Customer Needs
GE Access Consolidation Strategies
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Customer Needs
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Server Consolidation
Storage Consolidation
Network Consolidation
Virtualization
Improve Manageability
Enhance IT staff efficiency
Physical Consolidation
Resource Utilization
Manage Acquisition Costs
Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs
Minimizing Opportunity Costs
Fast Response Time
Fast Service Time
Scalability
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Security and Privacy
Connectivity
Reliability
Disaster Recovery
Availability
Security
Interoperability
Application Integration
System and Data Integration
Strategic Enablement
Real-time Change Management
Faster Application Development
Minimize Business Interruption
eBusiness Scalability
Customer Need:
Server Consolidation
• The merging of applications, databases and
services onto fewer, highly reliable servers
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Better asset utilization
Elimination of unnecessary systems
Reduce staffing
Lower maintenance costs
Reduce number of operating environments
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Server Consolidation
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Sun Fire Servers
Binary compatibility
Provide continuous availability
Scalability
Performance
Increased flexibility
Better resource management
Investment protection
Sun Fire Servers
Customer Need:
Storage Consolidation
• Improve data access for all users
• Improve IT data flows
• Maximize utilization of IT personnel, facility, and
system resources
• Increase the number of terabytes that can be
administered by a single person
• Save valuable data center floor space or even
recover floor tiles
• Lower maintenance and service costs
• Fewer hardware components
• Fewer software licenses
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Storage Consolidation
• Consolidating multiple servers into a multi-domain
server and combining the storage into a single
storage platform
• Consolidating just the storage subsystems into a
single storage subsystem
• Consolidate storage islands into fully implemented
storage Area Networks (SAN’s)
Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches
Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers
Veritas High Availability Solutions
Hitachi Thunder & Lightning
StorageTek Disk D Series
Customer Need:
Network Consolidation
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Improve quality of service
Increase the amount of data transfer
Increase transfer speeds
Accommodate increased network traffic
Enable remote access
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Network Consolidation
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Faster throughput
Minimize bottlenecks
More efficient data replication
Superior IT service management
Remote access
Extreme Networks
HP Open View
Tarantella
Customer Need:
Virtualization
• Increase flexibility and responsiveness of the
infrastructure
• Shorten lead times
• Achieve economies of scale
• Manage more resources with fewer staff
• Be able to easily add or swap out system
resources
• Applications are fully isolated
– Containing resources
– Isolating faults
– Ensuring domain security
“Do more with less.”
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Virtualization
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Full resource containment and control
Security isolation
Fault isolation
Service Management Application
No physical limitations
• N1
– Sun’s strategy virtualises
all of a company’s computing
resources
Solaris 9 Containers
Sun N1
Veritas’ High Availability Solutions
Customer Need:
Improve Manageability
• Improve the reliability, availability, serviceability
and manageability of IT services
• More efficiently manage workloads
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Resource partitioning
Workload classification
Resource control
Resource accounting
• Improve service levels and quality
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Improve Manageability
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Improve workload management
System-wide resource management
Single point of management
Custom resource allocation policies
Remote system configuration
Monitor performance
Isolate hardware and software faults
Storage-virtualization technology
Solaris 9
Sun Technology
Veritas’ High Availability Solutions
Customer Need:
Enhance IT Staff Efficiency
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Make better use of skilled and scarce IT labor
Upgrade level of IT skills
Reduce headcount
Greater productivity per IT professional
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Enhance IT Staff Efficiency
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Sun’s Binary Compatibility
Consistent methodology
In-depth hardware and service monitoring
Agent technology and sophisticated controls by
administrator
• Optimize storage resource utilization and simplify
administration in heterogeneous environments
Sun’s Binary Compatibility
Sun Management Centers
Veritas Storage Management Solutions
Customer Need:
Physical Consolidation
• Consolidate servers in one central location
• Make better use of resources
• Reduce staffing
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Physical Consolidation
• Unified and automated storage management
solution
• Multi-domain server and single storage platform
• Single storage subsystem
• Storage Area Networks (SAN’s)
Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches
Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers
Veritas High Availability Solutions
Hitachi Thunder & Lightning
StorageTek Disk D Series
Customer Need:
Resource Utilization
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Improve servers utilization
Reduce aggregate capacity
Enable shared resources
Reduce TCO
Reduce unplanned downtime
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Resource Utilization
• Domain partitioning
• Dynamic reconfiguration
• System-wide resource management
Sun Fire Servers
Solaris Resource Manager
Customer Need:
Manage Acquisition Costs
• Reduce the numbers of machines a company
needs to support its IT services
• Reduce the costs of purchasing and maintaining
multiple operating system environments
• Watch out for deceptive ROI analysis
– Project-specific ROI’s build inefficiencies
• Increasing proportion of IT resources
devoted to infrastructures
• Less money to invest in new
application functionality
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Manage Acquisition Costs
• Single operating system reduces a TCO
• Solaris - 9 generations of backward compatibility
• Sun financing programs- Capacity on Demandenables you to “buy as you go”
• Open architecture and virtualization lower upfront
investment costs
• “Pay-as-you-go” scalability
• Just-in-time purchasing
Sun Technology
Hitachi Freedom Storage
StorageTek D-Series
GE Access’ Financial Services Group
Customer Need:
Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs
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Reduce headcount
Improve efficiency
Reduce costs of
Managing the network
Systems
Storage
Providing end-user support
Administration
Training
Purchasing
Help desks
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs
• Sun’s Architectural Consistency
• Hitachi Freedom Storage
• StorageTek L Series Tape Library
Sun Architectural Consistency
Hitachi Freedom Storage
StorageTek L Series Tape Library
Customer Need:
Minimizing Opportunity Costs
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Cost of unplanned downtime
Angry and lost customers
Missed e-business opportunities
Degrading customer satisfaction ratings
Liabilities caused by improperly tracked
transactions
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Minimizing Opportunity Costs
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Minimize both planned and unplanned downtime
Disruption protection even in the case of failure
Data backup and recovery protects critical data
Back up data with non-disruptive, real-time copies
Redundant, hot-swappable components with no
single point of failure maintains business continuity
• Migrate and store your data in secure, off site
facilities
Sun Solaris RAS Functionality
Veritas Data Protection
Hitachi Freedom Storage Solutions
StorageTek L Series Tape Library
Customer Need:
Fast Response Time
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Reduce time taken by a system to respond to user
Reduce system overhead
Increase network bandwidth
Minimize delays
Increase productivity
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Fast Response Time
• SAN architecture enables storage area network
management
– Consolidate storage resources on the network
– Optimize resource utilization
– Improve response time
• Optimise storage resource utilization
• Simplify administration
• Complete solution including switches
Sun StoreEdge
Open SAN Solutions
Veritas Network Storage Management Software
StorageTek D-Series Software and Storage Devices
Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches
Fast Service Time
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Reduce response time
Faster transaction processing
Faster order fulfillment
Improve organizational responsiveness
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Fast Service Time
• 24/7 availability
• Outstanding throughput speed for global data
access
• High application availability
• Instant data access
• Disruption-free operations
• Comprehensive data protection
Sun Fire Servers & Sun StorEdge Storage Arrays
StorageTek D-Series
Customer Need:
Scalability
• Ability to quickly and cost effectively scale IT
infrastructures
• Increase throughput
• Minimize impact on ongoing IT productivity and
services
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Scalability
• Sun’s binary compatibility
• Easy migration path to increase capacity and
performance
Sun’s Platform Scalability
StorageTek D-Series Storage Systems
Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series
Customer Need:
Security and Privacy
• Protect customer and employee data from
unauthorized use and distribution
• Protect against electronic theft and fraud
• Intrusion detection
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Security and Privacy
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Network-centric security
Password protection
Encryption
Protect and securely connect offices of all sizes
Security, reliability and ease of use for mobile and
networked workforce
• Simplified, proactive, protection against security
attacks
Sun Platform Security
CheckPoint
Nokia
Internet Security Systems (ISS)
Customer Need:
Connectivity
• Maintain a dialogue with trading partners
• Iterative, ongoing interactivity with customers
• Increase permeability of the company’s boundaries
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Connectivity
• Balance the increasing desire for connectivity with
the limitations of living with legacy system
Sun ONE Services on Demand
Customer Need:
Reliability
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Improve accuracy of transactions
Two-phase commit
Real-time logging
Recoverability of transaction records
Increase velocity of response
Reduce variability
Minimize impact of change
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Reliability
• Built-in redundancies to negate any single points
of failure
• Hot swappable components and advanced online
serviceability reduce downtime
• Resource allocation across individual domains on
the fly
• Allocate shares of system resources to various
workloads
Sun RAS Functionality
Solaris Resource Manager
Veritas Storage Management Software
Customer Need:
Disaster Recovery
• Recover records in case of an outage, system
failure or operator error
• Support continuous business operations during a
disastrous occurrence
• Support continuous business operations during a
disastrous occurrence
• Conduct extremely rapid fail over without losing or
corrupting records
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Disaster Recovery
• Fault-tolerant system with fully redundant, hotinstallable/hot-replaceable components
• Power alternatives for all duplicated components
• Minimal interruptions even in heterogeneous
environments
• Off site data storage that doesn’t disrupt your
regular data flow
• Any-to-any connectivity
Sun’s Disaster Recovery Functionality
Veritas Disaster Recovery
Hitachi Multiplatform Backup/Restore
StorageTek L Series Tape Library
Customer Need:
Availability
• Delivery of efficient IT service with no outages
visible to users
• Minimize planned outages for tasks such as
hardware and software upgrades, application and
database changes, and preventative maintenance
• Avoid the disruptive effects of unplanned outages
• Minimize any negative impact of workload surges
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Availability
• Point-in-time copy and remote mirroring helps
reduce disruptions
• Create custom resource allocation policies based
on individual and group needs
• Manage workloads and allocate resources where
and when they are needed
• Manage workloads and allocate resources where
and when they are needed
• SAN technology improves
data availability
Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches
Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire Servers
Veritas High Availability Solutions
Hitachi Thunder & Lightning
StorageTek Disk D Series
Customer Need:
Security
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Firewalls need to be installed and administered
Virus protection
Intrusion detection and response
Auditing and analysis
Minimize labor costs
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Security
• Network-centric security
• Protect and securely connect offices of all sizes
• Security reliability and ease of use for mobile
workforce
• Simplified, proactive, protection against security
attacks
• Authenticate software and hardware tokens, smart
cards and digital certificates
Sun’s Network-Centric Security
CheckPoint
Nokia
Internet Security Systems
RSA Security
Customer Need:
Interoperability
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Improve back-end integration
Minimize costs of Interoperability
Improve IT Performance
Provide better information
Enable cross-functional and inter-enterprise
application and data sharing
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Interoperability
• Open architecture and commitment to open
standards ensures application interoperability
• Open, published standards provides greater choice
of products that they will all work together
Sun ONE
Solaris 9
Application Integration
• Reduce management complexity
• Improve resource management and utilization
• Decrease costs associated with buying, building
and administering multiple applications
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Application Integration
• Lower the lower the complexity of your data center
by hosting multiple apps on a single server
• Cluster software allows a single application or
series of applications to run across multiple
domains or systems
• Enhanced manageability, availability and
performance of databases and applications
improves application integration
Veritas Storage Management Software
Sun’s Dynamic System Domains
Sun’s Cluster Software
System and Data Integration
• Increase interoperability and data access
• Support sustained workload growth over long
periods with little or no increase in costs
• Better resource utilization
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
System and Data Integration
• Sun’s Data Center Consolidation Solution
improving efficiency and reducing complexity
• Hitachi Freedom Storage reduces storage
management complexity
• Veritas Storage Management Software simplifies
the administration of heterogeneous environments
dramatically improvising application and systems
integration initiatives
Sun’s Data Center Consolidation Solution
Hitachi Freedom Storage
Veritas Storage Management Software
Customer Need:
Strategic Enablement
• Easier access to information
• Support innovative process
• Support empowered teams
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Strategic Enablement
• GE Access Professional Services
– Centralized resource for the consulting, technical,
educational and professional service organizations
• Sun, Veritas, Hitachi and StorageTek
– Source contracts with other systems integrators
• EDS, CapGemini, Accenture
• Sun Professional Services
– Map business strategy to technology roadmap
GE Access Professional Services
Sun Professional Services
Customer Need:
Real-time Change Management
• Support innovation
• Increase systems flexibly to enable organizational
responsiveness
• Migrate to an open architecture
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Real-time Change Management
• Sun’s Open Architecture
• Highly reliable, available and secure technologies
Solaris 9
SunOne
Customer Need:
Faster Application Development
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Simpler, more efficient development environment
Minimize political issues
Support evolutionary business change
Increase organizational responsiveness
Sun Technology
Hitachi Freedom Storage
StorageTek D-Series
GE Access’ Financial Services Group
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Faster Application Development
• Quickly integrate new, empowering functionality
into mission critical business solutions
• Open architecture supports a wide range of bestof-breed solutions
• Over 13,000, third party applications that written
for the Solaris operating system and the Sun
platform
Sun ISV Partnerships
Customer Need:
Minimize Business Interruption
• Minimize impact of outages and downtime
• Improve resource utilization and productivity
• Track costs resulting from downtime
– Loss of current and future revenue
– Opportunity costs of being late to market
– Bottlenecks that affect operating efficiency
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
Minimize Business Interruption
• Can support millions of users
• Enable continuous uptime & application availability
• Comprehensive monitoring and reporting of
business-critical systems
• Better control and management
• Integrate data centralized and distributed data
ensures data availability
Sun RAS Features
Hitachi Freedom Storage
Veritas Data Protection Suite
Customer Need:
eBusiness Scalability
• Ability cost effectively scale to meet support
eBusiness opportunities
• Support workload spikes caused by daily or weekly
cycles and seasonal peaks
• Support increased complexity
• Scale to accommodate peaks and sudden spikes in
usage
GE Access Consolidation Strategy:
eBusiness Scalability
• Cross-generational and cross-product line binary
compatibility ensure the highest levels of
scalability
– Expand more rapidly
– Less expensively
– Less risk
• Easy migration path to increase capacity and
performance
• Non-disruptive expansion
Sun’s Platform Scalability
StorageTek D-Series Storage Systems
Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series