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Typical IT infrastructure management throws up questions everyday, these could

be

Hardware based – virtualisation

Software – EOL risk, dead s/w

Or, & often, both, e.g. unplug a server, effect on rest of h/w and business
applications?

Getting these answers is very manual, time consuming, costly and potentially
risky if companies work of inaccurate data
Hardware
We’ve consistently demonstrated that between 2.5-5% of servers running in the data center are
marked as decommissioned in the fixed asset register. And yet those servers are still sitting in the
data center, sucking up precious space, heat/cooling, and maintenance costs.
This improved knowledge of the IT infrastructure allows customers to find more savings in
optimization
We found that 3% of servers – 100 of them – at Wachovia were registered as
decommissioned but were still in the dc
We found 868 server at a global outsourcer – they counted 350 before

Software
Very difficult to manually keep an accurate software inventory
All companies have shelfware
Worse, in these difficult times more and more software vendors turning to existing customers for
revenue, software true-ups on the rise. Need good information entering these negotiations
A major global investment bank was audited by a well-known database firm. Their estimate
on license usage turned out to be off by 100%. Luckily, they were able to get accurate
figures with BMC before those negotiations.
One of our enterprise customers reported seven-figure savings in this area alone – just on
the basis of negotiating a renewal contract from a position of strength

People
DC is a moving target and often by the time the audit is complete things have changed and the
audit information is wrong
Based on our experience with clients, 1 FTE audits 20 servers in a day
Extrapolated across 5000+ servers this is huge
Customer doing SOX Audit counted 400 servers, we found another 100
So how does BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) do this?

1) Find all the components of your IT Estate – lightweight, agent-less

2) Analyse this data and create a picture of how h/w, s/w and business services
link together, what the dependencies are and the effect f change
3) Display this information in easy to use & understand displays, like reports
4) Integrate into your existing infrastructure

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DC Optimisation
To optimise a DC you need to know what you have – start with the audit
Once you have your data where do you start? I want to find the servers causing
me cooling problems:
I have to start with some Excel voodoo: filtering, pivot tables etc to sort
the data into chunks I can manage
Will have to overlay data from a selection of tools I have deployed. I
probably won’t have full coverage.
I may have to google for information that I just don’t have
Eventually I will end up with a candidate list of servers
Now I want to transition them, but what is the impact?? I must now start another
process of understanding what will happen if I move them
Foundation is an appliance that discovers your:
-Hardware – from servers, to VMS, to switches
-Software – business applications, versions, patches, OS
-the dependencies between them, so you know what applications will be affected
by hardware changes

-More than this though. Applications and servers are only as important as the
business services these underpin and we can help our clients organize and
understand their infrastructure by business services e.g. Sales, finance, etc
-This is also important to understand infrastructure underpinning business
divisions like corporate and retail

This single, automated view of the IT estate provides a business context to your
infrastructure environment and provides actionable intelligence that takes the
cost and risk out of data center migration, consolidation and virtualization
projects:
-you have clarity in terms of the effect on your business of an IT project.

Effect of turning a switch on rest of environment

How – 1st point of call is the dashboard
Breakdown of your estate
-How many servers
-Groups of servers
-Virtualization
-Look at by vendor, life, etc.

Like a website, drill-down

Proactively find were to make efficiencies
More and more pressure on IT to be ‘green’
- Ethically
- Cost-wise
Easily analyse s/w by vendor, utilization, version, etc.
Manage s/w risk with EOL reports

quickly understand what actions need to be taken

Compliance

JP Morgan uses BMC ADDM in this way

Provenance
The source of all data within ADDM is fully traceable. The Provenance button on
each configuration item in the ADDM UI allows the user to trace the source of
each attribute.
This example shows an Oracle dataserver instance. In licensing projects it is
important to be able to demonstrate and confirm why the data is correct and
should be trusted.
Here we are showing an instance of Oracle at version 9.2. How can we prove
this? Because Provenance shows us we ran a discover command to obtain this
data.
At the bottom right we can see the command that was executed, the output of the
command, and the timestamp when that happened. This is Indisputable
evidence why this data can be trusted.
Provenance is available for all data within the ADDM data model.
Hopefully I’ve captured your attention with the notion that we can help you
radically cut data center costs – in less than 90 days – by reducing hardware and
software spend as well as automating what is currently a costly manual function.
Applying our solution takes guesswork out of decision making, reducing risk and
helping you manage change better. You may be already thinking where this could
help in your company.

If you’re asking yourself, “Okay, so Why BMC ADDM?” The answer is simple:

First - We deliver the fastest ROI for IT discovery in the industry – and we have
demonstrated this time and time again in client engagements.
We’re confident we can deliver value for you in as little as one month – but
without question within a 90-day window.
-Agree deliverable
-Fixed time
-We take risk, demonstrates our confidence

Last – with ADDM, you get unparalleled confidence in the data.

In summary ADDM’s abilities mean we are able to add value in a wide variety of
ways

We have done this for diverse companies who are gaining competitive advantage

We work with the biggest companies in the IT world & key partners

4 main project types:

1) Data Center Migration
Ensure zero-downtime planning process

2) Virtualization
Identify candidate servers for virtualization

3) Consolidation
Consolidate underutilized servers and software

4) Standardization
Reduce the variance in the IT environment
Any questions?
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