The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center Operations

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By streamlining and automating data center operations, organizations can experience:

Get the Most Out of Your Data Center

The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.

IncreasedResource Utilization

GreaterInfrastructure Availability

Sharply ReducedCAPEX Costs

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Move Beyond Reactive IT Operations

Relying on traditional tools, point solutions and manual effort to manage data center operations often results in:

Lack of early visibility into system health issues can cause unplanned outages

Idle resources due to over-provisioningwaste capacity

Unanticipated capacity shortfallsincrease storage CAPEX costs

Unpredictable bottlenecks compromise the performanceof critical applications

Manually intensive operational processesreduce IT productivity

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Achieve Greater Efficiency in Your Operations

Streamlining and automating data operations helped VMware customers achieve:

Improvement in operational visibility25%Increase ininfrastructure utilization2.7xAverage productivitygains generated25%Savings inoperating costs56%

Reduction inproblem detectionand resolution time

40%

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Phase 3Phase 2

The Path to Streamlined and Automated Data Center Operations

VMware customers found this roadmap most effective when enabling key capabilities:

Phase 1

Infrastructure health monitoring

Capacity optimization

Infrastructure performance management

Third party tools integration

Unified physical/virtual management

Customized dashboards

Policy-based compliance management

Predictive analytics

Application health monitoring

Application-level quality of service

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Generate Real Results

Implementing streamlined and automated data center operations resulted in:

Significantly improvedoperational visibilityand control

Increased infrastructure utilization& less waste due to overprovisioning

Dramatic boostin IT productivity

Improved compliancewith industry regulations and internal IT policies

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VMware Solutions for Your Virtualized Data Center

Infrastructure Health Monitoring vSphere with Operations ManagementvRealize Operations InsightvRealize Operations Enterprise

Performance, Capacity & Quality-of-Service vSphere with Operations ManagementvRealize Operations InsightvCloud Suite Enterprise

Unified Physical/Virtual & 3rd Party IntegrationvRealize Operations Insight

Configuration & CompliancevRealize OperationsvRealize Automation

Professional ServicesVMware can help you determine an automation solution for your business needs

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VMware Suites Provide the Tools You Need to Get Started

For vSphere environments, we recommend vCloud Suite, which includes:• vSphere• vCenter Site

Recovery Manager

• vRealize Operations• vRealize Automation• vRealize Business

For public and hybrid cloud environments, we recommend vRealize Suite, which includes:• vRealize Log Insight• vRealize Operations

• vRealize Automation• vRealize Business

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Learn More

To find out how VMware can provide your organization with added visibility and reduced costs:

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