IT departments have a lot on their plates.
A typical IT department managing workloads and systems is measured by key performance indicators (KPIs) including security, addressing service failures, restoring systems quickly, minimizing the mean time to repair, helping improve staff efficiency by being proactive and not reactive, aiming for a faster deployment of services, minimizing migration costs to newer platforms, supporting service-level agreements and efficiently planning for capacity changes.
In enterprises that run VMware, IT staffs are trained to support the KPIs for on-premises production as well as development and test workloads. However, as businesses are looking to cut costs, many choose hybrid cloud with a dedicated, off-premises private cloud. While the enterprise goal is to reduce capital expenditures (CAPEX), the current ecosystem of cloud provider solutions requires migration efforts, because the source and target cloud architectures are often not based in VMware.
IBM has worked with thousands of clients. We’ve found that workload integration and migration issues are exacerbated by mergers, acquisitions, divestures, unexpected service interruptions, changes in IT productivity, the need for IT agility and when lines of business launch new innovation initiatives.
Enterprises need a cloud offering that:
Leverages the current IT department skillset, tools, processes, VM templates and scripts used on-premises, and offers an option to self-manage.
Allows root access to systems and hypervisor for system administrators to have full control over the environment And only need to open tickets on failure.
Facilitates data centers across the globe with private, high-speed connections and resources providing the highest performance.
Has secure and dedicated off-premises private cloud resources supporting VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) architectures.
Meets compliance standards such as SOC1-2-3 reports, ISO 270001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, CSA STAR, PCI, HIPPA, Intel Trusted Execution Technology and EU clauses.
Is based on VMware SDDC architecture completely configured on-demand and ready to use.
Can scale quickly, up or down, and allows existing VMware workloads to be lifted and shifted with minimal effort, alleviating the cost of migration.
Allows live migration of workloads from and on-premises environment to and off-premises, dedicated private cloud that delivers mission-critical services on-demand.
Supports software-defined networking solutions based on VMware NSX, providing virtually unlimited networking flexibility in defining new VLANs, assigning IP addresses, and establishing network services such as load balancing, firewalls and routers.
Supports backup and disaster scenarios, as well as the ability to set up development, test, training or lab capacity.
Supports VSAN shared storage, providing highly available, high performance, single-tenant storage which grows automatically as additional capacity nodes are added.
Offers additional VMware components procured on a simple, per-CPU per-month basis with no long term contracts (Site Recovery Manager, VMware Integrated OpenStack, etc.).
What is the solution that address these requirements?
While there are offerings that support VMware based solutions, enterprises should consider the global presence of data centers and high speed private network connectivity across the globe and consistent delivery.
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