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Platform Market, Business & Strategy. August 27, 2008. Platform Computing. Recognized leader and pioneer in Grid computing and HPC 17 years solving the most challenging enterprise distributed computing problems Global offices, resellers and partners - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
August 27, 2008
Platform Market, Business & Strategy
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Platform Computing• Recognized leader and pioneer
in Grid computing and HPC– 17 years solving the most challenging enterprise distributed
computing problems – Global offices, resellers and partners– 24x7 worldwide service, support, and consulting– Continual innovation in new product development & open standards– Close to 500 employees worldwide– Growing and profitable since its inception
• 2,000+ global customers in many vertical markets– Financial Services, Electronics, Aerospace, Automotive, Life
Sciences, Oil & Gas, Government, Universities & Research, Telco, Business Intelligence
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IT Industry Trends
Cloud Computing, Dynamic IT, Grid, On Demand, Organic IT, SaaS, Scalable Enterprise, SOA, SOI, Utility Computing, Virtualization, Web 2.0, …
What: Agile, scalable, cost effective IT infrastructure for rapidly changing, highly competitive business
How: Leverage commodity hardware, share IT resources, automate administration, deliver SLA
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Automation:Policy-based Orchestration
Predictable, TransparentFlexible & Extensible
Simple & Intuitive SLA configurationResource-aware
The Dynamic Data Center
Physical & Virtual Server
Environments
Multi-vendor Hypervisor Support
Cloud Integration
Self-Service PortalReporting,
Chargeback, Planning
Scalable, Reliable, Highly Available, Secure, Energy
Efficient
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Physical Machine
Provisioning
Dynamic Package Management
Monitoring, Events, Alerting
Reporting, Analytics,
Chargeback
LSF, SymphonyHPC Workload Acceleration
Platform VMOVirtual Infrastructure
Management
Platform ManagerPhysical
Infrastructure Management
EGO: Orchestration Policy Engine
SAS AcceleratorBI Acceleration
VirtualMachine
Provisioning
CloudProvisioning
Platform Solution Portfolio
XenServer Hyper-V
ESX Xen
Enabling the Dynamic Data Center
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Citi – Corporate Shared ServicesFX derives Pricing & Hedging
Converts Pricing & Hedging
Credit Derivs, Pricing/Hedging
Enterprise Mkt Risk
Counterparty Credit Risk
Acc’ting, Actuarial Analysis
Fraud, Anti-Laundering
CRM, Data Mining, Credit Scoring
More & more apps from LOB silos
Operational Risk
Platform SymphonyPlatform LSFPlatform EGO
Platform EGO
Platform Symphony
Platform LSF
Real-time
Applications
Long Running
Applications
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Singapore National Cloud
Platform VMO, Platform LSF Platform SymphonyPlatform EGO, Platform OCS 5Singapore Computer Systems
• Supports Singapore's growth as Shared Services hub
• Frees enterprises from installing, maintaining hardware & applications locally
• Allows SaaS ISVs to incubate commercial services
• Accelerates adoption of SaaS & cloud computing in private & public sectors
Software Development
HR Department
Finance Department
Life Sciences research
• 2,400 cores, HP blades, 16 TB of storage• Primary users – government agencies, commercial businesses• Cloud infrastructure – Platform VMO • CRM, financial, accounting, HR apps, secure online storage, &
engineering workloads
Government Ministry
Government Agency
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Evolution of Grid Adoption
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DistributedClusters
Today
Utility Grid / Cloud• Virtualization of services• Dynamic service
provisioning• On Demand, Utility• SaaS, SOA
Internet Data CentersPowered by xSPs
Enterprise Grid / Internal Cloud
• Cluster-to-cluster sharing management
• Reliable file transfer & staging
Enterprise