MindSurf 2014 Software Defined Data Center presentation

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Software Defined Data
Center
The Next Evolution of Business
and IT

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About Deluxe
 HQ in Shoreview, MN
 Largest Check Printer in US
 6,000 employees across the US
 4.5 million small business customers
 Largest provider of marketing and other
services to small business
 100th Anniversary in 2015!
 $1.6 billion in annual revenue, market cap
$2.75 billion

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Agenda
 3rd Wave, Platform, Etc.
 Disruption Everywhere
 Everything as a Service
 Software to the rescue
 Data Center Strategies
 What can you do?
 Bring it all home

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The 3rd Platform
 1st was the mainframe
 2nd was client server
 3rd is “the cloud”
 Some will argue the cloud is different

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Disruption Happens
 “No one is entitled to their business
model…”

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Big Distruption
Imagine the disruption cars that drive
themselves will create…

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Software is Eating the World…
 …on a steady diet of data
 …generated by the “Internet of Things”
 Sensors EVERYWHERE

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We’ve Only Just Begun…
 Hands and feet inside the car, this ride
is taking off…

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One Definition of a Cloud
 Shared infrastructure
 Virtualized
 Orchestration layer
 Automated processes
 Service Catalog
 Self-Service Portal

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Would You Build a Data Center?
or

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But I Have One of These…

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Optimize That Data Center!
 Software is defining everything!
 What was once manual can now be
automated…

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Server Virtualization Led the Way
 WMware started it all, well actually
mainframes did.
 Started the consolidation wave in the early
‘00’s
 Evolved into Software Defined Servers
a.k.a. “Compute”

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Software Can Define Anything!
 Storage was next…2008
 Networks are the latest craze…2012
 Application “containers” are coming
quickly…2014/2015

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A New Discipline…
 All this software defining has exposed real
costs of providing IT services.

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Think Two Modes

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“But I Need Cost Takeout Now!”
 Review current processes, tighten where
possible
 Automation and orchestration can help
 Pick simple use cases first, like VM
provisioning
 Layer on more complex services later
 Be ready to deal with IT team disruption
 Cost savings can be 20% to 40%

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Future Plans
 Strategy starts with involving the business
 Look at a bimodal architecture
 Build a roadmap, 3 year plan is good
 Understand your costs and where you can
optimize, TCO, ROI
 Tie your budget priorities to the roadmap
 2015 is a great time to start, any later and
you’re playing catch up

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Mind the Gap

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Wrap Up
 Embrace change, it’s a good thing!

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Contact Info
Brad Skeel
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
brad.skeel@deluxe.com
Presentation on http://www.slideshare.net

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