Sensible business IT

Baselining, monitoring, measuring and advising of IT costs

and impact son the business

Clive Longbottom,
Service Director, Quocirca Ltd
Risk/Cost analysis - Now

Cost

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

Risk/Cost analysis – the future?

Cost

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The dynamic business

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The dynamic business

Future INVESTMENT focus

Current COST focus

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The dynamic business

Risk

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The dynamic business

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The evolution of the data centre

Large Remote or small

partner partners, clouds and
other service providers

Dedicated
links
Shared private Main public
cloud
cloud services

Hybrid
cloud

Main private
Central Organisation cloud services
(Standard data centre/Internal
Shared commercial
private cloud)
private cloud
© 2010 Quocirca Ltd
The CIO’s dilemma

How much
does it cost
now?

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The CIO’s dilemma

How much
does it cost How can I
now? apportion
cost?

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The CIO’s dilemma

How much
does it cost How can I
now?can I predict apportion
How
cost?
what will happen
due to a change?

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The CIO’s dilemma

How much
does it cost How can I
now?can I predict apportion
How
cost?
what will happen What should I
due to a change? be running
where?

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The CIO’s dilemma

How much
does it cost How can I
now? apportion
How can I predict
cost?
what will happen What should I
due to a change? be running
How will any
where?
change impact
the existing IT
environment?

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The CIO’s dilemma

How much
does it cost How can I
now? apportion
How can I predict
cost?
what will happen What should I
due to a change? be running
How will anyHow will any
where?
change impactchange impact
the existingthe
IT business?
environment?

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The CIO’s dilemma

How much
does it cost How can I
now? apportion
How can I predict
cost?
what will happen What should I
due to a change? be running
How will anyHow will any
where?
change impactchange impact
What
the existing ITimpact will
the business?
changes have on
environment?
my PUE and
CRC?

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

The CIO’s dilemma

How much
does it cost How can I
now? apportion
How can I predict
cost?
what will happen What should I
due to a change? be running
How will anyHow will any
where?
change impact change impact
the What
Tooexisting
many of impact will
ITmy
the business?
changes
IT projects
environment? have have on
my PUE
not delivered on and
promise CRC?

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

How we got here

Business reporting

Linear
predictives
Best of breed

Frameworks
Spreadsheets

Best ©guess
2010 Quocirca Ltd
The BIG problem

• End to end costs

• Business accountability

• The cross charging issue

• PUE/CRC measurements

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

What’s needed

• Modelling the “now”

• Predicting future states

• Understand the process end-to-end

• Advising the business

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

What makes an optimised data centre?

• Full flexibility across the entire

estate

• Ability to move workloads around

rapidly and effectively

• Ability to predict future states and

technology and business impacts

• Ability to report in a manner the

business can understand – and
respond to

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

Opportunities

– Capability to advise the business on

options – not dictate on approach

– Capability to understand and match

business risk profile

– Capability to respond to market

changes as well as technical changes

© 2010 Quocirca Ltd

End game

From Big Technology To Business in control

Effective, non-linear predictives
are the only way to create the dynamic
ITplatform for the business
© 2010 Quocirca Ltd