The document discusses several key infrastructure trends including virtualization, storage technologies like deduplication and object storage, networking technologies like MAN and wireless mesh, and process trends like SOA implementation and legacy skills. It also provides an analysis of the Israeli market for various infrastructure technologies and recommends several vendors and system integrators.

3. The Innovation Lifecycle The Innovation Lifecycle execution process innovation

7. 2006 2007 2006-2007 Projects Radar In Israel Interest using Implementing Linux 2007 2006 Storage Growth SOA EAI VMWARE Virtual PC MF Growth MF Growth SBC Backup to disk Blades Printing Consolidation BCP DRP Update Migration from Netware Network Upgrades Yellow = not trivial projects ISCSI Exchange 2007

12. User – Vendor Value Chain 1 3 5 4 2 User Responsibility Managed Services Vendor-Managed Services Storage Server Virtualization Network Upgrade PC migration Monitoring DBA SOA EAI implementation SOA EAI Roadmap

13. STKI IT Model

19. 2006 2007 The Infrastructure Manager Radar Interest using Implementing Network Upgrades Network Upgrades WAFS MAN GIGA to the desktop Application Acceleration (in the LAN) 2007 2006

21. Israel Market Positioning (general networking WAN manufacturers) Local Support Israeli Market Presence Cisco Juniper Hawawi This analysis should be used with its supporting documents

22. Israel Market Positioning (general networking LAN manufacturers) Local Support Israeli Market Presence Cisco 3COM Nortel This analysis should be used with its supporting documents Enterasys HP

23. Selected Vendors and SI’s in Israel- Networking

24. STKI IT Model

25. Traditional Tape Backup Architecture Tape Library Source: Falconstor 4Gb/s Primary LUN LAN 1Gb/s Push Agent Backup Agent Application Host Farm 3rd party Backup Servers

26. Optimizing Backup with CDP & VTL / Reduplication 4Gb/s 4Gb/s 4Gb/s Primary LUN LAN 1Gb/s Push Agent Backup Agent Application Host Farm 3rd party Backup Servers Tape Library Virtual Tape Library Appliance + De-duplication- up to 1:20 Ratios! Hypertrac 4 Gb/s CDP Appliance Source: Falconstor (with STKI modifications) CDP Cloned LUN FC/iSCSI

27. How De-Duplication Works: Compares latest backup data to stored data None, only pointers to previous data Source (with STKI modification) : Sepaton http :// www . go - dpa . com / media / TSM_Webinar . ppt Current Data New Data Stored Previously Stored Data Eliminates duplicate data within Exchange, Oracle ® and Microsoft ® SQL databases Eliminates storage of unchanged portions of files Eliminates storage of duplicate files (single Instance)

28. Object-Based Storage Paradigm Object Interface File System Storage component Applications Applications Logical Block Interface File System Traditional Storage Object-based Storage Hard Drive Object-based Storage Device (OSD) Source http :// sdmcenter . lbl . gov / AHM . december . 2006 / ShortCeph . ppt

29. How does Holographic Storage Work? Recording Data Reading Data Spatial Light Modulator Data to be stored Data Pages Storage Medium Reference Beam Laser Laser Recovered Data Reference Beam Detector Records a million bits of data with one exposure into light sensitive material Stores hundreds of data pages in one location

30. Sample Data Page – 1.3 million bits of data recorded in ~ 2 milliseconds

32. 2006 2007 The Infrastructure Manager Radar Interest using Implementing VTL DeDuplication CDP Different storage tiers Email Archiving File Archiving - HSM DBMS on NAS Laptop Backup SATA Users should redefine their BackupestoreDRP policies based on new technologies! Object Storage Basic Snapshots Snapshots for Exchange, DBMS , etc. 2007 2006

39. Storage Size and Growth in Selected Industries 20%-30% 20TB-100TB High Tech 25%-100% 5TB-10TB Governmental 30% 600TB-1 PETA Telco 20%-50% 20TB-30TB Manufacturing – Retail 60%-100% 20TB-50TB Health 40% - 50% 60TB-200TB Finance 30%- 50% 500TB-1000TB Defense Planned Growth 2005 Size Industry

43. Israel Market Positioning High-end Storage (total including MF) Local Support Israeli Market Presence EMC HDS This analysis should be used with its supporting documents HP IBM

44. Israel Market Positioning High-end Storage – MF only Local Support Israeli Market Presence EMC HDS This analysis should be used with its supporting documents IBM

45. Israel Market Positioning Midrange Storage SCSI Local Support Israeli Market Presence EMC IBM NETAPP HP This analysis should be used with its supporting documents HDS Vendors to Watch: SUN XIV Same positioning

46. Israel Market Positioning Storage NAS Local Support Israeli Market Presence NETAPP IBM nSeries HP This analysis should be used with its supporting documents EMC

47. Storage Selected Vendors and SI’s in Israel

52. Israel Market Positioning (Backup SW) Local Support Israeli Market Presence Legato HP IBM CA Symantec Veritas This analysis should be used with its supporting documents

53. Selected Vendors and SI’s in Israel – B/R SW

58. STKI IT Model

63. Racks are Getting Hotter 2008 2000 28, 2U Servers 2kw Heat Load 2002 42, 1U Servers 6kw Heat Load 2006 6 Blade Centers 24kw Heat Load 2008? Source: http :// www . nccashrae . org / powerpoint / 0610_Current_Trends_in_Data_Center_Design . ppt Current electricity cost (also for cooling) in Israel for one full rack is 200$ per month !

65. Rack Cooling Products… Ecobay: 10.5 kW/cab, Internal cooling module, closed air-circuit RackCooler: 8 kW, cooling module mounted on standard racks Knurr: 10 kW Internal cooling module, closed air-circuit http://openlab-mu-internal.web.cern.ch/openlab-mu-internal/Documents/3_Presentations/Slides/2003/03-46_1_Racz_CMS_infras.ppt

66. Time to Rethink – Liquid Cooling Building Chiller CDU CDU CW Refrigerant CW Distribution Header CDU

67. Cutter Survey: Please rank order the languages you use according to criticality The MF Skills Issue

68. Cutter Survey: What do you believe the impact of IT - employee retirements will be on mainframe support needs? The MF Skills Issue

69. Cutter Survey: What do you anticipate your mainframe direction will be in the next 5 to 10 years?

76. 2006 2007 The Infrastructure Manager Radar Interest using Implementing Virtualization in Test Dev 2007 2006 Virtualization in Production Linux for important systems Linux for critical systems Virtualization in the HW level Grid for industrial Specific applications Dealing with MF skills issue Water cooling Software Appliances 64 migration for windows servers Windows Longhorn Server Exchange 2007 Exchange 2007

78. Israel Market Positioning -Unix Local Support Israeli Market Presence HP IBM SGI SUN This analysis should be used with its supporting documents

79. Israel Market Positioning – Industry Standard Processors (Intel AMD) Local Support Israeli Market Presence HP DELL IBM This analysis should be used with its supporting documents SUN

80. Market Positioning Blades Local Support Israeli Market Presence IBM HP This analysis should be used with its supporting documents DELL

84. Vendors and SI’s/ Channels/ Resellers in Israel – UNIX

85. STKI IT Model

94. 2006 2007 The Infrastructure Manager Radar Interest using Implementing VISTA 2007 2006 Office 2007 Application streaming SBC for Niche projects SBC as complete PC replacement Image Management Projects - BDD Backup solution for Laptops

96. Israel Market Positioning Desktops Local Support Israeli Market Presence Lenovo DELL White Boxes HP This analysis should be used with its supporting documents Same positioning

97. Israel Market Positioning Laptops Local Support Israeli Market Presence Lenovo DELL HP This analysis should be used with its supporting documents

98. STKI IT Model

99. Semantic Technology Semantic technology as a software technology allows the meaning of information to be known and processed at execution time. For a semantic technology there must be a knowledge model of some part of the world that is used by one or more applications at execution time Source: Vagan Terziyan

105. 2006 2007 The Infrastructure Manager Radar Interest using Implementing Oracle 10G Migration 2007 2006 In Memory DBMS Using MSSQL in Critical applications Security in the DBMS Data Quality

107. Israel Market Positioning DBMS Open Local Support Israeli Market Presence Oracle IBM MYSQL MSSQL This analysis should be used with its supporting documents

108. STKI IT Model

109. SOA Cutter Survey: What are the primary drivers behind your SOA initiative ( s ) ?

115. EDA / SOA Interface Patterns Confidential and Intellectual Property of Rhysome, Inc. RHYSOME® and ZOMA® and ZOMADATAVAULT® are trademarks of Rhysome ©2006 All rights reserved. Sense Capture Collect Event Repository Event Event Processing Dispatcher Service Handler Pub/Sub Service Req/Reply Service

116. Open Source Adoption Trend: Packaged Software Source: IDC Linux Revenues to Top $40 Billion in Two Years Source: http :// www . siliconforestforum . com / 2006 / presentations / Keynote - StuartCohen . ppt

124. 2006 2007 The Application Development / Architecture Manager Radar Interest using Implementing Agile Development for ISV and Integrators Agile Development – for Enterprise Open Source tools for for ISV’s Startups Java for Core Systems 2007 2006 .NET for Core Systems SOA ROADMAP Project SOA Technology Selection SOA implementation EDA – Event Driven SOA Governance Initiative

127. Israel Market Positioning Integration Brokers Local Support Israeli Market Presence Microsoft IBM Magic Tibco This analysis should be used with its supporting documents Vendors to Watch: WebMethods BEA Oracle SAP SUN Same positioning

131. Israel Market Positioning - ETL Local Support Israeli Market Presence Informatica IBM This analysis should be used with its supporting documents Oracle Microsoft

135. STKI IT Model

137. The Transformative Effect of BSM and CMDB Brings functions together to enable more efficient IT processes to better support the business Prevents collaboration using common information Source: BMC CMDB

140. 2006 2007 The Infrastructure Manager Radar Interest using Implementing CMDB 2007 2006 End User Experience Infrastructure and Application Monitoring Web Services Monitoring Transaction Monitoring Yellow = not trivial projects

146. Israel Market Positioning – Management Frameworks Local Support Israeli Market Presence CA IBM BMC HP Mercury This analysis should be used with its supporting documents

147. Selected SI’s

148. Thank You for your assistance in this research Pini Cohen Senior Analyst & VP [email_address]