Data Center Management
Microsoft System Center
Objective: Drive Cost of Data
Center Management
22% New
78% Maintenance
Issue:
78% of IT budgets spent on maintenance activities, trends increase pressure
Reducing The Cost of Your Data
Center Management
Cross Platform
Unified Physical and
Virtual Management
End to End Management
Centralized Management
Cost Impact Of Microsoft Management
In The Data Center
Driver
Cost Benefit
Physical and virtual
Standard tools
Automation
Efficiency
Knowledge
Faster TCO
Availability
Lower % unplanned
Per Physical Device
Licensing
Lower initial and
ongoing costs
“If my central console can manage both my Microsoft virtual
machines and my VMware virtual machines with an
interface that is familiar and easy for my Microsoft certified
staff, that's a big plus.”
Brent Register Client/Server Engineering Manager, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Reduced hardware
expenditure by 50%
through consolidation,
while dramatically
reducing deployment
times.
Initially utilized VMware
but saw need to reduce
cost of virtualization so
focused on Hyper-V and
System Center.
Once Microsoft
virtualization
technologies were
introduced, they saw
significant reduction in
the need for training.
Management Moves Front and Center
Servers must be configured
and optimized
Increasing power and space concerns
Greater number of deployments
and updates
Must support compliance, process
and controls
More internal and external pressures
Access drives security and protection
Must be available and responsive
Higher service levels demanded
Importance of interoperability
and openness
Must ensure business continuity
and dependable recovery
Centralized assets drives disaster
contingency
Virtualization for business continuity
Data Center Management Solutions
Configuration
Management
Automated
Provisioning
and Updating
of Physical
and Virtual
Environments
Server
Consolidation
Through
Virtualization
End to End
Monitoring
Proactive Platform
Monitoring
Application &
Service Level
Monitoring
Interoperable
and Extensible
Platform
Server
Compliance
Configuration
Controls and
Reporting
Centralized
Security Auditing
Comprehensive
Security & Identity
and Access Mgmt
Data Protection
and Recovery
Business Continuity
Through
Virtualization
Management
Backup
and Recovery of
Physical and Virtual
Resources
Disaster Recovery
Automated Server Provisioning and Updating
Lowering the Cost of Data Center Deployment
Challenges
Addressed
Server
Configuration
Capabilities
Configuration
Management
Power, space and maintenance costs forcing more efficient
use of resources
Dispersed servers and applications difficult to manage and
update resulting in higher costs and underutilized systems
Manage virtual machines to consolidate physical servers
Centralize, automate and manage both physical and virtual
server software deployments in the data center
Reduce operational costs with
automated server deployment
patching and updating for physical and
virtual servers
Cut hardware and maintenance costs
with server consolidation servers with
virtualization and management
Saved U.S.$2
million using System
Center to create a
unified, centrallymanaged virtual
data center
End to End Monitoring
Challenges
Addressed
Application and
Service Level
Monitoring
End to End
Monitoring
Ensure IT services, applications and servers run
smoothly
Meet service levels to ensure optimal uptime and
responsiveness
Monitor applications end to end to support end user
based service level agreements
Dashboards and reports allow faster problem resolution,
delivering improved availability and performance
Drive down operational costs by
proactively spotting issues before they
cause application downtime
Remove duplicate tools and reports
with visibility into complete application
environment and across platforms
Increased productivity of
systems by 10% and
boosted application
availability to deliver over
$10m extra revenue
Server Compliance
Configuration controls and centralized audit of system security
Challenges
Addressed
Regulations and business policies mandating configuration
and security controls are enforced
Increasing demands to retain security event information to
improve security and meet compliance needs
Server
Compliance
Capabilities
Create, maintain and report on configuration controls for the
data center environment
Gather and report security related events
Manage identities, access and improve security in the data
center
Server
Compliance
Lower cost of meeting
compliance requirements with
automated configuration
controls
Consolidate and deliver
security audit data and
reporting without expensive
manual processes
Cut security audit time
by 30% while saving 10
to 20 hours per week in
management
deployment times
Data Protection and Recovery
Backup and restore & business continuity through virtualization
Challenges
Addressed
Data Protection
and Recovery
Capabilities
Data Protection and
Recovery
Demand for business continuity driving increased costs
related to geoclustering and new technology investments
Centralized data centers causing more risk of downtime and
data loss in the event of a disaster or outage
Ensure business continuity and responsiveness with server
virtualization management
Recover and restore physical and virtual environments after
an outage, data loss or corruption
Lower cost back and recovery
solution for critical Microsoft
applications
Drive down cost of business
continuity through combination
of virtualization and back up /
restore management
Reduced cost of backing
up Exchange and SQL
Server with savings of
over $30,000 per year,
while reducing IT effort
by six hours per week
“Cutting costs as we continue to grow is a challenge, but is
important to the bank so that we can use the cash to drive
our global expansion,” explains Thomsen. “Virtualization is a
great technology to help us achieve our goals.”
Solutions Architect at Saxo Bank
The virtualization project
is expected to produce a
projected cost
reductions of up to 6.8
million kroner
(U.S.$1,450,000) per
year in 2010.
25 percent of its core
banking applications
and 80 percent of noncore applications running
in a virtual environment
by the end of 2009.
Delivered server
consolidation of 36%,
with internal rate of return
of 150%.
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