EMC VBLOCK ENABLEMENT SERVICES FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR Accelerate your cloud with converged infrastructure ESSENTIALS Accelerate the production value of your Vblock Infrastructure Platform investment by:

• Activating the Vblock platform in your data center

• Integrating the Vblock platform into your cloud services strategy

• Integrating the Vblock platform into your operational processes and tools

• Populating your Vblock platform with application workloads

Cloud is a top IT priority for both government agencies and their mission partners. This is particularly true within the federal government, given the U.S. CIO’s 25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management and a federal “Cloud First” directive; but the momentum toward cloud and converged infrastructure is driving IT priorities at the state and local levels as well.

Today, there are an increasing number of federal agencies either investigating or already adopting some level of cloud computing for various workloads. Converged infrastructure platforms incorporating storage, servers, and networking provide a technology foundation for cloud that maximizes agility benefits. Vblock® Infrastructure Platforms from VCE, the virtual computing company, provide converged infrastructure for cloud with an integrated IT offering, best-in-class solution components and end-to-end vendor accountability.

Vblock Enablement Services from EMC® Global Services accelerate the transformation to cloud—whether public, community, private, or hybrid—by integrating Vblock platforms into your cloud services strategy, IT operational processes and tools, and cloud workload priorities.

SERVICE OVERVIEW

BUSINESS CHALLENGES Demand for increased efficiency and cost savings is driving transformation across federal, state, and local governments. Service providers and government IT leaders are implementing Vblock platforms to realize the agility and economy of cloud as they seek to comply with an increasing number of efficiency and cost-reduction mandates.

To realize the full value of Vblock platform investments and achieve mission objectives, these converged infrastructure platforms must be part of an integrated operations and service strategy. A successful cloud infrastructure requires that IT address organizational, operational, and technology issues. Specifically, operational processes and toolsets must be optimized for cloud; Vblock platforms must deliver services that the business can readily consume; and the right set of applications needs to be running on the Vblock platform.

SERVICE DESCRIPTION EMC Vblock Enablement Services provide everything you need to put your Vblock platform into production and quickly realize the value of your converged infrastructure platform investment by integrating your Vblock platform into your current environment and operational processes.

The specific service components include:

• Vblock Activation implements your Vblock platform, including system burn-in and test, configuration and testing of pre-installed software, and integration with existing services such as networking and security.

• Vblock Service Enablement establishes service blueprints for two private cloud services, including definition and implementation of gold standard images with security requirements to support Vblock platforms.

• Vblock Integration sets up foundation IT service management processes and tools to operate your Vblock platform, including management and orchestration software and integration with your Configuration Management Database (CMDB).

• Vblock Population defines a plan for migrating application workloads to your Vblock platform, including workload selection, identification of migration techniques and procedures, and migration execution.

SERVICE VALUE EMC's public sector consulting experts support the needs of civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies, as well as national non-government organizations (NGOs). Our solutions aid our customers and systems integration partners in defining and executing the right course of action to achieve success in the drive for IT transformation. With years of experience designing and deploying architectures incorporating best-in-class technologies from VMware®, EMC, and Cisco, EMC Global Services has a unique capability to efficiently operationalize customer workloads in this environment. We integrate converged infrastructure to meet agency-specific mission and business requirements, using field-tested tools, proven methodologies, and best practices gained from engagements across both public and private sectors.

CONTACT US To learn more about how EMC products, services, and solutions can help solve your business and IT challenges, contact your local representative or authorized reseller—or visit us at www.EMC.com.

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• EMC Global Services deployed cloud infrastructure based on Vblock platforms in 10 weeks

• Fully automated Platform as a Service (PaaS) launched to support the new business initiative

• Time to provision was reduced from 58 days to less than one day

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