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The Virtual Era encourages no separation between business strategy and IT execution. For the CIO, the Virtual Era represents an opportunity to recreate the role of CIO, redene how IT is run and create business advantage through efficiency and innovation.
The CIOs, CEOs and executive leaders who embrace these IT changes have an opportunity to out-innovate their competition. As IT becomes less of a support resource and more of a fundamental driver of business innovation, the role of the CIO and what denes efficiency is dramatically shifting. By leveraging cloud efficiencies and relying on virtualization technologies, an organizations information fabric becomes exible and open and data storage and retrieval faster, easier and more accurate. The Virtual Era will empower companies to scale with agility and provide the mobility that employees demand. Changing the fundamental cost structure around infrastructure so that more of an organizations IT spend can pursue innovation and drive business value is what CEOs want, CFOs wantand quite frankly, what CIOs must do to survive.
Dell recently partnered with Salesforce.com to help them in a migration to industry standard platforms. Database performance doubled and costs reduced by 20X, all while giving Salesforce.com customers faster access to data.
Are there redundant processes (technological and manual) across the IT environment? Virtualization and storage consolidation provide fewer touch points across a consolidated environment making greater levels of automation possible. Automated tools and best practices reduce manual intervention and boost productivity. Review processes across the IT organization and look for manual, repetitive tasks that can be eliminated, automated, hosted, or fully outsourced. Standardize, simplify and automate are the foundational pillars of the Efficient Enterprise. Dell has implemented Efficient Enterprise solutions based on these principles in three focus areas: the Efficient Data Center, the Efficient Workforce, and the Efficient Cloud.
Dell is partnering with MGM Resorts to create the Efficient Data Center and shift from IT maintenance to innovation. MGM Resorts, Las Vegas, now spends 75% of its IT time on innovation. Dell partnered with MGM to help them consolidate legacy assets gained through numerous acquisitions, assess their overall organization and help MGM quickly become an Efficient Enterprise. Dell helped MGM consolidate 55% of its physical servers into a virtual environment in six weeks, and reduced oor space requirements by 88%.
3. Streamlined application and workload management Rapid delivery of key services will make it easier and faster for IT managers to create images, deploy workloads to a mobile employee base and monitor the health of their networks. 4. Intelligent data management Automate data storage with a focus on matching data value with availability needs and storage costs. Lower costs and alleviate concerns about exponential data growth. The ultimate goal is to build an intelligent and automated infrastructure that reduces tasks and manual processes, and is managed more by policy than by people. Dell used these building blocks to develop a new data center architecture that exemplies the efficient data center, the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS). VIS is designed to provide an open, cross-vendor data center platform that allows server, storage, and networking assets to be managed as a common resource pool. IT managers can provision and automate infrastructure management at every layerphysical or virtual, using any hypervisor. VIS uniquely addresses the people and processes needed to efficiently operate a data center. For example, rather than having to request resources from separate server, storage, and networking teams, an application programmer looking to set up a test environment can select options from a catalog of available resources. Using VIS, the programmer can go to one tool and nd a workload similar to the desired workload that has been preloaded into an approved catalog of resources. After a couple of clicks, the infrastructure is automatically provisioneda process that takes minutes instead of weeks. VIS can then monitor that workload to help ensure that the provisioned infrastructure is sufficient to the task and meets the service-level agreement. If the workload was over-provisioned, the resources can be automatically redeployed for other purposes. Thats a very effective tool for increasing data center efficiency, and it is designed to work with the data center investments that an organization has already madein both Dell and non-Dell equipment. Data center efficiency in the Virtual Era will be dened by open systems, like VIS, that preserve choice and drive capability at every layer of the architecture. This approach enables innovation, quality, and price to all work toward competitive advantage.
Recently AXA, a global nancial provider, worked with Dell to nd ways to increase their IT efficiency. Dell Services helped AXA identify manual processes for asset management and support services. By moving to a cloud based SaaS asset management solution and outsourcing its support desk to Dell, AXA has realized $50M in efficiency savings, has freed up its IT resources and changed its IT economic model for IT support and asset management to pay as you go.
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