1. 5 Ways to Reduce Costs
While Modernizing Your
Infrastructure

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The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
is a new but already proven architecture
that leverages IT infrastructure to enable
businesses to achieve greater agility,
speed, and security.
SDDC
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Wheezing Infrastructure
Pressure On Many Fronts
IT infrastructure is straining under the
pressure of a data-intensive age. Costs
are rising, and performance is lagging.
New Business Models
Power OutagesLack of Visibility
Downtime
Recovery
Scalability
Rising real estate costs
Overprovisioning
Management Silos
Management Overhead
Competitive pressures Alert Storm
Time-to-Market
Out-of-Compliance
Admin Time
Power Costs
Cost Transparency
CapExOpEx
Storage Failure

4. 3
What is the Software-Defined Data Center?
A New Architectural Approach With Many Payoffs
The Software-Defined Data
Center (SDDC) virtualizes
all infrastructure …
... which boosts performance ... … and lowers costs …
Network | Server | Storage Efficiency | Control | Agility Hardware | Energy | Admin

5. 4
Top Priorities
Meeting Long-Term Strategies
Software-Defined Data Center architecture empowers
companies to meet three top priorities:
Next-generation data architecture and economics
Cutting-edge security and high availability
Services production at business speed

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Goal #1 | Standardization
Slashing CapEx Costs
It has many names—data center modernization,
consolidation, or standardization. By any name,
virtualization of the computer, network, and storage
layers provides many benefits:
• Up to 49% reduction in
CapEx costs
• Centralize IT
• Lower unit costs
• Improved OLAs/SLAs
• More business responsiveness

7. 6
The SDDC Journey
More Benefits With Each Step
SDDC is a journey, where companies gain more efficiencies
and cost-savings at each step along the path.
Stage Products Objective Benefits Payoff
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
vSphere with Ops.
Mgmt.ENT+vRealize
Operations Insight
Virtual SAN,
NSX
SRM
(for DC Migration only)
vCloud Air
vRealize Suite
Compute
Virtualization
Management
Software Defined
Storage/Network
Virtualization
Hybrid Cloud and
ease of management
Reduce power costs,
outages and admin
time. Streamlined
proactive management
CapEx savings,
reduced downtime,
faster recovery,
improved security
Fastertime-to-market,
effective utilization of
resources
35% ROI
70% ROI
78% ROI

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Goal #2 | Streamlined/Automated Operations
Making IT Truly Proactive
Many companies are constrained by complex IT infrastructure
and reactive IT operations. Building more intelligence into
the infrastructure achieves both cost cutting and better
business performance.
Automation drives out inefficiencies in IT processes
Measure performance and associate it with costs
Cost-cutting
Business enhancement
Step Benefit

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Getting Smarter
Making IT Operations More Intelligent
An intelligent, automated network results in smarter IT
—and smarter operations.
Before After Result
At Boeing , 92% of
11,000 virtual machines
were overprovisioned
Boeing’s daily threshold
alerts dropped from 500-1,000
a day to 50-100 a day
Cornerstone Home Lending
wasted resources through
inability to monitor VM health
Reactive IT
Rightsized VM
Administrators can handle
60% more machines
Improved infrastructure visibility
Proactive IT
Average company enjoys 34%
increase in capacity utilization
Faster mean-time-to
-recovery; with average
company seeing 26%
improvement in diagnostic
& problem resolution time
Reduced hardware costs
by 70%
IT has time to provide
intelligence on important
cost-benefit decisions

10. 9
Goal #3 | Better Security
More Granular Security
SDDC enables network infrastructure to be separated into granular elements, so they can
be fortified at a lower cost with lower administrative overhead.
• Physical separation of security zones
• Complex, with multiple firewall ports/zones
• Many costly physical firewalls
• Each workload has its own network/security configuration
• Policy based configuration, attached to each workload
• Granular security without added complexity
• Reduce firewall costs by up to 70%
Before SDDC After SDDC

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Goal #4 | High Availability
Cut Disaster Recovery Costs in Half
Traditional DR requires expensive hardware/software that usually sits idle. SDDC simplifies
business continuity and DR with automatic failovers.
• High OpEx - Management silos
• High CapEx - Duplicate storage/server hardware
• Automated pre-defined plans
• High availability when VMs/hardware crash
• Hybrid cloud for disasters/power outages
Before SDDC After SDDC

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Goal #5 | Automated Delivery
Moving at the Speed of Business
Companies gain competitive advantage with Application and Infrastructure Delivery Automation.
• Compute, network and storage silos managed
by separate teams
• Business issues a ticket request for IT services
• Manual checking, provisioning, validation
and testing
• Services delivered in weeks
• Costs hazy
• Time lost in mass of tickets
• Efficiency in the management of compute,
network and storage virtualized
• Service blueprints through self-service portal
• Services request/delivered automatically
• Services delivered in minutes
• Costs can be tracked
• Rapid time-to-market
Before SDDC After SDDC

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Hybrid Cloud
Maximizing the Hybrid Cloud
SDDC provides a path to a true hybrid cloud, where a company can move between external and internal
resources, private and public clouds, depending on the most efficient and cost-effective solution.
Apollo Education Group, which provides unique technologies and innovative solutions to the global
network of academic institutions and learning platforms, embraced SDDC for its hybrid cloud.
• Lack of cost transparency
• Lack of visibility and control
• $1.6 million monthly cloud spend
• Meet demand while offering higher
OLAs and SLAs
• Migrated off public cloud; easier to administer
• Reduced costs by 90%
Before SDDC After SDDC

14. Learn More
Discover more about
Streamlined and Automated Data Center Operations
Check out an overview infographic
High-Value Outcomes for IT Organizations
See how
Columbia Sportswear grows IT innovation with VMware SDDC