Application-Centric Approach to Data Centre and Cloud

Dave Robbins

November 2014

Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processors

Value of a

Network

V≈ 𝐴 𝑁 𝑁−1𝑁

𝐴 = 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠

IT Craftsmanship

Functional, operationally focused

IT Industrialisation

Control, predictable, risk

reduction

Digitalisation

Speed, innovation FAST IT

DIGITAL DRAGON?

Source Gartner Source IDC

Over the next decade,

the number of servers

(virtual and physical) worldwide

will grow by

10 times.

Meanwhile, the number of IT

professionals in

the world will grow by

less than 1.5 times.

The amount of information

managed by enterprise

datacenters will grow by

14 times.

Server workloads to go to

70% Virtual & will coexist with

Physical

Hybrid Cloud Services are

evolving rapidly Evaluate based on

need, price, value and viability

Prepare for

organisational disruptions

Externally and internally

Generated

SW Defined networks are

coming – begin updating skills

NOW

By 2017

50% of I&O teams will be

eliminated or have

major budget reductions

Source Gartner Source IDC

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The Application Economy

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BIG

[USEFUL]

DATA

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Methodologies

are Evolving

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

The Agile Manifesto

Kent Beck Mike Beedle

Arie van Bennekum Alistair Cockburn

Ward Cunningham Martin Fowler

James Grenning Jim Highsmith Andrew Hunt Ron Jeffries

Jon Kern Brian Marick

Robert C. Martin Steve Mellor

Ken Schwaber Jeff Sutherland Dave Thomas

Development Operations

DevOps

QA / Testing / Security

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DIGITAL & AGILE

MISSION CRITICAL OR

Reduce Work-in-Progress

Busy/Available = Utilisation Utilisation inversely related to speed and efficiency! – least available resource

かんばん (Kanban)

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INFRASTRUCTURE

App Tier

DB Tier

Web Tier

DB Tier

Web Tier

Web Tier

Web Tier

APPLICATIONS

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INFRASTRUCTURE MATTERS

Secure Smart

Simple

FAST IT

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Cisco Unified Computing System

Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processors

UCS Mini UCS M-Series

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NEXT GENERATION

OPEN MODEL

1st Gen SDN

DATA CENTRE MODEL

TRADITIONAL

NETWORK MODEL

Software-Based Network Virtualisation

Network of Boxes Physical + Virtual Open

Policy Driven

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Nexus 9000/ACI APIC Open ACI Ecosystem

900+ Customers… 160 Customers in 90 Days! 33

Ecosystem Partners and Counting!

• Rapid Channel Partner Scale

• Platform for next generation IT

APIC

APPLICATION

COMPUTE NETWORK

CLOUD

STORAGE SECURITY

ACI Momentum

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ACI Fabric

App DB Web

Outside Security

Availability

Compliance

Service

Load Balance

Security

Application Policy Infrastructure Controller

APIC

Performance

ACI Policy

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Enterprise Private Clouds

Public Clouds

Partner Clouds

Cloud Services and Applications

HCS

Microsoft Suite aaS

DRaaS

PaaS

IaaS

Meraki

Security

Analytics

vDesktop aaS

WebEx

HANA aaS

Energy Management

Collaboration and Video

Data and Analytics Native Cloud

Applications

Enterprise Workloads

The Intercloud Global Platform

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