Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Deliverables for 2008

Alternate Compute - EJ

VDI & Citrix Cost Reduction Programme

Reduce the costs of the VDI service.

Deliverables

1) Storage Efficiency - Validated NAS business case – End of May

2) VMware Server platform review – End of May.

3) Upgrade/Migration to Vi3.5

- Review average user per server density on 2.5.3 vs. Vi3. keep pressure on ITI to start delivering the Vi3.5 migration.

4) Citrix Cost reduction programme business case.

- business case for the reduction of the citrix server farm through the introduction of the 64bit OS, and environment management

Support of Ops IT Offshoring Program

Improve performance for end-users by analysing and advising on the correct choice of VDI services or Citrix. Cost reduction through migration from VM to Citrix.

Deliverables

1) ESS IT’s ‘Offshoring Application hotlist’ Project

- TLM Migration Project – identification of any VMs which can be released and drive for closure.

- OWX Migration Project – identification of any VMs which can be released and drive for closure.

- Oasis – identification of any VMs which can be released and drive for closure.

2) De-Concentration Risk Project

- Ongoing support of ITI delivery of capacity to Stamford DC

VM Demand for IB

Gather forecast requirements on behalf of IB, compile a capacity demand review and identify any bottlenecks which may prevent the IB delivering on it’s offshoring objectives

Deliverables

1) Q3 Forecast – (Complete)

2) Communications to Streams -

- definition of ‘demand vs capacity’ (note should be ITI led)

- Stakeholder communications (note should also be ITI led)

Roadmap and Analysis

o Publish an appropriately formatted technology reviews & recommendations roadmap

o What significant technologies are going to land, when should UBS business streams consider adopt them, when is ITI looking at them.

o VDI roadmap

o Application virtualization roadmap

IB BCM

Deliverable - As close to a free BCM solution as possible!

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