Audience - European Journalists Occasion - Dell meeting, Stamford Bridge London Presenter(s) – Tony Lock

1. Tony Lock Freeform Dynamics Ltd [email_address] July 2008 www.freeformdynamics.com The Joy Of Bits The Storage Landscape Today and Tomorrow

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8. To what degree are the following used in your data centres and how is this changing?

11. In your own mind, how clear is the rationale for adopting Virtualization? (250-4999 employees) The arguments for Storage and Desktop virtualization are less well developed or understood

12. How much has your organisation adopted Virtualization in the following areas? (<250 employees)

13. Which of the following do you regard as significant drivers for implementing Virtualization - For Virtualized storage? (>5000 employees) Direct “cost reduction“ is not seen to be the most significant driver, unlike in most other areas of IT. Again this is true across all sizes of organization

14. Has virtualization had an effect on your hardware acquisition strategy? Virtualization is changing spending plans

17. Would you say that your organisation places the right level of importance on the 'management of IT'? ANALYST COMMENTS The biggest problem is obviously finding time to work on improvement initiatives. Even though we know that investment in tools and/or training will free up time, this is one of those classic chicken-and-egg situations. But in the question of investment, finding additional budget is always a challenge.

18. Level of burden associated with managing the growth / storage of genuinely useful corporate information ANALYST COMMENTS Over half of organisations over 50 employees have issues here.

19. How much impact on management and support processes do you see from the move to the use of virtualized storage systems?

20. How well do you think vendors support heterogeneous virtualized storage?

22. Virtualised Computing ILM and Power Costs visible as never before Media Servers Information Access – At All Times, and Fast with little / no IT intervention Information Access – At All Times, and Fast with little / no IT intervention Presentation Layer Processing Layer Data Management Layer Web Servers Portal Server Msging Servers Security Server Dir. Servers ID Server Proxy Server App Servers Integr’n Servers Trans’n Servers File Servers Database Servers Access Devices Access Devices Access Devices Security & Access Management Application & System Management Data Management Web Servers Portal Server Msging Servers Security Server Dir. Servers ID Server Proxy Server App Servers Integr’n Servers Trans’n Servers File Servers Database Servers Access Devices Access Devices Access Devices Security & Access Management Application & System Management Data Management