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UKCMG 2011

UKCMG 2011. Best practices for optimum IT Capacity U tilization. Tony Beeston Product Marketing. The challenges in the IT department. 100’s of servers, and growing. 1000’s of IT requests, and growing. meet service levels. budget constraint. physical, virtual, cloud. dozens of vendors.

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UKCMG 2011

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  1. UKCMG 2011 Best practices for optimum IT Capacity Utilization Tony BeestonProduct Marketing

  2. The challenges in the IT department 100’s of servers, and growing... 1000’s of IT requests, and growing... meet service levels budget constraint physical, virtual, cloud... dozens of vendors

  3. Our pragmatic approach for optimum capacity utilization

  4. What’s the idea? • Our approach is: • A search for the IT infrastructure best efficiency • Based on Lean and 6-Sigma industry methods • A balance between “Do more with less” and “Assurance of future sustainability” • An on-going process, not a one time project And it will • Show you how to optimize utilization of your IT assets • Identify IT assets you can reclaim • Proactively make you aware of future IT resources organic needs

  5. What’s in it for me? • Benefits of our approach • Increased efficiency • Cost savings resulting in more economic provisioning of IT services • Deferred expenditure • Elimination of expensive panic buying • Better and more informed acquisition of IT resources • Less need for reactive support

  6. Our 2-phase approach to improve efficiency Based on LEAN 6-Sigma Step 1: Capacity Utilization Assessment Continuous Improvement • Identify servers under-utilized - Waste • See how your IT is being used – Median • Establish operational utilization levels – Goals Step 2: Tuning for best utilization • Aim at power reserve targets - Improvement • Assess new situation – measure improvement

  7. Phase 1: Capacity Utilization Assessment 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Collect metrics 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% View distribution Waste Norm Hot spots

  8. Phase 1: Capacity Utilization Assessment Number of servers / CPU load Set goals Target levels of utilization • Servers that can be reclaimed • Servers for consolidation - virtualization • Servers over-utilized Recommendation for improvement

  9. Phase 2: Tuning for best utilization • Principles • Servers don’t run at 100% capacity and should not. • You want to increase resource utilization close to the target operational levels • And leave just enough power reserve to prevent resource contention Utilization Power Reserve

  10. Phase 2: Tuning for best utilization Implement recommendations

  11. Phase 2: Tuning for best utilization Target level Current level Assess new situation Target utilizationlevel Currentutilizationlevel Utilization Poor asset leverage Optimum utilization Operational risk

  12. Customer Case Large European Investment Bank Capacitymanagement to discover and exploit the hidden value of unused resources

  13. Key Facts • Large European Investment Banks using the Data Synapse platform • Complex grid-computing infrastructure calculating bond rate position & derivatives • Growth rate of 800 servers per year to accommodate calculation

  14. Challenges • Rapidly growing infrastructure, yet stagnating performance • Inability to visualize utilization of existing resources • Unexplainable saturation & underutilization levels throughout the grid

  15. Benefits • 50% increase in calculation rate per server • Reduce hardware investments by 45% • Improve capacity utilization & exploit existing resources • Global visibility of the grid, its components, and how they are used by the different business : next step -> chargeback

  16. PAGE 15 Contact Information Email: info@orsyp.com Web: www.orsyp.com ORSYP EMEA: +33 1 47 73 12 12 ORSYP Americas: +1 781 569 5730 ORSYP APAC: +852 2815 2359

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