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How NTT Ltd. is helping CIO/VPs and CFOs achieve business continuity, compliance, and security with the delivery of business-critical applications in the hybrid cloud
NTT Ltd. is an integral part of the global growth story of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) – one of the largest telcos and ICT companies in the world. In the Americas, NTT Ltd. employs more than 7,500 people 04
in a diverse and dynamic workplace. As part of a larger global organization, they have a footprint that spans 57 countries while delivering services in over 200 countries and regions. “Being the number three data center provider with one of the largest networks in the world, and providing over 50% of global internet traffic, puts us in a unique position to provide our clients with an unparalleled solution set of infrastructure, network, and security allied to application expertise,” explains Kirk Compton, Vice President Cloud & Enterprise Application Managed Services, Sales, Americas, NTT Ltd. “Being a global SAP and Oracle partner, allows us to provide full-stack services for our clients connected globally with all of our low latency networks from marine cables linking Asia to the US market.”
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Discover a better way to interact with your data through storage that’s modern, easy to manage and offers flexible ways to consume Pure Storage is driving the simplicity and disruption of access to storage. Futureproofing its capabilities of simplicity, performance and ease of use allows users to be ready for the next generation of technology consumption in the cloud. “Companies are accelerating their digital transformation journeys, but lack the skills to achieve the best outcome,” warns Jack Hogan, Pure’s Vice President of Technology Strategy. “NTT is where that expertise is; they can help companies get to those faster outcomes by leveraging solutions like Pure Storage where we’re seeing shutdowns around the world. A partner like NTT is critical to both provide the venue and the expertise to accelerate transformation, and allow companies the ability to be flexible in these challenging times.” Pure offers a utility consumption model, supported by its partnership with NTT, to deliver services and solutions to joint customers focused on driving better outcomes rather than just selling products says Hogan. “Underpinning everything we do is an all-flash technology layer that allows us to achieve sub-millisecond level response times to better manage ERP workloads down from hours to minutes.”
A Modern Data Experience In today’s world, data is the new fuel, the growth engine. However, being able to effectively access and leverage insights from that data is one of the biggest challenges companies now face. “At Pure we’re focused on creating a modern data experience,” reveals Hogan. “As much as 75% of a company’s data is never unutilized, so it’s vital to get a centralized view. Our suite of solutions and services extends both to the on-premise data centre and all the way to the edge via the cloud, offering a centralized storage platform and storage plane.” Pure & Simple The Purity operating system operates across all of Pure’s platforms which are controlled via SaaS with Pure1. “Companies can see where their data is in all venues; whether different tiers of storage in an individual data center, or across different data centers, or even across different clouds,” pledges Hogan. “Pure is creating that interconnected tissue of how those different data points can come together as one central data hub.”
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“ One of the biggest issues in the market today is data latency. We start at ground level making sure your network is secure and your data is not disrupted.” — Kirk Compton, Vice President Cloud & Enterprise Application Managed Services, Sales, Americas, NTT Ltd.
Client Centricity Compton credits the successful disruption of companies like Uber for ushering in a business climate where if you’re not digitally transforming you could get left behind. “We’ve had to adjust how we support our clients so we can help them with their design of the future,” he responds, noting that NTT’s clients today are looking for more than servers, storage and network capacity. “Our clients want business outcomes. They’re looking for ways to be nimble, and really execute against their
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digital transformation strategies… Whether it’s growth within the US market, growth globally, or being able to interact with a more client-centric offering shifting from what used to be B2B2C to a more B2C approach as supply chains are disrupted.” Banking, retail and manufacturing, to name just a few, are all sectors responding to, and ripe for, disruption following the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Compton believes this very pressure is expediting the kind of business transformations a purpose-led organisation like NTT excels at. “In current circumstances, it’s a more powerful change than ever, being able to manage your workforce, whether it’s working from home or managing them
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5G & IOT Over the last four years, NTT has been in joint venture with Dell Technologies for the city of Las Vegas looking at 5G and IoT solutions for Smart Cities and remains at the forefront of these technologies through its Japanese market leading mobile operator DoCoMo. “What we’re starting to look at with 5G is how to bring siloed data platforms together. How are cities utilizing all of the data that’s available to them to be
able to help first responders; to help with city services, provide data to city planners for smart building initiatives and to other organisations that need data to help their citizens? A lot of our work has been around artificial intelligence and machine learning. They become successful when IoT and 5G and other technologies are aligned to the extent that they can provide data at the right time to the right people to make the right decisions.”
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safely in a manufacturing facility,” he says.
application workloads are structured –
“In supporting those points of contact
whether they’re on premise, inside their
we’ve become the number one cyber-
four walls, co-located in another data
security company in the world capable of
center, or if they’re using Software-as-
adapting to meet our clients’ needs.”
a-Service applications (SaaS) – the data is spread across a multitude of
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networks along with the users,” he
The fundamental elements of connectivity
the market today is data latency. We
are network and security Compton says.
start at ground level making sure your
“At every organization, the way their
network is secure and your data is not
notes. “One of the biggest issues in
Executive Profile:
Kirk Compton Title: VP Cloud & Enterprise Application Managed Services, Sales, Americas, NTT Ltd. Industry: Information Technology & Services
Kirk Compton has a proven track record of continued success in delivering growth in global and regional leadership roles. A market leader in client focused solution development, delivery and management, Compton drives enterprise growth by aligning corporate strategy ahead of market conditions and ever-changing technology solutions. He has held expansive roles at NTT Ltd. providing global, regional, and vertical leadership across multiple technology platforms – including ERP, hyperscalers, private cloud and most recently Smart Solutions.
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“ What we’re starting to look at with 5G is how to bring siloed data platforms together. How are cities utilizing all of the data that’s available to them to be able to help first responders; to help with city services, provide data to city planners for smart building initiatives and to other organizations that need data to help their citizens?” — Kirk Compton, Vice President Cloud & Enterprise Application Managed Services, Sales, Americas, NTT Ltd.
disrupted. SaaS is a great opportunity for most organizations to transform, but being able to utilize data effectively and make sure our clients are performing at an optimal level really starts at the data center and the network.” To deliver this continuity, NTT has experts on hand across the Americas working to the highest-level certifications across multiple verticals “whether it be Federal government, PCI or HIPAA” to guarantee a reliable infrastructure for its clients.
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No other SAP global partner offers Cisco’s breadth of innovations designed to power SAP environments. Cisco SAP portfolio includes: Cisco UCS and HyperFlex integrates compute, storage, and network for cloud-like flexibility. Cisco Tetration offers comprehensive workloadprotection capability across multicloud Cisco Intersight cloud-based manager simplifies SAP environments, making them more efficient. Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (CWOM) scales resources up or down assuring workload performance. AppDynamics® SAP Monitoring Agent provides ABAP level visibility to diagnose root-cause failure and overall application performance Thousand Eyes offers a 360-degree view of your hybrid SAP deployment across cloud, SaaS, and the Internet to SAP end-users
Cisco: The leading global partner for SAP innovation Cisco offers the broadest portfolio of solutions designed to modernise on-premise and hybrid cloud SAP landscapes. SAP is the critical operational backbone of most enterprises and often their largest IT investment. Enterprise line of business managers demand agility to meet evolving customer requirements without compromising on security or reliability. How do SAP enterprises protect that investment while modernising their infrastructure without disrupting established business processes? Cisco’s tried and tested suite of SAP solutions can add new functionality to existing investments and improve performance while reducing TCO with an end-to-end modernisation approach.
Compute, Network & Software “We have the complete portfolio for SAP customers so they don’t have to deal with multiple vendors,” assures Cisco’s Saroj Mohapatra. “Cisco takes investment protection very seriously. From the beginning, our solutions have been built to provide excellent value with scalability and agility. Cisco’s flexibility allows customers to start small and incrementally grow their suite of solutions, investing only when they need to with an approach that saves on CapEx and reduces OpEx.” Cisco modernises SAP HANA and SAP legacy ERP application environments with solutions for
on-premise and multi-cloud platforms offering unified management and monitoring, multi-layered data protection, cybersecurity and policy-based automation. “Compared to our competitors we shine because we look after the network for you; resolving any issues with latency to guarantee the response time needed for best practice with SAP, both today and in the future as customers migrate to HANA,” adds Mohapatra. Cisco is also working closely with SAP to leverage the power of AI and IoT. Elsewhere, recent acquisitions, such as AppDynamics, work seamlessly with existing solutions to detect performance issues with mission critical applications like SAP. ThousandEyes, another addition to the Cisco arsenal, offers SaaS flexibility to enhance Cisco’s network performance and monitoring capabilities across the enterprise and into the cloud. Together, NTT, with its SAP consulting expertise, and Cisco deliver a modern and resilient solution to identify SAP customers’ needs to fuel success with competitive value.
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“ As hybrid cloud and digital transformation become a top priority for companies, we’ve got the automation and the capabilities to help them really drive growth and transformation.”
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— Kirk Compton, Vice President Cloud & Enterprise Application Managed Services, Sales, Americas, NTT Ltd.
data centers,” reveals Compton. “This creates a unique opportunity for us to provide our clients with a dedicated private environment in the same data center where we’re providing hyperscaled services.” Compton explains that being able to cross connect the environments inside the same facilities provides an optimal performance platform where digital latency is significantly reduced. “Having this network acumen and expertise really puts us in the forefront of hybrid cloud,” he adds. “We can bring all of our other services – whether it be application workload, security, wide area
Hybrid Cloud
network or network-as-a-service – in a
“Traditionally, you had to buy the infra-
combination that’s unique in the market
structure to be able to grow your data
via a platform our clients can trust.”
platforms,” remembers Compton. “And now you can get those on demand.
Partnering for Success
When we look at hybrid cloud… we’re
A key component in NTT’s global
a data center company. We’ve got pri-
success and building that trust over
vate clouds for our clients, but we also
the past 23 years has been the com-
support the hyperscalers.”
pany’s alliance with Cisco. “We have
NTT recently announced a strategic
enjoyed an extensive partnership over
relationship with Microsoft with the
the years,” confirms Compton. “What’s
company moving much of its internal
been really exciting is how we’ve
workloads to the Azure cloud. “As part
grown together. My experience with
of that agreement, Azure is inside our
Cisco began when we were building
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our cloud platforms for SAP workloads. They helped us design and build the cloud infrastructure for our Africa and Asia operations. And then as the market matured, and the shift in digital transformation occurred, Cisco has been a great partner in regards to how they build their networking services, and
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how we’ve been able to leverage their IoT capabilities.” Cisco’s solutions, including recent acquisitions AppDynamics and ThousandEyes, are helping NTT
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2021 and beyond…
perspective with their networking capa-
NTT remains focused on maintain-
bilities and monitoring prowess. “With
ing secure networks and giving its
our stack we provide the network and
clients the ability to scale to support
security around Cisco’s UCS (Unified
increased demand. While organiza-
Computing System) infrastructure which,
tions look to meet the challenges of
in tandem with offerings from the likes
the ‘new normal’ triggered by a global
of Pure Storage and Cohesity, creates a
pandemic leaving millions working
unique opportunity where we can really
from home, NTT are on hand to deliver
drive a lot of these solutions together
the right collaboration tools to allow
paired with ERP applications to realize
them to thrive. Looking beyond to a
the outcomes our clients are looking for,”
post-COVID world, the company is
assures Compton.
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20 IOWN “We’re working on a new network called IOWN (Innovative Optical & Wireless Network) that is going to be very powerful in the industry,” reveals Kirk Compton, Vice President Cloud & Enterprise Application Managed Services, Sales, Americas for NTT Ltd. in the Americas. “It’s an initiative for networks and information processing infrastructure that can provide high-speed, highcapacity communication utilizing innovative technology focused on
optics, as well as tremendous computational resources. With IOWN we’ve got platform services that now connect multiple clouds together and allow you to manage the network, as well as the security across those cloud platforms. When we start looking at our clients’ needs, but again more importantly, how the industry is trending, having that connectivity and creation across platforms becomes crucial.”
to migrate its clients to the new S/4 HANA solutions. “As hybrid cloud and digital transformation become a top priority for companies, we’ve got the automation and the capabilities to help them really drive growth and transform,” pledges Compton. “We’ve been developing the security and migration automation tools for our clients. I think we’re at a time of transition where the maturity in the market – and the way Cisco has matured through application performance – allows us to bring a full solution; it’s the client journey we’re focused on. Infrastructure isn’t the critical question now, it’s how your applications perform, how your revenue strategies are grow-
“ With IOWN we’ve got platform services that now connect multiple clouds together and allow you to manage the network, as well as the security across those cloud platforms.”
ing and how you’re transforming your own organization. We’re now in a unique position to be able to drive all that for our clients and execute like never before.”
— Kirk Compton, Vice President Cloud & Enterprise Application Managed Services, Sales, Americas, NTT Ltd.
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