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1 In concert IT: How Australian organisations can reduce cost and complexity with integrated infrastructure A Computerworld report in partnership with EMC and Cisco August 2014

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3 Contents Introduction... 2 Research methodology... 3 Infrastructure complexity poses application challenges... 4 Scalability, cost pressure infrastructure investments... 6 Virtualisation lights way to infrastructure convergence... 7 Integrated infrastructure set to raise efficiency, productivity... 9 Conclusion About this report About Computerworld About EMC About Cisco HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE 1

4 Introduction Scaling to meet the needs of the business is the number one challenge of infrastructure management in large organisations Cost efficiency is identified by over half of survey respondents as an outcome of adopting an integrated infrastructure. Speed of deployment is currently restrictive with up to 90% of organisations outlining it takes more than two weeks to deploy a new application and over 35% confirming it takes more than two months. Over a third of respondents predict agility and productivity to be increased with an integrated infrastructure. As information management and application delivery become crucial to the success of Australian organisations across all industry sectors, CIOs and IT business leaders are challenged more than ever to invest in technology infrastructure that is agile and scalable. Existing IT environments are mainly comprised of separate components for servers, storage and networking. This piecemeal approach carriers with it the burden of integration work and interoperability testing, in addition to ongoing administration requirements like security and disaster recovery. The past decade has seen the uptake of server and storage virtualisation technology which reduces the dependence on physical systems and increases an organisation s ability to turn around new projects. Despite the prevalence of virtualisation use for both regular and mission-critical applications 37 per cent of Australian IT and business leaders report their organisation takes more than two months to deploy an application. Virtualisation alone is not a cure-all for application, and therefore business, agility. More recently, IT systems vendors have brought to market integrated infrastructure as an alternative to disparate systems and management software. The most significant infrastructure challenges faced by organisations are budget constraints (cost) and scalability in response to business demands both of which vary markedly due to company size. For organisations with less than 500 staff, more CIOs see budget constraints as the key challenge, compared with their counterparts in organisations with more than 500 staff. For scaling to match the changing needs of the business 25 per cent of large company IT leaders view this as the greatest challenge compared with 16 per cent of CIOs in smaller organisations. Integrated infrastructure brings together server, storage and networking technology into a virtualised platform designed to work in unison. By investing in integrated infrastructure instead of disparate components Australian organisations can realise greater cost efficiency and reduce the time it takes to deploy applications thereby increasing business agility. According to 35 per cent of Australian CIOs and business leaders, the organisation s overall productivity will be increased with integrated infrastructure. With nearly 40 per cent of enterprises yet to evaluate or consider integrated infrastructure there exists a good opportunity for unified systems to migrate applications away from traditional disparate system architectures. Furthermore, only 3 per cent of organisations have decided against deploying integrated infrastructure. Integrated infrastructure is a modern approach to streamlining application deployment and improving business agility. This report investigates problems with existing approaches to looks at the benefits integrated infrastructure can offer organisations. 2 HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

5 Research methodology The research findings presented in this report were derived from a Computerworld online survey of 150 CIOs and senior IT business leaders conducted in June, Only responses from senior IT and business professionals were included in the results. The respondents were from Australian organisations ranging in size from 100 employees to more than 10,000 across 20 industry sectors. The research was conducted independent of any vendor influence. HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE 3

6 Infrastructure complexity poses application challenges Australian organisations rely on the provision of applications for their key information management requirements. Everything from customer data to marketing documents depend on the prudent management of applications in order to be usable by staff and partner organisations Many organisations, however, still struggle with complex server, storage and networking infrastructure and this complexity is impacting their ability to deploy applications. As many as 37 per cent of IT and business leaders report their organisation takes more than two months to deploy an application. The application lead time can have a profound impact on the organisation s ability to operate, particularly if the business requirement is time sensitive. Conversely, only 14 per cent of business leaders believe their IT organisation is capable of deploying a new application in under two weeks indicating there is significant room for improvement before most businesses will achieve real-time application deployment. The average time taken to deploy a production application in Australian enterprises More than 3 months Less than 3 months Less than 2 months Less than 1 months Less than 2 weeks Less than 1 week 37% of Australian organisations take more than 2 months to deploy a new application into production 4 HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

7 The survey also investigated the causes of the most significant delays, or lead times, when implementing new applications. For most organisation security is causing the most significant delays with application deployments and can be viewed as a symptom of having to secure disparate parts of the infrastructure from data storage systems to networks. The second biggest blocker to application deployment is the organisation s existing operations management. Internal operations vary greatly between different organisations, however, the requirement to piece together infrastructure resources from server, storage and networking equipment does not help and organisation streamline application delivery. Integrated infrastructure might not change established operations, but if it requires less management overhead it can lessen the burden of application delivery. Server and network components are seen by 29 and 31 per cent of IT leaders, respectively, as causing the most significant delays when implementing new applications, indicating there is a lot of room for improvement in infrastructure management. System and security infrastructure holding back new applications Security 41% Operations 39% Network 31% Servers 29% End-user client provisioning 17% Database Storage 13% 15% Around 30% of survey respondents believe servers and networks cause the most significant delays when deploying new applications HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE 5

8 Scalability, cost pressure infrastructure investments To understand the types of infrastructure challenges Australian IT leaders are facing, Computerworld investigated key pain points for both small and large organisations. The survey asked respondents to nominate some of the biggest challenges their organisation faces when it comes to IT infrastructure from cost to complexity. Budget constraints and scalability in response to business demands are the two infrastructure challenges that vary most significantly due to company size. For organisations with less than 500 staff, 31 per cent of CIOs cite budget constraints as a key challenge, compared with 19 per cent of their counterparts in organisations with more than 500 staff. For scaling to match the changing needs of the business the reverse is apparent with 25 per cent of large company IT leaders citing this as the greatest challenge 9 per cent more than CIOs of smaller organisations. Factors like reliability, deployment speed and managing complexity are quite even regardless of the organisation size. Integrated infrastructure presents a real opportunity for organisations of all sizes to reduce costs and scale to meet changing business requirements. Key infrastructure challenges for small and large organisations 500+ Employees Sub 500 Employees % 18% 18% 20% 19% Scaling to match the changing needs of the business Delivering reliability Speed of deployment Managing complexity Working within budget constraints % 16% 15% 19% 31% Scaling to match the changing needs of the business Delivering reliability Speed of deployment Managing complexity Working within budget constraints 6 HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

9 Virtualisation lights way to infrastructure convergence With critical infrastructure components like servers and networks seen as an impediment to application deployment, many organisations now use server virtualisation technology to streamline the process of managing server resources. Respondents were also asked to nominate the rate of mission-critical applications they have virtualised and only 22 per cent of organisations have more than 50 per cent of their mission-critical applications virtualised. The survey found that a high proportion of organisations (87%) now have more than 25 per cent of their servers virtualised allowing them to provision and de-provision resources for applications in a more agile way than having to install more physical servers which then can sit idle during times of reduced business demand. Virtualisation penetration among Australian organisations Mission-critical applications are less virtualised 13% 9% 19% 59% 31% 6% 47% 16% 26% to 50% 59% 51% to 75% 19% Over 75% 9% Under 25% 13% 26% to 50% 47% 51% to 75% 16% Over 75% 6% Under 25% 31% HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE 7

10 The reasons for this lower uptake of mission-critical applications running in virtual machines range from performance to software licencing agreements, but Australian organisations will continue to host more and more business-critical applications in virtual machines as the technology becomes more pervasive and more flexibility over how the applications are managed is required. The Microsoft stack of applications is now popular among virtualised environments, with only 16 per cent of organisations not having any applications running in virtual machines. With server virtualisation use high and the technology is able to reduce system management overhead, why are IT and business leaders still rating servers as a key blocker when it comes to implementing new applications? The answer lies with how virtualisation and the resident virtual servers are managed and how they integrate with the rest of the components required to deliver applications. Virtual servers need to use storage and networking services in the same way as physical servers and if they are deployed in isolation will not lead to a integrated infrastructure. True integrated infrastructure uses virtualisation technology across servers, storage and networking to provision resources and applications in a concerted way. Have you ever deployed any of the following applications in a virtual environment? Microsoft SQL Server 35% Microsoft Exchange 26% Microsoft SharePoint 21% None Deployed 16% Citrix XenDesktop 13% VMware Horizon View 10% The journey from disparate IT systems to integrated infrastructure Disparate servers, storage and networking System virtualisation Converged infrastructure 8 HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

11 Integrated infrastructure set to raise efficiency, productivity Organisations managing separate components for servers, storage and networking are subject to management and operations overhead associated with configuration, interoperability and ultimately optimisation processes. Even if the components themselves are best of breed the burden of making everything work together can quickly overcome the individual benefits. In recent years a new generation of integrated infrastructure systems have emerged to give organisations the option of procuring their server, storage and networking requirements in one integrated system rather than a suite of components. Integrated infrastructure promises to dramatically reduce the complexity of resource allocation and therefore application deployment. Even more compelling is the cost efficiency benefit IT and business leaders see integrated systems bringing to their organisation. More than 50 per cent of survey respondents see greater cost efficiency as an outcome of adopting a integrated infrastructure. This is a very tangible benefit that can result in reduced operating expenses. Organisations set to realise big benefits from integrated infrastructure Greater cost efficiency 52% Increased agility including time to provision Increased productivity 35% 35% Improved customer (Employee) experience 30% Better use of existing resources Reduced downtime Ease of intergration 24% 27% 26% More than half of the survey respondents believe integrated infrastructure will result in greater cost efficiency for the organisation a real win for the bottom line HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE 9

12 Secondly, and most crucial to overcoming the challenges many organisations have with existing disparate systems, is increased agility, including time to provision. More than one-third of the IT and business leaders surveyed see integrated systems as a path to reducing application deployment time and therefor increasing the business agility. In line with agility and application provisioning, 35 per cent of respondents believe overall productivity will be increased with integrated infrastructure, which again will have a positive affect on the organisation s performance. Improved employee experience with IT and applications also resonates well with IT leaders. If staff can get good levels of service and performance from their applications then, in turn, their productivity will also increase. Australian IT and business leaders are conscious of the benefits integrated infrastructure can bring to their organisation including greater cost efficiency, reduced application deployment times and increased productivity. How Australian organisations are using integrated infrastructure Not Evaluating/ Considering Yet 39% Other 2% Under Construction 26% Purchased/ Deployed 9% Decided Against 3% Currently in Planning 21% The state of integrated infrastructure use in Australia The Computerworld survey probed the current state of integrated infrastructure use in Australian organisations and interest in a more unified approach to servers, storage and networking is significant with 47 per cent of CIOs either planning for or considering its use. Furthermore, only 3 per cent of organisations have decided against deploying integrated infrastructure indicating a low incidence of disapproval. With nearly 40 per cent of survey respondents yet to evaluate or consider integrated infrastructure there exists a good opportunity for unified systems to migrate applications away from traditional disparate system architectures. 10 HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

13 Conclusion Australian organisations are increasingly pressured for rapid deployment of applications to support changing business service requirements. Existing approaches of integrating disparate server, storage and networking components are resulting in lengthy lead times for the implementation of new applications. Server and storage virtualisation, while able to increase the individual efficiency of those services, still requires manual integration and administration. And despite virtualisation being widely used, organisations continue to face application deployment challenges. A new approach is to replace disparate systems with integrated infrastructure to minimise deployment overheads and increase business agility. HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE 11

14 About this report This report was independently produced by Computerworld and sponsored by EMC and Cisco. Respondent role IT Manager/2IC CIO/IT Director IT: Analyst, Developer Other IT Networking General/Operations Manager Finance, Accounting Senior Management Education, Academic IT: Security IT: Consultant/Contractor IT: Security/Compliance Respondent organisation size, by employee count 2,500-4,999 13% Respondent industry sector Finance, Banking, Insurance Education 8% 13% 5,000-9,999 11% 10,000+ 9% 1,000-2,499 18% % Retail, Wholesale (non-it) Professional & Consulting Services IT Manufacturer Government - State & Local Other Property, Construction, Engineering Manufacturing 7% 7% 7% 7% 6% 6% 6% % % Hospital & Healthcare Mining, Oil, Refining 5% 6% Government - Federal Travel, Tourism & Hospitality 5% 4% Telecommunications Advertising, Marketing, PR Utilities, Transportation Pharmaceutical \& Biotechnology Retail, Wholesale 2% 3% 3% 3% 3% HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

15 About Computerworld is published by IDG Communications. International Data Group (IDG) is the world s leading technology media, events and research company. Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, IDG products and services reach an audience of more than 280 million technology buyers in 97 countries. IDG Communications global media brands include ChannelWorld, CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, PCWorld and TechWorld. IDG s media network features 460 websites, 200 mobile sites and apps, and 200 print titles spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment, and video games worldwide. The IDG TechNetwork represents more than 500 independent websites in an ad network and exchange complementary to IDG s media brands. About EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS). Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyse their most valuable asset information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. australia.emc.com About Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. HOW AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS CAN REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE 13

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