Solutions

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The Advancements of Virtualization Technologies
The Top Rated Technology in 2009
December 2009
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IT- Solution BU Pillars

• IT-Solutions Business Unit offerings

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IT Service Management Overview

• ITSM involves embracing a set of well defined
  best practices like ITIL that facilitate delivery
  of cost effective, quality IT services. The best
  practices should be adapted within an
  organization environment by addressing a
  combination of people, process and technology
  issues.

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IT Service Management Products Services

• IT Management Products and Solutions
• Service desk
• Service-level management
• Change and configuration management
• IT asset management
• Network management
• Business Service Management
• DBMS management .
• Server management
• Application management
• Event management
• Job scheduling

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IT Service Management Products Services

• ITSM Services
• ITIL Process Maturity Assessment provides
  Organizations with an assessment for ITIL process
  maturity within the establishment. It uses an
  approach to evaluate the organizations
  effectiveness in managing key activities
  described in the operational and tactical areas
  of the ITIL IT service management best practices
  framework.
• ISO 20000 Assessment and Certification provides
  a formal and universal standard for organizations
  seeking to have their service management
  capabilities audited and certified. ISO/IEC 20000
  is the first formal international standard
  specifically related to IT service management.
  AlkanCIT ISO/IEC 20000 consulting practice
  provides a rapid assessment of the current state
  of Organizations ITSM processes, policies, and
  current capabilities to achieve certification and
  your key business objectives.

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IT Service Management Products Services

• ITSM Services (cont.)
• Implementation of IT Management / ITSM Projects
  AlkanCIT has extensive experience in the
  implementation of ITSM projects with major
  Organizations including Telecom operators,
  financial institution, Airline Carriers etc.
  AlkanCIT implementation team is comprised from a
  number of certified consultants in different
  domains . AlkanCIT team follows state of the art
  implementation standards to make sure that the
  ITIL implementation is beneficial for the
  Organization
• ITIL Training and Certification . The training
  focuses on taking a holistic approach to IT
  service management through the use of processes,
  and workflows. The courses also prepare
  participants for the examination leading to the
  certificate in IT service management,

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ECM Overview
It is the set of technologies and tools used to
Capture, Manage, Store, Preserve and Deliver
content across the enterprise allowing to help
organizations manage and secure their
unstructured content through all phases of this
content lifecycle
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• ECM Products and solutions
• Document Management/Archiving Solutions
• Business Process Management
• Web Content Management
• Information Rights Management
• Records Management
• Digital Asset Management

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Enterprise Asset Management Overview
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is an
integrated solution used to design, build,
procure, operate, maintain, modify and dispose
enterprises assets such as buildings, real
estate, facilities, fleet
OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS Mobile Dispatch GIS Outag
e Management SCADA/DCS Document Management Dat
a Historian
ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT Customer Information Syste
m Financial Management Human
Resource Management Business Intelligence
KPIs Unitization Reporting
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Virtualization Overview
Virtualization is a technology that lets
Organizations run multiple virtual machines on a
single physical machine, sharing the resources of
that single computer across multiple
environments. Virtualization technology
improves IT resources utilization and increases
the flexibility needed to adapt to changing
requirements and workloads. Also virtualization
allows and facilitates Disaster Recovery,
Business Continuity and Data Protection. Accordin
g to Gartner, Virtualization is ranked as one of
the top 10 technologies in 2008 2009 and 2010.
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Virtualization Overview
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Gartner Identification for the Top 10 Strategic
Technologies

• Gartner definition of Strategic technology
• one with the potential for significant impact on
  the enterprise in the next three years.
• significant impact include a high potential for
  disruption to IT or the business, the need for a
  major dollar investment, or the risk of being
  late to adopt.
• These technologies impact the organization's
  long-term plans, programs and initiatives. They
  may be strategic because they enable strategic
  advantage from early adoption.

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Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic
Technologies for 2008,

• The top 10 strategic technologies for 2008
  include
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• Green IT.  
• Unified Communications. 
• Business Process Modeling.  
• Metadata Management. 
• Virtualization  
• Mashup Composite Apps. .
• Web Platform WOA. .
• Computing Fabric. 
• Real World Web.  
• Social Software. 

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Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic
Technologies for 2009,

• The top 10 strategic technologies for 2009
  include
• Virtualization.  
• Cloud Computing.
• Servers Beyond Blades. 
• Web-Oriented Architectures.
• Enterprise Mashups.
• Specialized Systems.
• Social Software and Social Networking.
• Unified Communications.
• Business Intelligence.
• Green IT.

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Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic
Technologies for 2010,
The top 10 strategic technologies for 2010
include Cloud Computing. Advanced Analytics.
Client Computing. IT for Green. Reshaping the
Data Center.. Social Computing. Security
Activity Monitoring. Flash Memory.
Virtualization for Availability. Mobile
Applications.
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Virtualization for Availability (Acc. To Gartner)
. Virtualization has been on the list of top
strategic technologies in previous years. It is
on the list this year because Gartner emphases
new elements such as live migration for
availability that have longer term implications.
Live migration is the movement of a running
virtual machine (VM), while its operating system
and other software continue to execute as if they
remained on the original physical server.
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Virtualization for Availability (Acc. To
Gartner),

• . The key value proposition is to displace a
  variety of separate mechanisms with a single
  dial that can be set to any level of
  availability from baseline to fault tolerance.
• . Expensive high-reliability hardware, with
  fail-over cluster software and perhaps even
  fault-tolerant hardware could be dispensed with,
  but still meet availability needs.
• This is key to cutting costs, lowering
  complexity, as well as increasing agility as
  needs shift.

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The Result Saving Energy
Financial Energy
Human Energy
Earths Energy
Capital and datacenter costs
Average power,cooling and realestate needs
Time spent on routine admin tasks
Organizations are looking at ways to cut costs,
betterutilize assets, and reduce implementation
and management time and complexity.
Virtualization addresses all of these
concerns. Gartner
Source Gartner Dataquest Insight
Virtualization Market Size Driven by Cost
Reduction, Resource Utilization, and Management
Advantages, Jan09
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Recent CIO Surveys Agree Virtualization is the
Top CIO Priority in a Tough Economic Environment
Source Merrill Lynch CIO Survey, Oct 28th,
2008 Source Goldman Sachs IT Spending Survey,
Nov 2nd, 2008
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 1 Hardware is underutilized (1) The
rapid doubling of processing power has had a
tremendous impact on daily activities So, if you
take year one as a base, with, say, processing
power of 100 million instructions per second
(MIPS) available, then in year two, there will be
200 in year three, 400 by year 10 today the
hardware is so powerful that software typically
uses only a small portion of the available
processing power. And this causes a different
type of problem..
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 1 Hardware is underutilized(2) Today,
many data centers have machines running at only
10 or 15 percent of total processing capacity. In
other words, 85 or 90 percent of the machines
power is unused. Most companies arent able to
take advantage of the increased power available
to them. After all, if youre hauling a 50-pound
bag of cement, having a truck come out that can
carry 20,000 pounds instead of this years
model that can only carry 10,000 pounds is pretty
irrelevant for your purposes.
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 1 Hardware is underutilized(3) However,
a lightly loaded machine still takes up room and
draws electricity, so the cost of todays
underutilized machine is nearly the same as if it
was before. It doesnt take a rocket scientist
to recognize that this situation is a waste of
computing resources. And, guess what? With the
steady march of HW Technology, next years
machine will have twice as much spare capacity as
this years .
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 1 Hardware is underutilized(4)
Obviously, there ought to be a better way to
match computing capacity with load. And thats
what virtualization does by enabling a single
piece of hardware to seamlessly support multiple
systems. By applying virtualization,
organizations can raise their hardware use rates
from 10 or 15 percent to 70 or 80 percent,
thereby making much more efficient use of
corporate capital
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 2 Energy costs go through the roof
(1) The increasing march of computerization
discussed means that every company is using more
power as their computing processes expand. Power
costs, have skyrocketed, making power a more
significant part of every companys budget. In
fact, for many companies, electricity now ranks
as one of the top five costs in their operating
budgets.
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 2 Energy costs go through the roof
(2) The cost of running computers, coupled with
the fact that many of the machines filling up
data centers are running at low utilization
rates, means that virtualizations ability to
reduce the total number of physical servers can
significantly reduce the overall cost of energy
for companies.
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 3 System administration costs
mount Computers dont operate on their own.
Every server requires care and feeding by system
administrators who, as part of the operations
group, ensure that the server runs properly.
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
For every 1 spent on hardware, companies spend
3 to manage
Source IDC Study 2009
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot
Trend 3 System administration costs mount
(2) Common system administration tasks
include monitoring hardware status replacing
defective hardware components installing
operating system (OS) and application software
installing OS and application patches monitoring
critical server resources such as memory and disk
use and backing up server data to other storage
mediums for security and redundancy purposes.
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot
Trend 3 System administration costs mount
(3) System administrators are usually located
with the servers due to their need to access the
physical hardware, the job can not be off
shored. The steady increase in server numbers has
meant demand for system administration increase.
virtualization offers the opportunity to reduce
overall system administration costs by
reducing the overall number of machines that need
to be taken care of.
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 3 System administration costs mount
(4) Although many of the tasks associated with
system administration (OS and application
patching, doing backups) continue even in a
virtualized environment, some of them disappear
as physical servers are migrated to virtual
instances. Overall, virtualization can reduce
system administration requirements by 30 to 50
percent per virtualized server, making
virtualization an excellent option to address the
increasing cost of Opex.
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Benefit of Instant Provisioning
Configure hardware
Install OS
Configure OS Tools
Assign IP Addr
Configure Network
Procure hardware
20-40 hrs of work 4-6 week lead time
lt1 hour of work 1-2 days lead time
Deploy from Template
Power on VM

• Provisioning time reduced to minutes instead of
  days or weeks

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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 4 Data Centers Run Out of Space(1) The
business world has undergone an enormous
transformation over the past 20 years. In 1985,
the vast majority of business processes were
paper based. Computerized systems were confined
to so-called backroom automation payroll,
accounting. Business process after business
process has been captured in software and
automated, moving from paper to computers. The
rise of the Internet has exponentially increased
this transformation.
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Why Virtualization Is Hot, Hot, Hot.
Trend 4 Data Centers Run Out of (2) IDC
estimates that total storage shipped will
increase 50 percent per year for the next five
years. The net effect of all this is that huge
numbers of servers have been put into use over
the past decade, which is causing a real-estate
problem for companies.
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Virtualization Benefits

• Resources Optimization by Reducing capital and
  operational costs
• Reduce No. of Servers, reduce operating power,
  reduce cooling power and finally reduce data
  center space requirements.
• Elimination of Planned and Unplanned Downtime.
• Full Data Protection for Business-Critical IT
  Infrastructure.
• Build Reliable and Efficient Disaster Recovery
  Plans.
• Improved IT flexibility and responsiveness.
• Improve enterprise desktop management control
  with faster deployment of desktops and fewer
  support calls due to application conflicts.

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AlkanCIT Services
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Virtualization Assessment (Capacity Planning)
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Virtualization Assessment (Capacity Planning)
Free of Charge till the end of the year
Gives organizations a clear view of server
consolidation opportunities within the existing
physical IT infrastructure. We assess current
server landscape to determine the potential costs
and savings. Capacity Planning rapidly collects
infrastructure metrics and provides a detailed
report of resource utilization (CPU, RAM and
Network utilization percentages) with
recommendations. A Detailed report of expected
Cost savings is also provided.
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IT Infrastructure Consolidation
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IT Infrastructure Consolidation

• The Cost of constant physical expansion for data
  storage, can be greatly reduced though the
  virtualization of server and storage
  environments. As a result, most of the
  organizations worldwide are realizing the benefit
  of virtualization solutions and it is becoming a
  primary focus in the design and implementation of
  further data centers.
• AlkanCIT provides the most suitable
  virtualization solutions that will cut capital
  and operating costs while increasing IT service
  delivery without being locked into limited
  choices of operating systems, applications, and
  hardware.

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Desktop Virtualization
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What keeps you up at night?
Information and data is our most important asset.
We spend too much time recovering lost data from
stolen laptops.
How do I maintain or improve desktop management
when Im required to do more with less?
Windows 7 is here, I need to prepare for it!
I spend a lot of time on desktop support calls.
But I really need to focus on strategic IT
initiatives that really add value.
It is difficult to respond quickly when employees
are mobile and scattered across the world.
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Desktop virtualization is the answer now

• Lower TCO by 50
• Ease Windows 7 migration
• Technology is ready
• User adoption on the rise

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Desktop Virtualization

•  AlkanCIT delivers comprehensive solutions that
  provide the ability to Configure, deploy and
  maintain hardware-independent desktop virtual
  machines from central locations for simpler
  management and more efficient desktop
  provisioning by encapsulating the desktop
  operating system, applications, and user data as
  a set of files that can be stored centrally.

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Reduction of cost is achieved in different ways.
Reduce Desktop TCO by up to 50
CAPEX Savings
50 More VMs per server
70 Reduction in storage costs
OPEX Savings
50 Average fewer help desk calls
55 Less desktop management time
Customer examples compiled from typical cases
in the industry
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Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery
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Challenges of Traditional Disaster Recovery
Dependent on perfect training, documentation, and
execution
Complex recovery processes and infrastructure

• Failure to meet recovery requirements
• Recovery takes days to weeks
• Recovery tests often fail
• Significant IT time and resources consumed

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Virtualization for Disaster Recovery
Customers
55 of customers using virtualization for
BC/DR (1 reason for virtualization behind
consolidation/resource utilization)
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Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery

• Due to the ongoing advancements in the business
  strategy as well as technology innovation,
  response to security threats, application
  changes, and capacity growth business have become
  increasingly dependent on complex IT
  environments.
• And as the business dependence on IT increases
  the less you are able to interrupt services for
  both internal and external users is more
  important. For this reason business continuity
  has become a vital necessity in the business
  world especially for organizations operating
  around the clock worldwide and need to be
  globally present 24/7.

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• suitable virtualization solutions that fit within
  the clients budget.
• It helps in eliminating the cost and
  unpredictability of traditional disaster recovery
  solutions, build highly effective disaster
  recovery plans.

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Data Center Management
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The Reality in Most Datacenters
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Data Center Management

• Administrators usually have a limited insight of
  the status of IT services which increases risk
  exposure and IT outages. IT departments are also
  weighed down by numeral requests for providing IT
  services or updating current ones. They are stuck
  wasting cycles on mundane tasks, and dont have
  time to focus on what really matters.
• Through the different solutions that AlkanCIT
  offers, it enables the organization to have full
  control over its physical and virtual environment
  under one management platform.

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• Servers become dynamic software files that can be
  provisioned, managed, secured and protected with
  greater speed and efficiency using an on-demand
  pool of infrastructure resources. Applications
  can be delivered seamlessly with the highest
  level of availability and service levels, without
  the cost and complexity of traditional IT
  solutions.

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VMware The Proven Industry Leader

• Company Overview
• 1.9 billion in 2008 revenue
• Over 2 billion in cash
• 20 operating margins
• 7,000 employees worldwide
• 5th largest infrastructure software company in
  the world
• Proven in the Trenches
• 150,000 VMware customers
• 100 of Fortune 100
• 100 of Fortune Global 100
• 96 of Fortune 1000
• 95 of Fortune Global 500

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VMware The Proven Industry Leader

• Company Overview
• 1.9 billion in 2008 revenue
• Over 2 billion in cash
• 20 operating margins
• 7,000 employees worldwide
• 5th largest infrastructure software company in
  the world
• Proven in the Trenches
• 150,000 VMware customers
• 100 of Fortune 100
• 100 of Fortune Global 100
• 96 of Fortune 1000
• 95 of Fortune Global 500

89 of all virtualized applications in the world
run on VMware. Gartner, December 2008
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Alkan Roadmap
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Solution Competencies
Virtualization Management
Desktop Virtualization
Business Continuity
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Alkan CIT Initiative

• Let us work Together on Virtualizing the Oil
  Gas Sector to enable a strategic advantage from
  early adoption.

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Thank You
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