Achieving CloudRelevance

Poised ForNew Heights

Cloud computing holds the promise of elevating IT within the enterprise by addressing the need for rapid service delivery.

Today, clouds can be implemented in a variety of ways: private, public, and hybrid.

This combination places IT in the unique role of being a service broker, enabling it to provide a range of service delivery options. This allows applications and data to be placed in the appropriate locations based on unique business requirements.

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Cloud types:public, private, hybrid

The mix of cloud services makes IT a critical service broker, enabling it to deliver multiple application and data

delivery options to the right place with the right requirements.

Public cloudsIT resources are shared across multiple organizations and are managed externally.

Private cloudsIT resources are dedicated to one organization.

Hybrid cloudsA mix of public and private clouds are managed singularly, yet able to expand as needed.

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How does ITkeep up with end-user demands?

Obtaining services that deliver value and enable task completion e�ciently is as easy as downloading an application or opening a public cloud service provider account.

Market dynamics and recent technology advancements have fundamentally changed user expectations.

As a result, end users are tapping the public cloud as a shadow IT department to meet their needs faster and more e�ciently.

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IT is now in a critical role of IT service broker, enabling it to provide a range of service delivery options so applications and data can be placed in the appropriate locations based on business requirements.

Grasp the answer, embrace the cloud

Find the right delivery options:

On-demandSelf service

Broad network access

Resource pooling

Rapid elasticity

Measured service

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Provide data center virtualization

By consolidating many virtual machines onto one physical server, organizations can improve e�ciency

when provisioning and deprovisioning servers.

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A cloud automation solution needs to automate the end-to-end service delivery process

Many solutions don’t automate the whole process and require manual intervention. To maximize e�ciency,

automating should address the entire process.

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Provide self-service convenience while still maintaining control

It’s important for IT to personalize self service access while still maintaining governance and controls to meet business-specific needs.

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The technology must work with the organization’s existing tools, infrastructure, and processes to extend beyond IT service provisioning. Full life-cycle management is critical for moving beyond manually operating processes in silos.

This includes reprovisioning, reconfiguring, snapshotting, backing up, decommissioning, and archival tasks.

Customization is key

Find the right delivery options:

More sta� time todedicate to strategic

responsibilities

Increased system administratorproductivity

Reducedorganizational capital

expenses

Optimized computingresources on a

company-wide level

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VMware Cloud Automation can help by: 1: Bringing modern capabilities

Automation ensures executives can respond to and align IT with increased business needs.

2: Empowering administratorsAdmins can rapidly automate, standardize, and govern the entire process of cloud services delivery.

3: Accelerating deploymentAll service deployment is accelerated, providing control needed to leverage public cloud resources where appropriate.

4: Integrating IT infrastructure service o�eringsEconomics, speed of IT infrastructure, operations, and applications are restructured to pool siloed resources into one infrastructure service o�ering to di�erent teams across the business.

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Case Study:Dow Jones & Company

Dow Jones& Company

The enterprise saw the need for a cloud automation solution when IT delivery resources failed to meet

demand after a virtual infrastructure attempt.

Dow Jones evaluated automation software based on several criteria:

Ability to unify public and private cloud resource management

Flexibility to integrate into the Dow Jones environment

Scalability Cost e�ectiveness Speed to deployment

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Using the VMware solution in the cloud environment, Dow Jones standardized and automated its process to get more control over IT resource deployment.

VMware vCloud Automation Center

met all requirements

“With VMware, we have reduced the time needed to deploy virtual machines, as well as the e�ort of individuals required to focus on manual steps to provision. This is saving money by refocusing toward strategic activities rather than building servers.”

Altaf Tupani,Vice President of Global Systems, Dow Jones

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To fully embrace the power of public, private and hybrid cloud

environments, check out VMware vCloud Automation Center at:

http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-automation-center/