This document discusses the evolution of data centers from server rooms to virtualized, automated, and unified computing environments. It describes how virtualization and consolidation can increase resource utilization, decrease costs, and improve business agility. The document outlines Cisco's strategy and roadmap to help customers transition to private clouds and IT as a service models through technologies like the Unified Computing System, Nexus switches, and validated infrastructure packages.
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Evolve IT: Why Performance Matters When Building Your New SD-WAN, Not all SD-WAN is Created Equal eBook
Silver Peak & Innovation Network Technologies (InNet)
Evolve IT: Why Performance Matters When Building Your New SD-WAN, Not all SD-WAN is Created Equal eBook
Software-Defined WAN is transforming Hybrid WAN networks into simplified, bandwidth efficient, and enterprise-class quality-of-experience deployments. These along with other unique attributes of SD-WAN combine to create a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Hybrid WAN alone. Join this webinar to learn the details of how SD-WAN is transforming Hybrid WAN into a solution that delivers a real ROI for your business.
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
FatPipe®, the inventor and multiple patents holder of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), reliability, security, and WAN Optimization products, specializes in providing solutions that transcend Wide Area Network (WAN) failures to maintain business continuity for thousands of customers including numerous Fortune 1000 customers over the last 12 years, and has the largest installed base of customers in software-defined network WANs.
Frontier is a single stop destination for every IT infrastructure solution in the datacenter or the cloud. We architect, implement, secure, monitor and manage every technology domain, and our solutions are end to end.
We have expertise in : Data center design and implementation, Uninterrupted power solutions, smart building solutions, End user computing, Unified Computing, Unified communications, Hyper converged infrastructure, Public, Private and Hybrid cloud.
Slides from ThousandEyes EMEA webinar on Thursday March 7th 2019 at 1000 GMT. Presented by Ian Waters, Director of Solutions Marketing and Tim Hale, Solutions Engineer. Content focuses on the move of enterprises to SD-WAN technologies and WAN transformation in general.
Check out this presentation to learn how a cloud-delivered software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is green, lowers carbon footprints and is good for the environment and Earth. Gain a better understanding of how reducing cooling and power requirements in the branch, lower carbon emissions and fewer devices is helping businesses do more for the environment while at the same time saving money.
Dimension data cloud for the enterprise architectDavid Sawatzke
Dimension Data’s Cloud ranges from completely automated, self-provisioning public services to fully customisable, tailored private and hosted cloud services. Our Cloud services are anchored by our multivendor systems integration and a comprehensive consulting/IT outsourcing/managed services portfolio and our edge is that our Cloud services combine the automation and orchestration of public cloud offerings with the service delivery maturity developed over 30 years of IT services experience. With ongoing development and significiant R&D investment we continue to innovate and grow ourcloud services capabilities
Dimension Data Cloud Services, Offerings and MCP LocationsDavid Sawatzke
Public CaaS
Public cloud IaaS deployed in each region
Private CaaS
On-premise or hosted managed private cloud service
Hosted Private CaaS
Hosted managed private cloud service
Provider CaaS
Dedicated cloud platform for resale by service provide or community
Managed Hosting
Managed physical and virtual infrastructure hosted in Dimension Data data center
Problems with enterprise wan solutions - The Cloud X EcosystemRoy Hilliard
IT departments are faced with balancing application availability, reliability, security, and flexibility. It is far too much to handle especially with shrinking staffs. No one size or solution fits all, but calculated moves into SDWAN/NFV solutions for aspects of the business is proving easier and efficient.
Hybrid WAN has existed for over a decade connecting branch offices via both private WAN (i.e., MPLS) and encrypted VPN over the Internet. Until now, hybrid WAN has been unable to deliver a seamless, simple and quality experience for Enterprise branch offices.
SD-WAN enables quality, simplicity and maximum throughput by combining hybrid WAN with software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud-based principals at scale. This webinar will explain how an existing or new hybrid WAN can be made cost effective, throughput optimized and highly reliable using SD-WAN.
WAN optimization is an important part of network management. WAN optimization is the ability to optimize and enhance your WAN bandwidth resulting in an immediate ROI and increased control.
Next Generation Data Center - IT TransformationDamian Hamilton
Computerworld CIO Event in Hong Kong sponsored by Dimension Data, EMC & Cisco.
Insights into Dimension Data's DC strategy and recent Client engagements
Software-Defined WAN is transforming Hybrid WAN networks into simplified, bandwidth efficient, and enterprise-class quality-of-experience deployments. These along with other unique attributes of SD-WAN combine to create a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Hybrid WAN alone. Join this webinar to learn the details of how SD-WAN is transforming Hybrid WAN into a solution that delivers a real ROI for your business.
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
FatPipe®, the inventor and multiple patents holder of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), reliability, security, and WAN Optimization products, specializes in providing solutions that transcend Wide Area Network (WAN) failures to maintain business continuity for thousands of customers including numerous Fortune 1000 customers over the last 12 years, and has the largest installed base of customers in software-defined network WANs.
Frontier is a single stop destination for every IT infrastructure solution in the datacenter or the cloud. We architect, implement, secure, monitor and manage every technology domain, and our solutions are end to end.
We have expertise in : Data center design and implementation, Uninterrupted power solutions, smart building solutions, End user computing, Unified Computing, Unified communications, Hyper converged infrastructure, Public, Private and Hybrid cloud.
Slides from ThousandEyes EMEA webinar on Thursday March 7th 2019 at 1000 GMT. Presented by Ian Waters, Director of Solutions Marketing and Tim Hale, Solutions Engineer. Content focuses on the move of enterprises to SD-WAN technologies and WAN transformation in general.
Check out this presentation to learn how a cloud-delivered software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is green, lowers carbon footprints and is good for the environment and Earth. Gain a better understanding of how reducing cooling and power requirements in the branch, lower carbon emissions and fewer devices is helping businesses do more for the environment while at the same time saving money.
Dimension data cloud for the enterprise architectDavid Sawatzke
Dimension Data’s Cloud ranges from completely automated, self-provisioning public services to fully customisable, tailored private and hosted cloud services. Our Cloud services are anchored by our multivendor systems integration and a comprehensive consulting/IT outsourcing/managed services portfolio and our edge is that our Cloud services combine the automation and orchestration of public cloud offerings with the service delivery maturity developed over 30 years of IT services experience. With ongoing development and significiant R&D investment we continue to innovate and grow ourcloud services capabilities
Dimension Data Cloud Services, Offerings and MCP LocationsDavid Sawatzke
Public CaaS
Public cloud IaaS deployed in each region
Private CaaS
On-premise or hosted managed private cloud service
Hosted Private CaaS
Hosted managed private cloud service
Provider CaaS
Dedicated cloud platform for resale by service provide or community
Managed Hosting
Managed physical and virtual infrastructure hosted in Dimension Data data center
Problems with enterprise wan solutions - The Cloud X EcosystemRoy Hilliard
IT departments are faced with balancing application availability, reliability, security, and flexibility. It is far too much to handle especially with shrinking staffs. No one size or solution fits all, but calculated moves into SDWAN/NFV solutions for aspects of the business is proving easier and efficient.
Hybrid WAN has existed for over a decade connecting branch offices via both private WAN (i.e., MPLS) and encrypted VPN over the Internet. Until now, hybrid WAN has been unable to deliver a seamless, simple and quality experience for Enterprise branch offices.
SD-WAN enables quality, simplicity and maximum throughput by combining hybrid WAN with software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud-based principals at scale. This webinar will explain how an existing or new hybrid WAN can be made cost effective, throughput optimized and highly reliable using SD-WAN.
WAN optimization is an important part of network management. WAN optimization is the ability to optimize and enhance your WAN bandwidth resulting in an immediate ROI and increased control.
Next Generation Data Center - IT TransformationDamian Hamilton
Computerworld CIO Event in Hong Kong sponsored by Dimension Data, EMC & Cisco.
Insights into Dimension Data's DC strategy and recent Client engagements
HP's Converged Infrastructure and Data Center Transformation Models Define th...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored podcast discussion from HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas on How HP's converged strategy is designed to meet the challenges facing IT today.
IT and Business solutions through Cloud and Big Data transformation for stron...Rolta
Rising tide of data velocity and multiplication of IT environment has caused problems to the organizations in holding their market presence. In a bid to outperform competition, and problem organizations need heavy research to get to a feasible solution. To conquer these difficulties, Rolta delivers a range of services which help organizations in building strong IT infrastructure with minimal support costs.
Enterprise transformation with cloud computing Jan 2014Gaurav "GP" Pal
We concluded on Jan 31, 2014 another fabulous edition of the Digital Innovation Breakfast. Over 60 people registered and listened to the keynote address by Mr. Bernie Mazer, CIO, US Department of the Interior. This was followed by a lively panel discussion that included US Department of the Interior, US Department of the Treasury, Accenture, Microsoft and Gartner. We are now set to execute on the third edition of the event scheduled for late April 2014/early May 2014 titled “Big Data in Financial Services”.
Desktop to Cloud Transformation PlanningPhearin Sok
Traditional desktop delivery model is based on
a large number of distributed PCs executing operating system
and desktop applications. Managing traditional desktop
environments is incredibly challenging and costly. Tasks like
installations, conguration changes, security measures require
time-consuming procedures and dedicated deskside support. Also
these distributed desktops are typically underutilized, resulting
in low ROI for these assets. Further, this distributed computing
model for desktops also creates a security concern as sensitive
information could be compromised with stolen laptops or PCs.
Desktop virtualization, which moves computation to the data
center, allows users to access their applications and data using
stateless thin-clientdevices and therefore alleviates some of
the problems of traditional desktop computing. Enterprises can
now leverage the exibility and cost-benets of running users'
desktops on virtual machines hosted at the data center to enhance
business agility and reduce business risks, while lowering TCO.
Recent research and development of cloud computing paradigm
opens new possibilities of mass hosting of desktops and providing
them as a service.
However, transformation of legacy systems to desktop clouds
as well as proper capacity provisioning is a challenging problem.
Desktop cloud needs to be appropriately designed and provisioned
to offer low response time and good working experience
to desktop users while optimizing back-end resource usage and
therefore minimizing provider's costs. This paper presents tools
and approaches we have developed to facilitate fast and accurate
planning for desktop clouds. We present desktop workload
proling and benchmarking tools as well as desktop to cloud
transformation process enabling fast and accurate transition of
legacy systems to new cloud-based model.
Viele CIOs fragen sich:
- Wohin in Zukunft mit meiner ICT Infrastruktur?
- Was ist dran an der Microsoft Cloud Vision?
Praxisnahe Antworten finden Sie hier.
Data Center, Private Cloud/IT transformationCisco Canada
The private cloud is one of today’s fastest growing data center solutions, and the significance of a secure architecture for business applications agnostic to the infrastructure is increasing. Cisco IT is building the foundation for business resiliency; however, resiliency, at every layer of the business environment requires a holistic approach to managing and orchestrating infrastructure, platform, and application resources within a data center and across multiple data centers.
In this short talk, Ishow some great ways you can use Jenkins to supercharge both the development AND deployment of your Ruby projects. Finally, I will demonstrate how you can extend the Jenkins CI server (which is written in Java) with nothing Ruby code.
If you aren't getting the most out of your CI tools, or you aren't using a CI tool at all, then this is for you! Implementing a proper CI is a game changer to the way you and your team develop software.
AWS re:Invent 2016: [JK REPEAT] The Enterprise Fast Lane - What Your Competit...Amazon Web Services
Fed up with stop and go in your data center? Shift into overdrive and pull into the fast lane!
Learn how AutoScout24, the largest online car marketplace Europe-wide, are building their Autobahn in the Cloud.
The secret ingredient? Culture! Because “Cloud” is only one half of the digital transformation story: The other half is how your organization deals with cultural change as you transition from the old world of IT into building microservices on AWS with agile DevOps teams in a true „you build it you run it“ fashion.
Listen to stories from the trenches, powered by Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon API Gateway and much more, backed by AWS Partners, AWS Professional Services, and AWS Enterprise Support.
Key takeaways: How to become Cloud native, evolve your architecture step by step, drive cultural change across your teams, and manage your company’s transformation for the future.
Data Center 3.0 Infrastructure Transformationdigitallibrary
The data center is the center of the IT universe. It is the primary source for computing cycles, storage capacity, business applications, and information of all forms. This central positioning also causes the data center to be a target - for budget overruns, user blame, power shortages, security breaches, and worst of all, business shortfalls. Learn how to ensure your data center delivers on its business promise and makes the most cost-effective and efficient use of data center resources - from networks to servers to storage to power.
When customers think about moving to the cloud, one of their first considerations is cost. AWS helps lower customer costs through its “pay only for what you use” pricing model. In this session, we explain our TCO analysis methodology and explore the financial considerations of owning and operating a traditional data center or managed hosting provider compared with using AWS services. Customers also share their processes for developing the right cost savings and optimization model.
The People Model and Cloud Transformation | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
A successful cloud transformation journey incorporates the three pillars of transformation: people, process, and technology. While leveraging the technology, the people component drives transformations. But far too often, cloud transformation efforts concentrate on the process improvement strategies and technology implementation, while essentially ignoring the human aspect of the change initiative and the opportunity to develop a more agile, DevOps culture. Many leaders who look back on previous change initiatives reflect that process and technology were simple to change compared to the people part of the organization. A central perspective within the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, the "people perspective," guides organizations about aspects that affect people to reduce the risk and accelerate the value realization from cloud adoption. This session covers best-practice methods that enable customers to address challenges in setting up the right organizational structure to manage cloud operations, roles and job responsibilities during transition and post-cloud adoption, assessing gaps in skills and competencies required, building effective training models, and shaping a DevOps culture.
These slides--based on the webinar featuring Dennis Drogseth, VP of research at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)--leverage EMA’s consulting expertise and extensive research in digital and IT transformation, IT analytics and requirements to optimize IT for cost and value.
Webinar: Deploying the Combined Virtual and Physical InfrastructurePepperweed Consulting
Delivering complex business services in your organization demands a rigid approach to server deployment and management. Modern data centers often have distributed virtual and physical servers as well as management teams which make the challenge even more difficult. Increasing headcount in your group is typically not an acceptable answer so how do you manage the growing complexity? The answer lies in a complete physical and virtual server life cycle management solution which provides the automation of application deployments.
In Part IV of its five-part webinar series "Managing IT Operations in a Virtualized World", Pepperweed Consulting will discuss how a combination of HP Server Automation and HP Operations Orchestration can streamline the deployment of your operating systems, software and patches for both your physical and virtual infrastructure. We will also analyze how compliance and application release management play a key role in ensuring control over your server deployments.
Confused by cloud? Logicalis at how and why to move to an enterprise cloud platform:
What type of Cloud do I need?
Cloud value elements
What does Cloud mean to you?
MGT220 - Virtualisation 360: Microsoft Virtualisation Strategy, Products, and...Louis Göhl
Learn about the Microsoft virtualisation strategy from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud--and how it will help you cut costs and build value. In this session we review and demonstrate Microsoft virtualisation products and discuss how you can use them to solve today's IT issues (cost cutting, consolidation, business continuity, green IT), develop new computing solutions (VDI) and build a foundation for a more dynamic IT environment, including cloud computing. The session reviews all of the latest Microsoft virtualisation products, including Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server, as well as the System Center management platform (including Virtual Machine Manager 2008). Learn about the innovative pricing and licensing structure that allows further savings to lower both acquisition and ongoing ownership costs. Learn how you can enable IT to become a cost cutting mechanism with Microsoft virtualisation and management technologies.
The enterprise WAN is adapting to address the pervasive availability of broadband Internet, the shift of applications to the cloud and the increasing demands for real-time, online and critical applications in the branch office.
At the same time enterprises have made significant investments in their existing WAN architecture infrastructure network equipment and WAN services. Many enterprises are evaluating an SD-WAN solution as a way to address the changing enterprise landscape without decommissioning their existing WAN any time soon.
This webinar guides you through various flexible architectures and transition steps for SD-WAN that target maximum return while minimizing disruption and risk. Examples of how a cloud-delivered SD-WAN enables flexible transition and deployment in both hybrid and Internet only branches will be shared.
Come sfruttare al meglio la sinergia tra Kemp LoadMaster e il prodotti VMware
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3. Data Center: A Simplified View APPLICATIONS DATA/INFO DATA/INFO DATA CENTER USERS
4. What is Data Center Infrastructure? Applications DATA/INFO Storage Servers DC Network LAN/SAN/IPC Core/Distribution DC facilities Operations
5. ProcessOrder CheckCredit ShipOrder BillCustomer UpdateCust Svce Servers Are Everywhere Data Center Branch / WAN ShipOrder CheckCredit Bill Customer Update Cust Svce ProcessOrder Customer Hits “Buy” Order Complete Premium Customer? Billing Notification Enter Order ConfirmShipment … CRM Notify Sales Rep UpdateRecords ERP Update Inventory WAN Check Inventory SCM Credit Approved Credit Override required Intranet Check Availability Update Call Center Initiate Billing Accts Check Account Balance Update Contracts Update Call Center Customer Master Check Customer DB Deliver Order CheckCredit Purchasing … XML Pack & Ship Order Extranet Logistics EDI Procure Material Warehouse SOAP Extended Enterprise Check Credit History Credit
6. Evolution of a Datacenter Complexity, Cost, Power Universal I/O Ubiquitous Connectivity
7. Evolution of a Datacenter What if we could shrink an entire Datacenter into a single 42 U Rack ??
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9. Data Center Evolution Towards IT as a Service Application-Based Silos ExternalCloud Services Zones ofVirtualization ITaaS(aka Internal Cloud) Apps Servers Network Storage From silos… …to Dynamic Data Centers Standardize Virtualize Self-Service Consolidate Automate Centralize
10. From Today’s Data Center to “Cloud” Cloud OS: Assigns and arranges virtualized resources dynamically for applications and workloads Tiered Apps, Composite Apps Traditional Apps Apps Grid Apps Cloud OS System Mgmt Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Extended IP Infra CPU Storage CPU Storage Network Extended IP Infra: The IP network with abstractions to support the cloud model (e.g. security, SLA enablement)
29. Result - Legacy Server vendors have cobbled together software layers to manage hardware
30. Result is a complex stack of management software to support serversAccidental Architecture Low-level Server Monitor and Configuration Manager OS Patch/Update Management HW Power Manager HW Performance Manager HW Device Monitor and Configuration Manager Server vendor revenues driven by service & software to manage Software Agents Databases
31. Datacenter 3.0 Framework Location Freedom HWFreedom ProvisioningFreedom Business ProcessFreedom Inter-Cloud Private Clouds Unified Computing Unified Fabric Data Center Networking
32. Phase 1: Data Center Networking DC Interconnect Solutions Application Switching Solutions SAN Switching Solutions DC Edge Routing WAN Optimization MDS 9000 Family ASA and ACE Families Ethernet Switching and Unified Fabric Solutions Catalyst Family Nexus Family
44. App App App Net State Net State OS OS OS Net State vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch vNetwork Distributed Switch Cisco VN-LinkNetwork Policies Tied to Virtual Machine VN-Link Domain
57. Mgmt Server Unified Computing System A single system that encompasses: Network: Unified fabric Compute: Industry standard x86 Virtualization optimized Unified management model Dynamic resource provisioning Efficient Scale Cisco network scale and services Fewer servers with more memory Lower cost Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables Lower power consumption Fewer points of management
58. SAN B Simplifying the Data Center cont… SAN A LAN Mgmt Single, scalable integrated system Network + compute virtualization Dynamic resource provisioning 23 September 16, 2008 Cisco Inc., Company Confidential - NDA Required
66. Scalable, manageable and diagnosableCisco Unified Computing System Process Automation Up to 90% greater administrator efficiency, with faster changes and fewer incidents Up to 50% fewer components, switches, adaptors and management modules to purchase, manage, power, and cool Up to 30% lower memory and SW licensing costs via Cisco Extended Memory Technology Up to 10% better processor performance via Cisco Hypervisor Bypass Technology Per VM Network services through VN-Link Operations and Support Business Service Management Upto 80% reduction in Cabling Any workload on any Server Scalable
68. Virtualization Automation Cisco Validated Pvt Cloud Ready Infrastructure Packages Steps 4&5: Data Center Evolution Towards IT as a Service Public/Hybrid Clouds Private Cloud SLA? Integration? Security & Compliance? Consolidation Standardization? Cisco’s Validated Infrastructure Packages Accelerate Infrastructure Virtualization and Private Cloud Adoption
69. PartnerEcosystem Leverage Solutions Ventureand Investment Integrated Sales, Services and Support Technology Innovations Vblock Infrastructure Packages Extensive and Ongoing Collaboration Virtual Computing Environment Leading the journey to pervasive virtualization and private cloud Imagine the power of three… Unprecedented collaboration of three technology innovators and market leaders in concert with their partner ecosystems
70. Information Applications OperatingSystems Virtualization Compute Network Accelerate Time to Results – Reduce TCO Storage Vblock Infrastructure Packages A New Way of Delivering IT Solution Packages Rapid deployment model of virtualized infrastructure Pre-integrated and validated solutions reduce total cost of ownership Service level driven through predictable performance and operational characteristics Improved compliance/security and reduced risk Vblock Infrastructure Packages
78. Up to 28,000 virtual machines versus 7,200 in a legacy environment of the same size
79. Up to 4 times more virtual machines per kilowatt of power; minimum of 76 virtual machines are being deployed per kilowatt of powerCisco IT Production Deployment 1 megawatt, 10,000 sq ft Greenfield Facility Results for Unified Computing System in conjunction with Nexus 7000 and Nexus 5000 5 production business apps including News@Cisco and the Office of the Chairman and CEO
80. Consolidation Virtualization Automation Utility Market Cisco Data Center 3.0 Innovation Roadmap Nexus 5000 UCS B Series Inter-Cloud UCS C Series CiscoMDS Nexus 1000V Private Clouds Nexus 2000 Nexus 4000 2010 Unified Computing CiscoWAAS Cisco Catalyst Nexus 7000 Unified Fabric CiscoACE DC Networking
81. Cisco Data Center 3.0 Ecosystem N1000 Data Center Virtualization Solution Network Services Storage Network Server Access Network Virtualization and Unified Fabric Partners Application Partners Security SAN Application Delivery N7000 Unified Fabric N5000 MDS 9000 Servers Storage DC LAN GbE/10GbE N7000 V V V V V V V V Data Center Network Manager– Topology Visualization and Provisioning ANM– Advanced L4-7 Services Module Management Data Center Management Data Center Best Practices and Services Cisco Data Center Assurance Program Cisco Services and Support Storage Partners ASA WAAS ACE C49xx C6500 N5000 N7000 CBS3100 E-mail Security VPN
Thank you, XXXX. As XXX mentioned, we are seeing a rapid evolution to this concept of the dynamic data center. Our 3 companies’ are aligned around this vision for the data center, and are leading the way for customer adoption.The traditional, old model of building data centers goes like this: the CIO recognizes that there is a business problem and assigns someone to: choose an application, choose a server to run it on, choose some storage for it to use, and attach it to the network. You end up with a succession of silos. In some cases some resources may be shared – a single storage system may support multiple applications, for example – but the silo model is still fairly apparent in how people select, deploy and operate solutions. Growth is dramatically slowing around this traditional, old model.Server virtualization is driving a new model. And there is a big opportunity in virtualized infrastructure. Today customers are seeing a good number of tangible benefits from virtualizing their IT environment. But virtualization is still not deployed across the board despite proven economics. At the core of a virtualized dynamic data center is server virtualization. Sometimes there are multiple “zones of virtualization” because few companies combine things into one big virtual pool. They might have one virtual infrastructure for internal business apps, another for desk top virtualization, another for engineering, and so on. But silos of virtualization are still silos, and the overall benefits constrained within each silo. The silos must be broken to obtain a truly shared infrastructure. This is a required step to enable more savings and more agility.In the new model, people create one virtualized infrastructure in which everything is shared. You’ll hear different names around this, but the general idea is the same: a pool of applications share a CPU infrastructure and a storage infrastructure, and everything is virtual so that applications and storage migrate quickly from one spot to another. So as we move away from the old model (application-based silos) of building data centers to the new model (dynamic data centers), a further extension of this trend is cloud computing. Virtualization enables the adoption and control of cloud computing. The dynamic data center moves closer to one shared infrastructure where everything is virtual. In cloud computing, customers access IT as a service over the internet. Someone else builds the data center, manages the applications, and so on. Customers who uses external clouds no longer buy IT, but someone is still building the data centers that provide external cloud services. Data center architectures for cloud providers are similar to those for internal clouds except more-so. They often have more users, more load, and higher up-time requirements.One last point I’ll make is that as customers move to this model of IT called the dynamic data center, they want best-of-breed products across the network, network, and storage layer.NEXT SLIDE…
Virtualization is a question of “when” and not “if”Your IT managers must virtualize to address physical issues such as space, power, cooling, and asset utilization as well as increasing agility and responsiveness to your internal LOB customersVirtualization is not a new concept – but deploying it at scale is – and it cannot be done using current architectures. Why not?We have virtualized the network and storage, and created a hypervisor layer to virtualize operating systems … but we have not addressed compute virtualizationEven then, we are left with many separate silos of virtualization. Since compute, network, hypervisor, and storage virtualization are not integrated, often changes in one area necessitates action in others. It’s like the Whack-a-Mole arcade game – make a change to the hypervisor and network and security changes are required; move a VM and everything is affected. Many customers who have placed big bets on virtualization are running into issues like “VMware sprawl” that are preventing them from realizing the full benefit and efficiencies of virtualization.Thus, savings from virtualization in one area are offset by increased operational costs in other areas. As a result, instead of virtualization increasing your ROI, scaling it actually does the opposite. And dramatically so. This “domino effect” not only increases your costs, it makes your IT managers change averse – and thus less responsive to the needs of your business. Virtualization at scale also costs a lot. You have to assemble systems from piece parts resulting in high systems integration costs. And then, you are faced with process, skill, and organizational challenges from brute force management of this technical patchwork quilt. Thus today, we need a way to cross this chasm. We need a paradigm shift – a new architecture that addresses compute virtualization and integrates the islands of virtualization to enable you to deploy virtualization at scale with increasingROI.
SummaryWe see the network as a central component to the evolution of the virtualized data center and to the enablement of cloud computing. The "California Solution" is a critical phase that delivers a simpler, more efficient architecture that enables the enterprise to execute business processes in the best place and most efficient way, with uncompromising availability and greatly improved performance.Cisco is focused on enabling workload portability. Eventually an enterprise will be able to exchange a workload with one or more trusted service providers.Cisco is committed to leading the industry and eliminating virtualized data center roadblocks by working with partners on a radically simpler architecture that brings synergies to 1) network, 2) compute & storage, and 3) virtualization to address just-in-time and just-in-case IT service delivery--all within open, industry-standard technologies with the network as the platform. Cisco is focused on delivering products and technologies that bridge the goals of virtualization with scalable, reliable, and secure networking technologies that bring the best of platforms together.Cisco has been a major industry player in the data center for years. California represents the natural evolution of that experience.The beneficiaries of that experience are customers that can rely on Cisco to not only lower the total cost of data center ownership, but substantially improve the value those data centers bring to the customers’ customers.