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Software Defined Data Center

The Next Evolution of Business

and IT

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About Deluxe

HQ in Shoreview, MN

Largest Check Printer in US

6,000 employees across the US

4.5 million small business customers

Largest provider of marketing and other

services to small business

100th Anniversary in 2015!

$1.6 billion in annual revenue, market cap

$2.75 billion

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Agenda

3rd Wave, Platform, Etc.

Disruption Everywhere

Everything as a Service

Software to the rescue

Data Center Strategies

What can you do?

Bring it all home

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The 3rd Platform

1st was the mainframe

2nd was client server

3rd is “the cloud”

Some will argue the cloud is different

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Disruption Happens

“No one is entitled to their business

model…”

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Big Distruption

Imagine the disruption cars that drive

themselves will create…

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Software is Eating the World…

…on a steady diet of data

…generated by the “Internet of Things”

Sensors EVERYWHERE

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We’ve Only Just Begun…

Hands and feet inside the car, this ride

is taking off…

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One Definition of a Cloud

Shared infrastructure

Virtualized

Orchestration layer

Automated processes

Service Catalog

Self-Service Portal

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Would You Build a Data Center?

or

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But I Have One of These…

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Optimize That Data Center!

Software is defining everything!

What was once manual can now be

automated…

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Server Virtualization Led the Way

WMware started it all, well actually

mainframes did.

Started the consolidation wave in the early

‘00’s

Evolved into Software Defined Servers

a.k.a. “Compute”

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Software Can Define Anything!

Storage was next…2008

Networks are the latest craze…2012

Application “containers” are coming

quickly…2014/2015

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A New Discipline…

All this software defining has exposed real

costs of providing IT services.

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Think Two Modes

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“But I Need Cost Takeout Now!”

Review current processes, tighten where

possible

Automation and orchestration can help

Pick simple use cases first, like VM

provisioning

Layer on more complex services later

Be ready to deal with IT team disruption

Cost savings can be 20% to 40%

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Future Plans

Strategy starts with involving the business

Look at a bimodal architecture

Build a roadmap, 3 year plan is good

Understand your costs and where you can

optimize, TCO, ROI

Tie your budget priorities to the roadmap

2015 is a great time to start, any later and

you’re playing catch up

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Mind the Gap

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Wrap Up

Embrace change, it’s a good thing!

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Contact Info

Brad Skeel

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

brad.skeel@deluxe.com

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