To: Scott Schmitz
From: Nikita Patel
CC/BCC: IT team, FINC team, Mark Anderson
Date: June 9, 2014
Subject: Business impact of Ubuntu - Memorandum
The various benefits noticed are comprehensive software updates leading to a more secured environment, an integrated application store where all the application are free of charge, customization, support of multiple workload that lets the user run up to four different desktops thereby reducing the number of servers from 200 to 60 (a 70% savings), & ultimately see a dramatic hardware, space and energy saving of approx $1000 per year per server. Currently we have 20000 employees having Windows 7 & the older versions. Upgrading to Windows 8 will cost $150 per employee after receiving company discount which will cost to the company a total of $ 3 million, whereas implementing Ubuntu OS is free of charge which gives a direct cost savings of $ 3 million on installation itself.
While reviewing the companies migrating to Ubuntu, one of our competitor in the financial services industry has publicly cited the positive impact they have incurred by moving on to the virtual world. The firm was running its proprietary trading software on 400 Windows-based servers, we run a similar proprietary trading software at our firm too. After experiencing a series of performance issues, they decided to upgrade to Ubuntu. Currently the firm can run its entire workload on just 120 Ubuntu-based servers, which equates to a dramatic hardware, space and power saving of 70 per cent for the same performance. Additionally, the competitor has experienced significant reduction in systems management overheads, running its critical common workloads and its trading system with a minimum outage & maintenance. They are seeing a real reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of its IT infrastructure through switching its servers to Ubuntu.
As per the various benefits mentioned, we can initially plan that the traders keep their familiar Windows desktop and tools, while half of the company’s software development team runs Ubuntu, and half run Windows thereby not disrupting the daily operational processes. Once the employees are used to working in the virtual world, we can move to Ubuntu as our OS. We are now witnesses of an important shift in the IT industry & definitely such new technologies are having a huge impact on the economy and our lifestyles. Open sources related business models will widely replace the old fashioned, proprietary business models in the coming years saving millions of dollars for the corporate world.
If you have any further questions regarding migration to Ubuntu, I am available to speak with you in person on Tuesday at a convenient time.
From: Nikita Patel
CC/BCC: IT team, FINC team, Mark Anderson
Date: June 9, 2014
Subject: Business impact of Ubuntu - Memorandum
Scott,
It seems that the existing
infrastructure based on Windows is not delivering the efficiency that our
business demands due to which we are facing network performance issues. As per our discussion last week, the next step we plan was to examine if
implementing an open source ‘Ubuntu Operating system (OS)’ can be an
alternative to upgrading to ‘Windows 8 OS’. Being
into financial service industry, we must ensure that our business-critical
processes run without interruption as with real money at stake, completing and
recording trade agreements is central to our firm’s success & hence we need to
make sure that the IT infrastructure can support its day-to-day processes as
efficiently as possible. Our company’s IT team is responsible for maintaining
and managing 200 servers which is becoming a time-consuming process that needs
an IT administrator to perform frequent manual system upgrades. I conducted a brief examination of Ubuntu along with our
technology team & different business division heads & as per our analyses we definitely see
positive advantages of implementing Ubuntu OS. The initial reaction in the
meets was if it would require training as all the employees are accustomed to
the Windows environment. However while comparing Windows 8’s modern interface
which poses a challenge for users to go through a significant learning curve,
whereas on the other hand using Ubuntu OS felt lot more similar to the Windows
older versions alleviating the training issue raised by most of us.
The various benefits noticed are comprehensive software updates leading to a more secured environment, an integrated application store where all the application are free of charge, customization, support of multiple workload that lets the user run up to four different desktops thereby reducing the number of servers from 200 to 60 (a 70% savings), & ultimately see a dramatic hardware, space and energy saving of approx $1000 per year per server. Currently we have 20000 employees having Windows 7 & the older versions. Upgrading to Windows 8 will cost $150 per employee after receiving company discount which will cost to the company a total of $ 3 million, whereas implementing Ubuntu OS is free of charge which gives a direct cost savings of $ 3 million on installation itself.
While reviewing the companies migrating to Ubuntu, one of our competitor in the financial services industry has publicly cited the positive impact they have incurred by moving on to the virtual world. The firm was running its proprietary trading software on 400 Windows-based servers, we run a similar proprietary trading software at our firm too. After experiencing a series of performance issues, they decided to upgrade to Ubuntu. Currently the firm can run its entire workload on just 120 Ubuntu-based servers, which equates to a dramatic hardware, space and power saving of 70 per cent for the same performance. Additionally, the competitor has experienced significant reduction in systems management overheads, running its critical common workloads and its trading system with a minimum outage & maintenance. They are seeing a real reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of its IT infrastructure through switching its servers to Ubuntu.
As per the various benefits mentioned, we can initially plan that the traders keep their familiar Windows desktop and tools, while half of the company’s software development team runs Ubuntu, and half run Windows thereby not disrupting the daily operational processes. Once the employees are used to working in the virtual world, we can move to Ubuntu as our OS. We are now witnesses of an important shift in the IT industry & definitely such new technologies are having a huge impact on the economy and our lifestyles. Open sources related business models will widely replace the old fashioned, proprietary business models in the coming years saving millions of dollars for the corporate world.
If you have any further questions regarding migration to Ubuntu, I am available to speak with you in person on Tuesday at a convenient time.
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