Hyperconvergence and Death of the Storage Array - Interop 2015

Hyperconvergence and Death of the Storage Array

Stu Miniman, Wikibon Senior Analyst Interop Las Vegas 2015

[email protected] @stu

…OF THE TRADITIONAL

STORAGE ARRAY IS COMING

…NOT OF STORAGE, …NOT OF

STORAGE PEOPLE 2

Today’s Premise

•  Why this isn’t hype-converged •  Is “IT simplicity” an oxymoron? •  Where are we on the journey?

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Quick Discussion of Terminology

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Server SAN

hFp://wikibon.org/Server_SAN 5

SOLUTIONS (typically 100s apps)

HYPER-‐OPTIMIZED (limited # apps)

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Technology Pendulum Swings •  Aggregation/disaggregation, i.e., the new Mainframe •  Storage being pulled back into the server

Source hFp://premium.wikibon.com/infrastructure 7

The Architecture

•  Scale out…Distributed Systems •  Standardized, yet flexible •  It’s all about software, still requires a fully tested stack •  Inside, Outside, Open and Choice •  Flash, cloud, containers and beyond

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Server SAN landscape (Hyperconverged)

More Hyperconverged Players

More coming…

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It’s a big enough umbrella…

Meet most of the criteria, but purposefully not meeting all

Scale-‐out All-‐flash array SDN meets SDS Data Aware Scale-‐out NAS

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CIO Challenges

•  Budgets and headcount are flat •  Exponential growth in data and steady increase of new

projects •  Competition from “the cloud”

IT simplicity translates into agility and flexibility 11

Your Last Refresh/Upgrade

Servers

Storage

Network

Backup

Get off the hamster wheel and into the infinity pool! 12

Changing Design Mentality

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Traditional Model Hyperscale-‐like Virtualized

Hardware resiliency So_ware/applica`on resiliency

Sta`c/fixed Dynamic update/change

Network

Bare metal

PaaS

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Operational Impact Conway’s Law “Organiza(ons which design systems … are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communica(on structures of these organiza(ons.”

FEAR: Does the new model = less jobs?

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Some Final Words •  Friends don’t let friends build new data centers •  BoFlenecks aren’t eliminated, they are simply moved •  Don’t let legacy [infrastructure, applica`ons or mindset] hold your

business back

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Summary •  Server SAN architecture proven in hyperscale, early

days in enterprise –  2014: ~ 600M hyperconverged; > $6B converged; > $1T IT

•  Simplicity requires technology and people in sync •  Infrastructure serves your applications

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Join me for an awesome panel discussion on Friday at 9am: Should Your Infrastructure Look Like ‘s?

[email protected] @stu