Presentation Business Meets IT Seminar (28/02) in Antwerp about Datacenter Optimization. I started with Cloud, Apple & 'understanding women', ended with Mitt Romney. http://www.businessmeetit.be

1. #BMIT
Welcome
Seminar Datacenters

4. Nice to meet you. I’m William

5. Smart Business Strategies

6. Smart Business Strategies
• The only Belgian IT magazine that takes the business
manager in perspective
• Business decision maker
• Target audience: managing director, IT manager, HR
manager, marketing manager,...
• Understandable and strategy focused
• Cases & user centric
• Business IT magazine that matters

9. Business Meets IT - Agenda
• 9.30: Market Research: William Visterin
(Smart Business Strategies)
• 10.00: Keynote: Daniel Lebeau, VP Management & Information
Systems GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
• 10.30: Break
• 11.00: Case: Luk Van Beneden, IT-directeur Stad Kortrijk
• 11.30: Case: Olivier Seynhaeve, IT-directeur bij Qissme / Accent Jobs
For People
• 12.00: Case: Gert Jacobs, verantwoordelijke ICT-infrastructuur en
support bij ADMB
• 12.30: Walking Dinner

10. Datacenter
Optimization

11. Trends in IT

12. 1.
Cloud
Computing

15. What kind of
cloud
are you
thinking of?

19. Cloud computing
refers…
…to the provision of
computational resources, such as
applications, databases, file services, email, etc
on demand…
via a computer network
Source: Wikipedia

21. Trends in IT

22. 2.
Post PC era

26. New
kids
on the
block

33. Trends in IT

34. 3.
Virtualization

36. “En is onze virtuele server
aangekomen, Fred?”
“Moeilijk te zeggen…?”

37. Secret sauce behind the cloud

38. Virtualization is for IT what shoes are for women

39. Datacenter computing evolution

41. Trends
in
Datacenter
Market Research

42. 1.
Consolidation

43. Implications in the Post-PC
CHOICE DATA CENTERS
COMPUTING UNIFY, BUT DATA NEW ROLES
DISAGGREGATES
The New The Cloud The Data
Developer Architect Scientist
DATA CENTERS
The New User
DATA

44. What consolidation are you talking about?
• Server Consolidation
• Storage Consolidation
• Datacenter Consolidation
• Vendor Consolidation
• …

47. Where is this going to end?
How many computers
do you need?

48. 'The world
needs only
five
computers'

52. Five computers?
• Google
• eBay
• Amazon
• Microsoft
• IBM
• Yahoo?
• Salesforce.com?

53. And… the big computer of China

54. … Hundreds Of Thousands of
Public Clouds
1.Regulatory
2.Geographic
3.Vertical

55. 2.
DIY
Market Research

56. Own datacenter or outsourcing?
• Control
• Flexibility
• Investments
• Security
• Up-to-Date
• ….

57. Beschikt u in uw organisatie over een
datacenter (of serverruimte)?
Zowel eigen
datacenter
als extern;
24%
Ja, in ons
bedrijf zelf;
Neen, wij 63%
gebruiken
extern
datacenter;
13%
Smart Business Strategies, ZDNet, 2012, N=361

58. 3.
Efficiency
Market Research

60. Energy in datacenter =
• 52 % -> Computer systems
• 38 % -> Cooling
• 9 % -> Infrastructure
• 1% -> Lightning

62. Tips for efficiency: technical
• Natural Cooling: for 92% of the time
• Heat resistant servers: from 18°- 22°to 27°-
34°
• Use heat for Office & Building heating
• Efficient networking: 1 port 10 giga > 10 port 1
giga (= 2,5 watt/hour versus 5 watt)

63. Tips for efficiency: management
• Measure
• Responsibility
• Engagement

64. Tips for efficiency: challenging

65. “Wie zijn idee was het eigenlijk om ons
datacenter aan te drijven met biogas?”

66. Stockholm

67. Iceland

68. Barcelona

69. In the world of synonyms….
Virtualization = Efficiency

71. Virtualisation in Belgium

72. Use of Virtualization in
Belgian companies
Yes: 65 %
No, but planned: 7%
No, no Plans: 28%

73. Wat kind of Virtualization?
Server virtualization: 79%
Other (desktop,…): 21%

74. Show me the money

75. Servers in Belgium….
Market Research

80. Storage in Belgium….
Market Research

82. Evolution Storage in Belgian Companies
(2010-2012)
• SAN: + 31%
• NAS: + 44%
• Tape: - 4%

83. Installed base storage
(SAN, NAS and DAS)
OTHER 15%
HP 36%
IBM 11%
DELL 11%
NETAPP 13% EMC 14%
All sites with SAN, NAS or DAS and 100 or more employees / Belgium
Computer Profile / February 2012

84. 3+3

85. And finally…

87. Are you ready
for the
presidential
race?

88. The devil is in the details
(also in the datacenter…)

93. Kind regards,
William Visterin
E-mail: William@minoc.com
Twitter: @wvisterin

94. Business Meets IT - Agenda
• 9.30: Market Research: William Visterin
(Smart Business Strategies)
• 10.00: Keynote: Daniel Lebeau, VP Management & Information
Systems GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
• 10.30: Break
• 11.00: Case: Luk Van Beneden, IT-directeur Stad Kortrijk
• 11.30: Case: Olivier Seynhaeve, IT-directeur bij Qissme / Accent Jobs
For People
• 12.00: Case: Gert Jacobs, verantwoordelijke ICT-infrastructuur en
support bij ADMB
• 12.30: Walking Dinner
•

95. #BMIT
Daniel Lebeau
Seminar Datacenters