1. Virtual Data Center LAN
This customer presentation to be read in conjunction with the over arching DDC collateral
Virtual Data Center LAN
Part of the Atos Digital Data Center

2. Atos DDC Service - Documentation Structure (THIS SLIDE TO APPEARS IN EVERY CORE DDC COMPONENT SERVICE PRESENTATION & DOCUMENT )
The Atos DDC service offering to customers is made up of the DDC common service and the DDC component services.
The Digital DC Common Service describes the set of DDC service modules and activities that are provided to each customer, regardless of the options the customer selects from the DDC common or DDC component services.
The Core DDC Component Services are all required for Atos to provide a fully functioning DDC Service to the customer. They are not sold individually or as stand-alone components. The customer may enhance the DDC service features by selecting optional modules from the Core DDC Component Services.

3. Agenda
Overview
The Situation
The Services
Benefits
Experience

4. Virtual Data Center LAN Overview
The Situation
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Overview
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Our Virtual Data Center LAN offering …
helps to overcome traditional data center network drawbacks
leverages state-of-the art Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies to provide a flexible, reliable and cost effective data center network infrastructure
covers full life-cycle from planning through to operational support
is part of a suite of services making up Atos Digital Data Center (DDC) Services. Each customer receives their own dedicated DDC environment.

5. Virtual Data Center LAN The Situation
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The traditional data center network approach is to physically implement an individual networking solution for each customer with networking layers built, configured and supported separately
This rather static network configuration has some major drawbacks:
Necessary modifications to an existing network configuration require a number of ‘manual’ or ‘semi-automatic’ adjustments in different layers of the network, e.g. switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, QoS, ACL, VLAN
Those adjustments are complex, time consuming, and error-prone, all of which leading to increased operational costs
Moreover, specialized and/or proprietary networking hardware result in increased capital expenditure
All in all, our customers’ IT departments are struggling to keep up with business demand, such as
Business Continuity
Agility / Flexibility
Profitability

6. Virtual Data Center LAN The Situation
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Software Defined Networking is a new disruptive technology offering relief for traditional network shortcomings
SDN will impact campus networks shortly after having matured in the data center environment
In SDN architecture the Control Plane is centralized and decoupled from the forwarding Data Plane
The Data Plane consists of plain, commodity network devices that are used purely for IP packet forwarding
The network’s intelligence is raised to the software-based Control Plane providing a logical view of the overall network and instructs the Data Plane via the Control Interface where to forward the data
Through its software-based nature the Control Plane is capable of emulating Layer 2 to Layer 7 network services (e.g. switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing, QoS, ACL, VLAN). The characteristics of these network services are fully programmable and thus easy and dynamically to administer via a centralized management interface. With SDN many operational tasks can even be fully automated
Time and effort for deployment or reconfiguration of a network in such a software-driven environment is reduced significantly

7. Virtual Data Center LAN The Services
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With Virtual Data Center LAN Atos is one of the first players in the market to adopt state-of-the-art Software Defined Networking technologies as part of a complete set of Digital Data Center Services
Virtualization principles, already known in the Software-Defined Compute environments, are applied to create virtual networks
These virtual networks are decoupled and independent of the underlying IP network hardware and allow IT to treat the physical network as a pool of transport capacity that can be consumed and repurposed on demand
Unlike legacy architectures, virtual networks can be provisioned, changed, stored, deleted and restored programmatically without reconfiguring the underlying physical hardware or topology
Source: VMware, 2013

8. Virtual Data Center LAN The Services
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Virtual Network – Logical View:
With network virtualization, the functional equivalent of a “network hypervisor” reproduces the complete set of Layer 2 to Layer 7 networking services in software
Virtual Network – Physical View:
The physical network is purely used as an IP backplane with no active Layer 2 to Layer 7 networking services
Source: VMware, 2013

9. Virtual Data Center LAN The Services
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Virtual Data Center LAN is an ‘internal’ service and as such embedded in the Digital Data Center set of services
It comprises both virtualization technology as well as the physical network connectivity
Connection to core data center networks and basic load balancing is included in the standard service
Advanced load balancing and connection to legacy networks are available as an option
Our offering covers planning, provisioning, implementation, configuration, management, operation, maintenance, monitoring, and reporting

10. Virtual Data Center LAN Benefits
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Virtual Data Center LAN services provide some significant benefits over traditional data center network services such as:
Improved overall data center agility through reduced deployment times from weeks to days and reduced change handling times from days to hours
High reliability and availability through continuous operation and failure containment technologies
Reduction of costs through savings in CAPEX (less hardware; commodity switches) and OPEX (fewer items to manage in less time)

11. Atos Credentials ‘Leader’ in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for DC Outsourcing 2014, Europe
Overview
The Situation
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Atos is the leading European IT services company and has one of the largest managed Data Center capabilities in Europe and operates DC’s across the globe. 
Market recognition
For the third year in a row Atos is positioned as a ‘Leader’ in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services 2014, Europe
Gartner positioned Atos as a ‘Visionary’ in its Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing 2014, Asia/Pacific.
Gartner positioned Atos as a ‘Challenger’ in its Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services 2014, North America
Positioned by IDC as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: “Worldwide Managed Security Services 2014 Vendor Assessment”
Atos provides network services to leading players and has considerable experience in delivering data center network services
Global footprint
Network & Communications
1,700,000 Ethernet ports
700,000 supported web conferencing users
55,325 managed switches
9,160 managed routers
Managed Infrastructure Solutions
75+ multi-customer data centers
170,000 managed servers
118,000 installed MIPS
240,700 TB storage
Cyber Security
1 million protected endpoints and desktops
7.5 billion monitored events per month
3,500 complex data center firewalls
500,000 digital identities for one single client
Project Services
10 years of Data Center transformation expertise
delivering over 800 Data Center projects globally
more than 100 transformation projects a year

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