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May 13, 2021March 7, 2022

ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI Environments

ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Cloud VDI Environments

ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI Environments

The following is a new Industry Trends Perspective White Paper Report titled ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI Environments.

This new StorageIO report looks at ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI environments. Using a Pro-Forma analysis this report provides a financial economic model comparison with Return on Investment (ROI) cost savings analysis for managing cloud based virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) environments.

IT data infrastructure resource (servers, storage, I/O network, hardware, software, services) decision-making involves evaluating and comparing technical attributes (speeds, feeds, features) of a solution or service. Another aspect of data infrastructure resource decision-making involves assessing how a solution or service will support and enable a given application workload, along with associated management costs from a Performance, Availability, Capacity, and Economic (PACE) perspective.

Keep in mind that all application workloads have some amount of PACE resource requirements that may be high, low or various permutations, along with associated management costs. Performance, Availability (including data protection along with security) as well as Capacity are addressed via technical speeds, feeds, functionality along with workload suitability analysis.

Management costs are a function of initial and recurring tasks to support a given function or service such as VDI. The cost of management includes staff salary, along with amount of time needed to perform various tasks. The E in PACE resource decision-making is about the Economic analysis of various costs associated with different solution approaches.

ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI Environments

The above image is an example from the White Paper Report titled ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI Environments.

In the example shown above, 36 month OpEx cost (and time) savings are shown using traditional cloud based VDI management tools, technologies and techniques vs. a modern cloud platform integrated global control plane solution. Leveraging a cloud platform integrated global control plane solution such as NetApp VDS among others, management costs can be reduced for initial and recurring tasks from $2,587,394 to $968,041 for 1,001 users.

In addition to the cost savings shown above, note the reduction in management hours of 21,653 over 36 months which could be used for doing other work, or reducing your OpEx spend. Of course your savings will vary based on what tasks, time per task, admin cost among other considerations.

The shift from Capital Expenditures (e.g. CapEx) IT data infrastructure spending to Operational Expenditures (e.g. OpEx) focus particular with IT clouds has resulted in increased OpEx budget demands. Increased spending is more than simply moving IT spend from the CapEx to OpEx columns in budgets. OpEx increases are a cumulation of increased cloud services and data infrastructure spend, along with management (initial and recurring) costs.

The good news is that there are OpEx opportunities to reduce, or, stretch your IT budget to do more while boosting productivity, performance, and effectiveness without compromise. By looking at how to use new technologies in new ways, including leverage cloud platform integrated global control planes for management of VDI (and other functions), initial and recurring OpEx management costs can be reduced.

Read more in this Server StorageIO Industry Trends Report here.

Where to learn more

Learn more about ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI Environments, Clouds and Data Infrastructure related trends, tools, technologies and topics via the following links:

Application Data Value Characteristics Everything Is Not the Same
PACE your Infrastructure decision-making, it’s about application requirements
Cloud conversations: confidence, certainty, and confidentiality
Industry adoption vs. industry deployment, is there a difference?
Ten tips to reduce your cloud compute storage costs
Don’t Stop Learning Expand Your Skills Experiences Everyday
ToE NVMeoF TCP Performance Reduce Costs
Data Infrastructure Server Storage I/O Tradecraft Trends
Data Infrastructure Overview, Its What’s Inside of Data Centers
Data Infrastructure Management (Insight and Strategies)
Data Protection Diaries (Archive, Backup, BC, BR, DR, HA, Security)
NetApp VDS with Global Control Plane Cloud VDI Management

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

What this all means

In addition, looking at your IT data infrastructure cloud spend can also help you to boost the effectiveness, productivity and return on investment while reducing your OpEx spend, or doing more with it. Leveraging financial pro-forma analysis as a tool in conjunction with your technology feature function, speeds, feeds comparisons enables informed decision making.

When comparing and making data infrastructure resource decisions, consider the application workload PACE characteristics. Shift or expand your focus from simply looking at costs from a efficiency utilization perspective to also include performance, productivity, and effectiveness of your IT OpEx spending.

Keep in mind that PACE means Performance (productivity), Availability (data protection), Capacity and Economics. This includes making decisions from a technical feature, functionality (speeds and feeds) capacity as well as how the solution supports your application workload. Leverage resources including tools to perform analysis including ROI From Use Of Global Control Plane For Expanding VDI Environments approaches.

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Cheers GS

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, previous 10 time VMware vExpert. Author of Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press), Data Infrastructure Management (CRC Press), as well as Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press), Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and twitter @storageio. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

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February 5, 2014January 23, 2019

Removing complexity and cost to drive return on innovation the new ROI

Storage I/O trends

Removing complexity and cost to drive return on innovation the new ROI

There is no such thing as an information recession however there the realities of economic challenges in IT data centers also known as information factories.

Likewise, people and data are living longer with increased dependency on information being available and reliable when needed. Hence the need for data infrastructures that protect, preserve and serve information in a cost-effective productive way.

Driving return on innovation (the new ROI) to support growth

A common challenge for organizations of all size is how to support business and data growth while working within budget constraints without compromising on customer service expectations. Simply cutting cost at the price of reliability, availability, serviceability or performance is not an option for most environments.

Driving data center and data infrastructure sustainability

The solution is to find and remove complexity and thus remove costs. How to carry out the above goal is to leverage various tools and techniques to streamline IT and data infrastructures in creative ways.

Core IT building blocks (servers, storage and networking, hardware and software)

With data storage along with servers, networks and associated software management tools being the fundamental building blocks for traditional, virtual and cloud environments, it makes sense to apply some focus there.

How you use different tools and technologies to address various challenges while enabling your organization to be more effective and productive will decide your return on innovation, the new ROI. The new ROI is a companion reflecting qualitative business benefits vs. traditional black and white quantitative spreadsheet numbers based indicators.

Watch out for Garbage In, Garbage Out ROI and TCO analysis

Return on innovation reflects how various tools and technologies, joined with different processes, procedures, and best practices and people skills are combined to address a problem or challenge and enable some benefit. An example is deploying storage optimization techniques to support growth by finding and removing complexities, boosting effectiveness (as well as efficiency) without negatively affecting productivity.

Where financial based ROI looks at a number that may show impacts to customer service, return on innovation highlights the business benefit (e.g. perhaps non-financial) such as getting more work done in same amount of time or keeping customers satisfied.

Keep in mind, that when you can find and remove complexity, cost savings are the usual benefit vs. finding and moving or masking problems that end up costing more over time.

Ok, nuff said (for now)

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
twitter @storageio

December 13, 2012January 18, 2021

Hardware, Software, what about Valueware?

I am surprised nobody has figured out how to use the term valueware to describe their hardware, software or services solutions, particular around cloud, big data, little data, converged solution stacks or bundles, virtualization and related themes.

Cloud and virtualization building blocks transformed into Valueware

Note that I’m referring to IT hardware and not what you would usually find at a TrueValue hardware store (disclosure, I like to shop there for things to innovate with and address the non IT to do project list).

Instead of value add software or what might otherwise be called an operating system (OS), or middleware, glue, hypervisor, shims or agents, I wonder who will be first to use valueware? Or who will be the first to say they were the first to articulate the value of their industry unique and revolutionary solution using valueware?

For those not familiar, converged solution stack bundles combine server, storage and networking hardware along with management software and other tools in a prepackaged solution from the same or multiple vendors. Examples include Dell VIS (not to be confused with their reference architectures or fish in Dutch), VCE or EMC vBlocks, IBM Puresystems, NetApp FlexPods and Oracle Exaboxes among others.

Why is it that the IT or ICT (for my European friends) industries are not using valueware?

Is Valueware not being used because it has not been brought to their attention yet or part of anybody’s buzzword bingo list or read about in an industry trade rag (publication) or blog (other than here) or on twitter?

Is it because the term value in some marketers opinion or view their research focus groups associate with being cheap or low-cost? If that is the case, I wonder how many of those marketing focus groups actually include active IT or ICT professionals. If those research marketing focus groups contact practicing IT or ICT pros, then there would be a lower degree of separation to the information, vs. professional focus group or survey participants who may have a larger degree of separation from practioneers.

Depending on who uses valueware first and how used, if it becomes popular or trendy, rest assured there would be bandwagon racing to the train station to jump on board the marketing innovation train.

On the other hand, using valueware could be an innovative way to help articulate soft product value (read more about hard and soft product here). For those not familiar, hard product does not simply mean hardware, it includes many technologies (including hardware, software, networks, services) that combined with best practices and other things to create a soft product (solution experience).

Whatever the reason, I am assuming that valueware is not going to be used by creative marketers so let us have some fun with it instead.

Let me rephrase that, let us leave valueware alone, instead look at the esteemed company it is in or with (some are for fun, some are for real).

APIware (having some fun with those who see the world via APIs)
Cloudware (not to be confused with cloud washing)
Firmware (software tied to hardware, is it hardware or software? ;) )
Hardware (something software, virtualization and clouds run on)
Innovationware (not to be confused with a data protection company called Innovation)
Larryware (anything Uncle Larry wants it to be)

Marketware (related to marketecture)
Middleware (software to add value or glue other software together)
Netware (RIP Ray Noorda)
Peopleware (those who use or support IT and cloud services)
Santaware (come on, tis the season right)
Sleepware (disks and servers spin down to sleep using IPM techniques)
Slideware (software defined marketing presentations)
Software (something that runs on hardware)
Solutionware (could be a variation of implementation of soft product)
Stackware (something that can also be done with Tupperware)
Tupperware (something that can be used for food storage)
Valueware (valueware.us points to this page, unless somebody wants to buy or rent it ;) )
Vaporware (does vaporware actually exist?)

More variations can be added to the above list, for example substituting ware for wear. However, I will leave that up to your own creativity and innovation skills.

Let’s see if anybody starts to use Valueware as part of their marketware or value proposition slideware pitches, and if you do use it, let me know, be happy to give you a shout out.

Ok, nuff said.

Cheers gs

Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004)

twitter @storageio

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