softchoice/ibm social media and big data presentation - bc misa fall 2011
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MISA 2011 Social Media Presentation
Interconnected technologies are changing the way the world works. Consumer services and Social Media are rapidly changing the expectations of our end users in the workplace. This presentation will address why infrastructure matters on the road to smarter computing, and how we can best leverage our existing infrastructure to provide next generation services to our users.
Dan Sylvester
Softchoice Corporation
Solutions Architect
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Agenda - “Today’s Goals”
Introduction to Softchoice
Our social media journey so far
How that will impact our infrastructures
Trends and Potential Solutions
Discuss how next-generation virtualized storage is key to strategically delivering IT as a service
Softchoice at a Glance
• $1.8 billion in Sales (2010)
• #1 MS EA Advisor in North America
• 40+ local sales offices & 5 call centers
• 19,000 Customers
• Fastest growing NA Solutions provider
• 900 employees
• Canada’s Top Solution Provider
– Computer Dealer News Magazine
• Canadian Headquarters• Traded on TSX Symbol: SO
Softchoice Locations
Over 40 local sales offices and 5 call centres in North America
Softchoice Enterprise Architecture Group
A team of locally available, highly qualified Solution Architects Storage Networks Microsoft Servers Virtualization Security
Available at no charge to assist our customers in understanding the latest technology developments
Help them develop their vision and strategies through a vendor agnostic, needs assessment approach
Our Social Media Strategy
Scale and amplify our thought-leadership across our business and beyond it’s borders
Our Constituents: Who we want to engage with
Internal Audience Sales
Pre-sales
Marketing
External Audience Customers!
Vendor partners
Career candidates
The world at large
Getting our folks onboard
Evolving World
Data Explosion
2009:0.8 Zb
Source: IDC Digital Universe Study, May 20102020: 35.2Zb
Growing By AFactor Of 44!
Goals of Traditional Internal IT
Broker Services
Support those services through standardization
Secure Corporate Data
Accelerate and Enable the Business
User Expectations
Users use whatever hardware they want Data should be secure and accessible from
anywhere Services should never be down IT should always support them
Cloud
Changing the economics of IT
Improve Service
Reduce Costs
Utilize Existing Infrastructure
Manage Risk
Maximize Internal Resources
Why IBM
Simplify Management
Provide Choice
Converged Infrastructure
Reduce Costs
Servers
Networking
Management
Storage
Storage Virtualization
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Easy Tier Storage Tiering
Easy Tier’s Basic Capabilities
The combination of Easy Tier and the
Storage Tier Advisor performs the following
three basic functions:
Workload hotspot analysis
Continuous workload monitoring
Smart data
Data tiering capabilities can help your
organization balance the cost of storage
with the value of data.
Reducing Costs
5000 SVC systems shipped since announcement making the SVC a market leader in Storage Virtualization.
Improved Storage Administration with single point of control
Improved Storage efficiency by allowing businesses to leverage unused disk capacity.
Complements Server Virtualization
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Storwize V7000
Released –
October 2010
V7000
• Supports over 50 vendors including EMC, HP and SUN.
• Protect your existing disk systems by virtualizing them.
• Apply advance features like thin provisioning, EasyTier and Flashcopy to existing disk subsystems
• Virtualize up to 2 PB of external storage.
Released – June 2003
V7000
Thank You!