UNIX to Linux. Reasons, Risks, Rewards.

REASONS FOR LINUX

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Industry Trends

• In 2009, IDC predicted UNIX market would go from

$69 BN in 2008 towards $75 BN in 2013.

• In 2013, IDC predicted UNIX market would slide from

$10 BN in 2012 towards $8.7 BN in 2017.

...What happened?

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Linux Today

• 90% of High-performance computing (HPC) market.

• 65% of smart mobile devices, 55% of embedded systems.

• 90% of OS migrations are from UNIX, more than 50% are landing

on linux systems.

• 15-20% of organizations have some legacy UNIX misc apps.

HOW ARE WE GOING TO ADAPT IN FUTURE?

• Evolution of Work– Virtual lab environments– GitHub, Laravel

• Mobility and Internet of Everything– Security– LAMP

• Software Defined Everything– Virtual Compute

• Big Data – In memory databases (TimesTen, 12g)– Distributed (Hadoop, MapReduce, NoSQL)

Trends in 2015

MITIGATING RISKS

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» Discovery» Documentation» Strategy » Portability» Preparation» Testing Data Migrations

Checklist to Mitigate Risks

REWARDS

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Business Transformation

Financial services firm divestiture become new free-standing entity from AIX to Linux

» Complete IT Landscape migration inclusive of an AIX to Enterprise Linux migration for all critical applications as it was divesting from parent group.

» All servers, WAN, & several hundred applications.

» SAP, CA IDM, CA SiteMinder, CA Service Desk, BlueCat, Bluecoat, AxWay, Layer7, Active Directory, RedHat, VMWare, Oracle, Windows Server 2008, MS SQL, MySQL, Data Domain, Cognos, Drupal, F5, Juniper, Sophos, DNS, SharePoint, Symantec, JBoss

» Migrated 3000+ Lotus Notes users to Microsoft Exchange 2010

» All applications under Disaster Recovery management

Savings of $28M over 3 years

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Migration for cost, quality of service and speed!

Re-platform, Migration, Modernization.

Double digit % savings over past provider.

Delivered HFM and Planning in less than 4 weeks to

support aggressive timelines.

Secure-24 was able to stand up 32 servers in

3 days – a feat previous provider would have taken

months to accomplish.

Global Auto Supplier Transformed

THE DECISION: Migration, Ability to Deploy and Provision Quickly, Quality of Service

$16B automotive systems supplier needed to transition from their previous provider in a matter of weeks due to a canceled contract with that provider.

ROI

32 servers in 3 days

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» Save direct 15-20% over traditional UNIX environments.

» Modern future protection.

» 12-month ROI, many indirect gains.

» Availability of support and talent.

» Less time on basic infrastructure,

more focus on business-level value.

Rewards

THANK YOU

REFERENCES

• “12 months or less ROI RISC to X86.” 1. 1 Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Closer Look http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2012/01/linux-adoption-trends-2012-closer-look