flexpod as a competitive edge
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FlexPod as a Competitive Edge
How Moffatt & Nichol boosted data center performance while cutting overhead
Shawn McCullough, Director of IT, Moffatt & Nichol
Mark Melvin – VP, CTO, ePlus
Patrick Rogers – VP, Data Center Platforms, NetApp
Cisco Live! Orlando, 2013
Session # BRKPCS-2027
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What If You Could… Accelerate business response
instead of being the critical path
Focus on IT innovation instead of keeping things running
Quickly support all new opportunities even opportunities not yet identified
Do it all with one architecture for any workload
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FlexPod Innovations in Data Center Technology
Unified Management
Programmable Infrastructure
Unified Fabric
Policy-based automation and service profiles Self-integrating components
Abstraction of bare metal server elements Open API for automation Orchestration through industry standard tools
Virtualization awareness Scalability without complexity High-performance I/O
Cisco Unified Computing System
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP Virtualize storage into pools Nondisruptive data motion
Unified Storage
IntelligentData Management
Built-in storage efficiency Integrated data protection
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Cisco Nexus® Family Switches
NetApp ClusteredData ONTAP
Cisco® UCS Servers and UCS Manager
FlexPod: Next Generation Integrated Infrastructure
Virtualized Storage Pool
Virtualized Compute Pool
Virtualized Network Pool
Virtualization
App AppAppAppAppApp
Bare Metal
Pool resources Single server pool / storage pool Service profiles for consistent policy-based Cisco UCS®
deployments
Abstract resources Virtualized servers and storage Stateless computing Dynamic scalability; app and
data mobility
Consume resources Service catalogs Rapid resource provisioning in
accordance with SLAs Open APIs for self-service / user-driven resource
consumption
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Leading US-based global infrastructure advisor
Engineering, planning, design, and economic analysis of waterfront and transportation infrastructure
28 global officesHeadquarters in Long Beach, California
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IT Challenges:• Manage and store large amounts of data safely and
securely• Support daily project development and delivery globally• Meet deadlines without downtime• Replace aging infrastructure (tape-based backup and
DR)
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IT Solution:• Integrated FlexPod environment running
processing-intensive applications• Workloads consolidated on FlexPod:
high-end engineering applications, Exchange, SQL server, and more.
• NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault for data protection and disaster recovery
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Solution results:• Reduced daily backup of project data - 300GB to 50 GB• Improved data recovery from hours to minutes• Savings of up to $10,000 per remote office• Cut administrative costs by 15% while boosting operation
performance and business continuity• Helped keep projects on schedule and maximize employee
productivity• Modular, scalable FlexPod architecture that grows with the
company
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FlexPod -- Breakthroughs for Your Business
Get to market fasterFreePort-McMoRan transformed SAP infrastructure to expand copper production by 1B lbs/yr
Continuous operations Sauber F1 completed all technology refreshes in two weeks with no downtime
Cut costs in half Computacenter uses 90% less storage for virtual environments
Avoid building a new data center
Loughborough University reduced 50-60 racks to just 8
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Find Out About FlexPod
Visit the NetApp stand (#711) and Cisco booth to speak with our experts
Visit the Cisco Live! NOC. FlexPod is used to run the Cisco Live! data center workloads
Download the Moffatt & Nichol success story from netapp.com
Visit http://www.netapp.com/flexpod Visit http://www.moffattnichol.com Visit http://www.eplus.com