Customer Needs GE Access Consolidation Strategies Slide Bank

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Customer Needs GE Access Consolidation
Strategies Slide Bank
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Customer Needs

• Server Consolidation
• Storage Consolidation
• Network Consolidation
• Virtualization
• Improve Manageability
• Enhance IT staff efficiency
• Physical Consolidation
• Resource Utilization
• Manage Acquisition Costs
• Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs
• Minimizing Opportunity Costs
• Fast Response Time
• Fast Service Time
• Scalability

• Security and Privacy
• Connectivity
• Reliability
• Disaster Recovery
• Availability
• Security
• Interoperability
• Application Integration
• System and Data Integration
• Strategic Enablement
• Real-time Change Management
• Faster Application Development
• Minimize Business Interruption
• eBusiness Scalability

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Customer Need Server Consolidation

• The merging of applications, databases and
  services onto fewer, highly reliable servers
• Better asset utilization
• Elimination of unnecessary systems
• Reduce staffing
• Lower maintenance costs
• Reduce number of operating environments

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Server
Consolidation

• Sun Fire Servers
• Binary compatibility
• Provide continuous availability
• Scalability
• Performance
• Increased flexibility
• Better resource management
• Investment protection

Sun Fire Servers
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Customer Need Storage Consolidation

• Improve data access for all users
• Improve IT data flows
• Maximize utilization of IT personnel, facility,
  and system resources
• Increase the number of terabytes that can be
  administered by a single person
• Save valuable data center floor space or even
  recover floor tiles
• Lower maintenance and service costs
• Fewer hardware components
• Fewer software licenses

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Storage
Consolidation

• Consolidating multiple servers into a
  multi-domain server and combining the storage
  into a single storage platform
• Consolidating just the storage subsystems into a
  single storage subsystem
• Consolidate storage islands into fully
  implemented storage Area Networks (SANs)

Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN
Switches Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire
Servers Veritas High Availability Solutions
Hitachi Thunder Lightning StorageTek Disk D
Series
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Customer Need Network Consolidation

• Improve quality of service
• Increase the amount of data transfer
• Increase transfer speeds
• Accommodate increased network traffic
• Enable remote access

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Network
Consolidation

• Faster throughput
• Minimize bottlenecks
• More efficient data replication
• Superior IT service management
• Remote access

Extreme Networks HP Open View Tarantella
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Customer Need Virtualization

• Increase flexibility and responsiveness of the
  infrastructure
• Shorten lead times
• Achieve economies of scale
• Manage more resources with fewer staff
• Be able to easily add or swap out system
  resources
• Applications are fully isolated
• Containing resources
• Isolating faults
• Ensuring domain security

Do more with less.
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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Virtualization

• Full resource containment and control
• Security isolation
• Fault isolation
• Service Management Application
• No physical limitations
• N1
• Suns strategy virtualises all of a companys
  computing resources

Solaris 9 Containers Sun N1 Veritas High
Availability Solutions
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Customer Need Improve Manageability

• Improve the reliability, availability,
  serviceability and manageability of IT services
• More efficiently manage workloads
• Resource partitioning
• Workload classification
• Resource control
• Resource accounting
• Improve service levels and quality

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Improve
Manageability

• Improve workload management
• System-wide resource management
• Single point of management
• Custom resource allocation policies
• Remote system configuration
• Monitor performance
• Isolate hardware and software faults
• Storage-virtualization technology

Solaris 9 Sun Technology Veritas High
Availability Solutions
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Customer Need Enhance IT Staff Efficiency

• Make better use of skilled and scarce IT labor
• Upgrade level of IT skills
• Reduce headcount
• Greater productivity per IT professional

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Enhance IT
Staff Efficiency

• Suns Binary Compatibility
• Consistent methodology
• In-depth hardware and service monitoring
• Agent technology and sophisticated controls by
  administrator
• Optimize storage resource utilization and
  simplify administration in heterogeneous
  environments

Suns Binary Compatibility Sun Management
Centers Veritas Storage Management Solutions
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Customer Need Physical Consolidation

• Consolidate servers in one central location
• Make better use of resources
• Reduce staffing

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Physical
Consolidation

• Unified and automated storage management solution
• Multi-domain server and single storage platform
• Single storage subsystem
• Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN
Switches Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire
Servers Veritas High Availability Solutions
Hitachi Thunder Lightning StorageTek Disk D
Series
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Customer Need Resource Utilization

• Improve servers utilization
• Reduce aggregate capacity
• Enable shared resources
• Reduce TCO
• Reduce unplanned downtime

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Resource
Utilization

• Domain partitioning
• Dynamic reconfiguration
• System-wide resource management

Sun Fire Servers Solaris Resource Manager
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Customer Need Manage Acquisition Costs

• Reduce the numbers of machines a company needs to
  support its IT services
• Reduce the costs of purchasing and maintaining
  multiple operating system environments
• Watch out for deceptive ROI analysis
• Project-specific ROIs build inefficiencies
• Increasing proportion of IT resources devoted
  to infrastructures
• Less money to invest in new application
  functionality

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Manage
Acquisition Costs

• Single operating system reduces a TCO
• Solaris - 9 generations of backward compatibility
• Sun financing programs- Capacity on Demand-
  enables you to buy as you go
• Open architecture and virtualization lower
  upfront investment costs
• Pay-as-you-go scalability
• Just-in-time purchasing

Sun Technology Hitachi Freedom Storage StorageTek
D-Series GE Access Financial Services Group
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Customer Need Reduce Ongoing Operational Costs

• Reduce headcount
• Improve efficiency
• Reduce costs of
• Managing the network
• Systems
• Storage
• Providing end-user support
• Administration
• Training
• Purchasing
• Help desks

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Reduce Ongoing
Operational Costs

• Suns Architectural Consistency
• Hitachi Freedom Storage
• StorageTek L Series Tape Library

Sun Architectural Consistency Hitachi Freedom
Storage StorageTek L Series Tape Library
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Customer Need Minimizing Opportunity Costs

• Cost of unplanned downtime
• Angry and lost customers
• Missed e-business opportunities
• Degrading customer satisfaction ratings
• Liabilities caused by improperly tracked
  transactions

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Minimizing
Opportunity Costs

• Minimize both planned and unplanned downtime
• Disruption protection even in the case of failure
• Data backup and recovery protects critical data
• Back up data with non-disruptive, real-time
  copies
• Redundant, hot-swappable components with no
  single point of failure maintains business
  continuity
• Migrate and store your data in secure, off site
  facilities

Sun Solaris RAS Functionality Veritas Data
Protection Hitachi Freedom Storage
Solutions StorageTek L Series Tape Library
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Customer Need Fast Response Time

• Reduce time taken by a system to respond to user
• Reduce system overhead
• Increase network bandwidth
• Minimize delays
• Increase productivity

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Fast Response
Time

• SAN architecture enables storage area network
  management
• Consolidate storage resources on the network
• Optimize resource utilization
• Improve response time
• Optimise storage resource utilization
• Simplify administration
• Complete solution including switches

Sun StoreEdge Open SAN Solutions Veritas Network
Storage Management Software StorageTek D-Series
Software and Storage Devices Brocade, McData,
Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN Switches
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Fast Service Time

• Reduce response time
• Faster transaction processing
• Faster order fulfillment
• Improve organizational responsiveness

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Fast Service
Time

• 24/7 availability
• Outstanding throughput speed for global data
  access
• High application availability
• Instant data access
• Disruption-free operations
• Comprehensive data protection

Sun Fire Servers Sun StorEdge Storage
Arrays StorageTek D-Series
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Customer Need Scalability

• Ability to quickly and cost effectively scale IT
  infrastructures
• Increase throughput
• Minimize impact on ongoing IT productivity and
  services

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Scalability

• Suns binary compatibility
• Easy migration path to increase capacity and
  performance

Suns Platform Scalability StorageTek D-Series
Storage Systems Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series
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Customer Need Security and Privacy

• Protect customer and employee data from
  unauthorized use and distribution
• Protect against electronic theft and fraud
• Intrusion detection

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Security and
Privacy

• Network-centric security
• Password protection
• Encryption
• Protect and securely connect offices of all sizes
• Security, reliability and ease of use for mobile
  and networked workforce
• Simplified, proactive, protection against
  security attacks

Sun Platform Security CheckPoint Nokia Internet
Security Systems (ISS)
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Customer Need Connectivity

• Maintain a dialogue with trading partners
• Iterative, ongoing interactivity with customers
• Increase permeability of the companys boundaries

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GE Access Consolidation StrategyConnectivity

• Balance the increasing desire for connectivity
  with the limitations of living with legacy system

Sun ONE Services on Demand
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Customer Need Reliability

• Improve accuracy of transactions
• Two-phase commit
• Real-time logging
• Recoverability of transaction records
• Increase velocity of response
• Reduce variability
• Minimize impact of change

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Reliability

• Built-in redundancies to negate any single points
  of failure
• Hot swappable components and advanced online
  serviceability reduce downtime
• Resource allocation across individual domains on
  the fly
• Allocate shares of system resources to various
  workloads

Sun RAS Functionality Solaris Resource
Manager Veritas Storage Management Software
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Customer Need Disaster Recovery

• Recover records in case of an outage, system
  failure or operator error
• Support continuous business operations during a
  disastrous occurrence
• Support continuous business operations during a
  disastrous occurrence
• Conduct extremely rapid fail over without losing
  or corrupting records

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Disaster
Recovery

• Fault-tolerant system with fully redundant,
  hot-installable/hot-replaceable components
• Power alternatives for all duplicated components
• Minimal interruptions even in heterogeneous
  environments
• Off site data storage that doesnt disrupt your
  regular data flow
• Any-to-any connectivity

Suns Disaster Recovery Functionality Veritas
Disaster Recovery Hitachi Multiplatform
Backup/Restore StorageTek L Series Tape Library
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Customer Need Availability

• Delivery of efficient IT service with no outages
  visible to users
• Minimize planned outages for tasks such as
  hardware and software upgrades, application and
  database changes, and preventative maintenance
• Avoid the disruptive effects of unplanned outages
• Minimize any negative impact of workload surges

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Availability

• Point-in-time copy and remote mirroring helps
  reduce disruptions
• Create custom resource allocation policies based
  on individual and group needs
• Manage workloads and allocate resources where and
  when they are needed
• Manage workloads and allocate resources where and
  when they are needed
• SAN technology improves data availability

Brocade, McData, Qlogic, Sun, Cisco SAN
Switches Sun StorEdge Solaris OE, Sun Fire
Servers Veritas High Availability Solutions
Hitachi Thunder Lightning StorageTek Disk D
Series
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Customer Need Security

• Firewalls need to be installed and administered
• Virus protection
• Intrusion detection and response
• Auditing and analysis
• Minimize labor costs

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Security

• Network-centric security
• Protect and securely connect offices of all sizes
• Security reliability and ease of use for mobile
  workforce
• Simplified, proactive, protection against
  security attacks
• Authenticate software and hardware tokens, smart
  cards and digital certificates

Suns Network-Centric Security CheckPoint Nokia In
ternet Security Systems RSA Security
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Customer Need Interoperability

• Improve back-end integration
• Minimize costs of Interoperability
• Improve IT Performance
• Provide better information
• Enable cross-functional and inter-enterprise
  application and data sharing

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy
Interoperability

• Open architecture and commitment to open
  standards ensures application interoperability
• Open, published standards provides greater choice
  of products that they will all work together

Sun ONE Solaris 9
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Application Integration

• Reduce management complexity
• Improve resource management and utilization
• Decrease costs associated with buying, building
  and administering multiple applications

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Application
Integration

• Lower the lower the complexity of your data
  center by hosting multiple apps on a single
  server
• Cluster software allows a single application or
  series of applications to run across multiple
  domains or systems
• Enhanced manageability, availability and
  performance of databases and applications
  improves application integration

Veritas Storage Management Software Suns Dynamic
System Domains Suns Cluster Software
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System and Data Integration

• Increase interoperability and data access
• Support sustained workload growth over long
  periods with little or no increase in costs
• Better resource utilization

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy System and Data
Integration

• Suns Data Center Consolidation Solution
  improving efficiency and reducing complexity
• Hitachi Freedom Storage reduces storage
  management complexity
• Veritas Storage Management Software simplifies
  the administration of heterogeneous environments
  dramatically improvising application and systems
  integration initiatives

Suns Data Center Consolidation Solution Hitachi
Freedom Storage Veritas Storage Management
Software
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Customer Need Strategic Enablement

• Easier access to information
• Support innovative process
• Support empowered teams

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Strategic
Enablement

• GE Access Professional Services
• Centralized resource for the consulting,
  technical, educational and professional service
  organizations
• Sun, Veritas, Hitachi and StorageTek
• Source contracts with other systems integrators
• EDS, CapGemini, Accenture
• Sun Professional Services
• Map business strategy to technology roadmap

GE Access Professional Services Sun Professional
Services
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Customer Need Real-time Change Management

• Support innovation
• Increase systems flexibly to enable
  organizational responsiveness
• Migrate to an open architecture

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Real-time
Change Management

• Suns Open Architecture
• Highly reliable, available and secure technologies

Solaris 9 SunOne
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Customer Need Faster Application Development

• Simpler, more efficient development environment
• Minimize political issues
• Support evolutionary business change
• Increase organizational responsiveness

Sun Technology Hitachi Freedom Storage StorageTek
D-Series GE Access Financial Services Group
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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Faster
Application Development

• Quickly integrate new, empowering functionality
  into mission critical business solutions
• Open architecture supports a wide range of
  best-of-breed solutions
• Over 13,000, third party applications that
  written for the Solaris operating system and the
  Sun platform

Sun ISV Partnerships
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Customer Need Minimize Business Interruption

• Minimize impact of outages and downtime
• Improve resource utilization and productivity
• Track costs resulting from downtime
• Loss of current and future revenue
• Opportunity costs of being late to market
• Bottlenecks that affect operating efficiency

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy Minimize
Business Interruption

• Can support millions of users
• Enable continuous uptime application
  availability
• Comprehensive monitoring and reporting of
  business-critical systems
• Better control and management
• Integrate data centralized and distributed data
  ensures data availability

Sun RAS Features Hitachi Freedom Storage Veritas
Data Protection Suite
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Customer Need eBusiness Scalability

• Ability cost effectively scale to meet support
  eBusiness opportunities
• Support workload spikes caused by daily or weekly
  cycles and seasonal peaks
• Support increased complexity
• Scale to accommodate peaks and sudden spikes in
  usage

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GE Access Consolidation Strategy eBusiness
Scalability

• Cross-generational and cross-product line binary
  compatibility ensure the highest levels of
  scalability
• Expand more rapidly
• Less expensively
• Less risk
• Easy migration path to increase capacity and
  performance
• Non-disruptive expansion

Suns Platform Scalability StorageTek D-Series
Storage Systems Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series