooling designs that lead the industry

IBM Systems Director

IBM Insight Forum 09

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Customer Example of Savings

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“What could the IT

department of tomorrow

look like?”

“In many organizations, everything

customer-facing will be hosted

externally on scalable virtualized

infrastructures and enterprise

applications of all kinds will be

services provided by

Software-As-A-Service

vendors.”

Quote from Mark Gibbs, consultant NetworkWorld in USA, from Computerworld

article.

Gen-i Cloud Computing Services

Storage as a

Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a

Service

Software as a

Service

Management &

Provisioning

Virtualisation

Disks

Management &

Provisioning

Virtualisation

Management &

Provisioning

Management &

ProvisioningConfigurators/

APIs

Application Software

Virtual Platform Software

Virtual Platform Software

Disks

Disks

Disks

Servers

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

• Box.net• Nirvanix• Google Base• Mozy.com• Amazon Simple

DB• TrackVia• Microsoft SSDS

• Amazon • Joynet• Terremark• Sun Network.com• HP Flexible

Computing Services• IBM Blue Cloud• 3 Tera• OpSource.net• Jamcracker.com

• Bungee Connect• Etelos• Coghead• Google App Engine• HP Adaptive

Infrastructure as a Service

• Salesforce Force.com• Oracle SaaS Platform• Longjump• AT&T Synaptic

Hosting

• Oracle On Demand Applications

• Salesforce SFA• NetSuite ERP• Google Apps• Workday HCM• Testra T-Suite

Example Services

Source: Yankee 2008

Gen-i focus


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Server Consolidation & Virtualisation

“Enterprises that do not leverage virtualization technologies will spend 25% more annually for hardware, software, labor, and space

for x86-based servers”

-- Gartner Report

2. Managed Security solutions to minimise business continuity

risks

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Questions

How are you protecting your business reputation?

What impact on your business bottom line?

Do you understand the risks?

Have you considered the impact on your customers,

your services, your products, your partners, your

suppliers, your stakeholders?

Do you know how you will recover?

How often do you update your plans?

Do you have all the skills to do it yourself?

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Reputation

33% of consumers notified of a security breach

will terminate their relationship with the company

they perceive as responsible.

A US company at $48 per share had an

information theft incident reported on TV. Share

price dropped to $37 = $809M market capital

loss.

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Selective Outsourcing

Enables focus on Core Business

Predictable Scalable Costs – with savings

Service Delivery Platform with ITIL- Aligned

Service Desk

Leveraging scale of service provider

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Managed Security Solution

Addressing today’s security, resiliency, and

compliance challenges.

Preparing for the new risks posed by an even

more connected and collaborative web 2.0

world.

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Gen-i Safewall with IBM ISS Managed Security Services

Managing your on-site multi-vendor security systems: Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Protection, AntiVirus, Web & email filtering and pre-emptive Vulnerability Management.


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• Reduce costs by up to 55% while improving security.

• Protection Guarantee – “$US50,000 Back on a Hack”

• On-site 24x7 Managed Security Services

Business Continuity and Security

Gen-i Safewall

Gen-i Safewall with IBM X-Force Threat Management

IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® R&D team: the world’s leading enterprise security organisation.

Focus is on analysing and researching vulnerabilities to develop pre-emptive protection technologies.

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Gen-i Safewall with IBM X-Force

Most comprehensive Vulnerability Database in the world across 7000 vendors.

The X-Force database currently tracks over 14000 products, 31000 versions.

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7 Security Operations Centers

6 Security Research Centers

133 Monitored Countries

TJ Watson, USAlamden,

US

Zurich, CH

New Delhi, IN

Haifa,IL

Tokyo, JP

Boulder, US

Atlanta, US

Detroit, US

Toronto, CA

Tokyo, JP

Brisbane, AU

Brussels, BE

+ +

17,000+ managed devices

2600+ MSS

Customers world wide

2,500,000,000 Events per

day+ + +

IBM Global Security Operations

Gen-i Safewall Integrating Multi-Vendor Security Solutions

Gen-i Safewall Integrating Multi-Vendor Security Solutions with Portal for Visibility

We’re all about outcomes. We just happen to use technology to bring them about

Gen-i Safewall Portal

Gen-i Safewall

62 Customers already Others in implementation phase now On-site Managed, Hosted (Cloud) or

integrated combination of both.

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Question

Would you like some help evaluating the scope and effectiveness of your current security solutions?

Answer:

1. Yes 2. No.

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Safewall Demo Workshop

Hands-on demo of Safewall this afternoon by Mike Conboy from Gen-i.

Security the easy way with Safewall a Gen-i/IBM multi-vendor integrated solution.

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Thank you

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