Data Center of the Future: Designing a modernized, high performance computing environment

1Data Center of the Future | Eric Killinger | VMworld - 28 August 2019 © 2019 Capgemini. All rights reserved.
CLOUD move ahead
VMWORLD 2019
August 25-29 | San Francisco
Data Center of the Future at Hydro One
Designing a modernized, high performance
computing environment
Speaker: Eric Killinger, Director IT Strategy
August 28, 2019

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Hydro One transforms IT infrastructure to meet market demands
Technology changes mean greater visibility, lower costs, and optimized service
Providing power to millions
Market disruptions driving change

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Hydro One had to make some decisions
The current IT estate
 Limited IT agility and flexibility
 High project initiation and resource costs
 Considerable dependency on legacy UNIX platforms
 Aging core IT assets with high recurring OPEX costs
 Pending IT refresh with significant CAPEX investment

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Goal: Optimize outcomes in three key areas
Taking bold steps to transform IT infrastructure and processes
Switching on transformation
1
IT and process visibility
2
IT and process costs
3
Customer service

Plan
Develop roadmap to
provide timeline,
team organization,
buildout plans and
migration waves for
the future state
technology stack
Design
Architect future
landing zones with
detailed configuration
parameters to support
financial analysis and
future decisions
Discover
A complete picture of
the portfolio in
weeks, including
infrastructure and
application inventory
Rationalize
Intelligent combination
of portfolio
characteristics, TCO,
and benchmarking to
assign rationalization
destinies– eliminate,
invest, migrate, or
keep
Justify
Financial business
case to show current
state infrastructure
and management
costs offset by future
state costs
Strategic planning drives business and technology adoption
Capgemini’s approach to solve Hydro One’s challenges
Discover Rationalize Recommend
Weeks 1-4 Weeks 5-6 Weeks 9-12
Mobilize
Weeks 7-8

Hydro One turned to Capgemini for Innovative Services and
Solutions
Moving entire IT infrastructure to the cloud
The Target State Solution
 Vendor validated reference architecture
 Blue-printing, automating, self-healing, auto-provisioning
 Reduce time and cost to deploy infrastructure and applications
 Rapid cross-skilling and up-skilling of valuable employees
 New, streamlined and simplified service delivery model
 Introducing a Composable Infrastructure improves Operational capabilities
 Migration of Hydro One’s SAP environment to a flexible and much more cost effective, virtualized x86 environment

Capgemini selected VMware and HPE solutions
vCenter
vRealize Automation
vRealize Operations
vRealize Network Insight
The
Building
Blocks
SRM

Application Automation with SDDC Lifecycle ManagementvRealizeOperations,vRealizeBusiness,LogInsight
SAP Oracle Microsoft
vRealize Automation
Non-Production
Workload Domains
Shared
VM’s
Production
Workload Domains
vSph
ere
Management
Applications
From Non-
Production
to Production
Supporting
Application
Development
Self Service /
Automated
Provisioning and
Management of
applications on SDDC
Using: vRealize
Automation
Management
Domain
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
vSph
ere
Compute Networking & Security Storage

Self Service experience with vRealize Automation
Flexible and
powerful
Entitlement and
Approval policies
App store
experience
• Infra
• Middleware
• Applications
• XaaS/extensi
ble

Automate to reclamation resources
Right-size, Reclaim, Retire Resources during the Application Lifecycle
Cloud
Infrastructure
Verify Act
Idle
Resources
Enterprise
Mgr
Identify
Owner
Wait before
forcing lease
Forced
Lease Period
1st
Notification
Second
Notification
Machine
Deleted /Archived
Machine
Reclaimed
Owner
Underutilized,
Inactive &
Abandoned VMs
Machine
Resized
Optional
Archival Period
Automated Actions Workflow

Hydro One core processes will be cloud-based going forward
Finance
Customer
Services
Supply Chain
Management
HR Field
Services

Technologies alone did not meet the need
Capgemini implemented organization change management
Onshore resources
 Drive enhancement projects
 Develop standardized blue prints
 Automate low level tasks
 Optimize post-deployment environment
Rightshore© resources
 Maintain production and development environments
 Minor enhancements and patching
 Moves/Adds/Changes

How will the organization change?
Innovation Industrialization
Sustainment and
Project Teams
Maintain Rightshore
Enhance Onshore

Hydro One gains valuable business benefits
The Benefits
 Turned machine builders into productive innovators
 Lowered operating costs while supporting higher business demand
 Eliminated inefficiencies and reduced lifecycle development
 Enabled cloud-based scalability and cost predictability
 Increased coworker productivity and career excitement
 Leverage Projects as a Service and avoid technology roadblocks

Simple
Operations
Enhanced
Security
Flexible
Choice
Consistent
Experience
Enterprise
Class
Compute,
Storage,
Networking
Financial
Predictability
Capgemini Solution Benefits for Hydro One
 Fully
automated
lifecycle
management
of entire
VMware stack
with SDDC
Manager
 Enhanced
network
security thru
micro-
segmentation
with NSX (to
secure
containerizatio
n and micro
services)
 Deploy
additional
qualified
hardware and
public cloud
partners for
added
flexibility
(Unlimited
options)
 Leverage
existing skills &
tools for a
consistent
operational
experience
across private
& public clouds
(Keep
User/app
experience
consistent)
 Natively
integrated
vSphere & NSX
 Retirement of
legacy systems
 Lower
operational
costs

Thank You
Eric Killinger
Director IT Strategy
Capgemini US
 eric.killinger@capgemini.com
 +1 773 2502538

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