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THE JOURNEY TO THE CLOUD STARTS NOW
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IT PRODUCTION
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PHASE TWO:
BUSINESS PRODUCTION
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PHASE THREE:
IT AS A SERVICE (ITaaS)
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CONGRATULATIONS! YOU'RE GETTING STARTED.
Now we can show you a simpler way to lower costs and optimize efficiency by virtualizing IT applications.
NICE WORK. YOU'VE ALREADY VIRTUALIZED SOME ENVIRONMENTS.
Now learn how to improve service quality with mission critical applications in the cloud.
IMPRESSIVE. YOU'VE FULLY VIRTUALIZED A SHARED POOL OF RESOURCES FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS.
Now we can show you how to increase agility with automated, policy-driven "IT as a Service."
When you virtualize IT-owned applications, your infrastructure becomes simpler and more efficient.
Simple: EMC brings you the broadest VMware integration in the industry, across your environment.
- You'll have a complete view of your storage with vCenter, plus built-in self service features and space optimized for VM clones.
- You'll complete common storage tasks faster with 90% fewer clicks.
Efficient: EMC's Unified Storage is 25% more efficient. Guaranteed.
- Your space saving starts at 25% out of the box, because EMC uses less raw space for I/O subsystem overhead.
- You'll reduce storage capacity further—by up to 50%—with virtual provisioning and block compression.
Simplicity is free.
EMC: #1 Choice for Virtualization.
Bringing mission-critical applications into the private cloud means higher availability, scalability, service quality.
Availability: EMC is #1 in availability.
- With EMC, you will eliminate planned downtime in the cloud. You can migrate information and shift resources to optimize workloads—even across data centers.
Scalability: In the cloud, your application speeds will double, and you'll scale from gigabytes to exabytes as your business expands.
- Your performance will soar as you grow with EMC's fully automated storage tiering
- Automated policies make IT management simple, and you will spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks.
Service Quality: Bullet-proof business continuity, with cloud-optimized choices, gives you consistent deduplication, backup, replication, and snapshots.
- Your infrastructure is protected by the only fully integrated RSA security platform for VMware.
- EMC has experts—including more than 2,000 VMware-certified professionals—to speed your Journey to the Cloud.
- Your business applications can move to the cloud in full compliance with regulatory and policy mandates.
Build an automated self-service portal designed for charge-back delivery.
Policy Driven and Automated: EMC has the most complete portfolio for IT teams and service providers to deliver infrastructure as a service.
- You'll provide end-to-end policy based management and flexibility for varying application owner requirements.
- You'll monitor protection and meter usage to achieve greater cost transparency—even charge users for services delivered—automatically.
Dynamic and Transparent: Only EMC enables you to federate workloads between private and public clouds located anywhere in the world, aggregating all your storage assets into a single pool.
- Your information is safe, with a complete chain of trust, ensuring security and confidence.
- You will give your IT service consumers—app owners, the business, and IT itself—complete visibility into their costs and utilization.
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