The document discusses how digital disruption is transforming enterprise IT architectures to be more user-centric and interconnected. It describes the challenges of aging infrastructure, more data and users/devices in more places. To address these challenges, the document proposes an Interconnection Oriented Architecture (IOA) that interconnects people, locations, clouds and data using a hub-based model with performance, ecosystem and data hubs to optimize user experience, bandwidth costs, multi-cloud access and analytics.

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INTERCONNECTION ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
Architecting an Enterprise of the Future

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DISRUPT
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY is disrupting enterprise business...
EXPANSION IN
RAPID-GROWTH
MARKETS
VIRTUALIZATION
OF WORK &
WORKPLACE
PRIVACY AND SECURITY
INTERNET OF THINGS
SOCIAL, MOBILE,
ANALYTICS, CLOUD
(SMAC)
REAL-TIME
COLLABORATION
ENTERPRISE

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EVOLVE
...transforming IT architectures toward an OMNI-CHANNEL MODEL
& interconnected model.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING ERA
Main Frame
Personal Computing
NETWORK ERA
World wide web
WAN
File Servers
LAN
CONNECTED ERA
Peering
Mobile
Internet Exchanges
Cloud

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CHALLENGE
However, enterprise businesses encounter major IT challenges when
TRANSITIONING TO DIGITAL…
GROWING
USER
EXPECTATION
AGING IT
INFRASTRUCTURE
MORE DATA
MORE PLACES
CYBER
SECURITY
MORE USERS
MORE DEVICES

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DRIVERS
TRANSITION
…and CURRENT IT ARCHITECTURES are not properly architected to support...
EDGE
TODAY
CORE
SYSYEMS OF
RECORD
System Centric –
Bring Users to the Data
Centralized &
Owned Data Centers
EDGE
TOMORROW
CORE
Function
Transact
Connect & Collaborate
Collect & Predict
Store
Maintain
Report
SYSYEMS OF
ENGAGEMENT
User Centric –
Move Data to the Users
Distributed &
Third-Party Data Centers

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CURRENTSTATE
TIPPINGPONT
WINDOW TO ACT
DRIVERS
More UsersReal-Time
More
Devices
More
Locations
More Data
TIPPING POINT
…resulting in barriers and LOST BUSINESS opportunity.
TIME
TIPPING PONT
Capability
Workload
Lost
Business
Opportunity

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PEOPLE
Interconnecting Employees,
Customers and Partners
LOCATIONS
Interconnecting Geographic
Markets, Ecosystems and
Business Location
CLOUDS
Interconnecting Multiple
Clouds Across
Multiple
Locations
DATA
Interconnecting Data
for Accessibility and
Real Time Analytics
SWITCH
In order to resolve these issues an enterprise must interconnect its people, locations, clouds and
data & switch to a more USER-CENTRIC MODEL of IT.

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SWITCH
In order to resolve these issues an enterprise must interconnect its people, locations, clouds and
data & switch to a more USER-CENTRIC MODEL of IT.

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INTERCONNECT
Today ‘enterprises of the future' are transforming IT architecture, leveraging Equinix’s global
carrier-neutral data centres and interconnection solutions to deploy
an INTERCONNECTION ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (IOA)…
ARCHITECTURE
STRATEGY
ARCHITECTURE
COMPONENT
EDGE PERFORMANCE HUBPUSH APPS & SERVICES
ECOSYSTEMS ECOSYSTEMS
EXCHANGE
CONNECT & DELIVER
ADJACENT DATA HUBLOCATE DATA & ANALYTICS
INTER-
CONNECTING
LOCATIONS
INTER-
CONNECTING
PEOPLE
INTER-
CONNECTING
CLOUDS
INTER-
CONNECTING
DATA

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...which manifests itself as a physical implementation called an IOATM NODE
IOA NODE
PERFORMANCE
HUB
ECOSYSTEMS
EXCHANGE
DATA HUB

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EDGE
Push Apps and
Data to the EDGE
Connect and Deliver
via ECOSYSTEMS
Locate Data and
Analytics ADJACENT
Traditional
…using colocation to create a HUB BASED ARCHITECTURE at the Edge of the Enterprise
network, meshing together tailored service nodes...

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CHALLENGES
…solving for enterprise business FOUR MAJOR IT CHALLENGES...
PEOPLE
Problem
Inadequate user experience
Workload/Application
Real-time collaboration
2.5xincrease
in bandwidth/
employee while
Reducing
OPEX by
25%
38%reduction
in application
Latency of global
workflow
BUSINESS IMPACT

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CHALLENGES
…solving for enterprise business FOUR MAJOR IT CHALLENGES...
LOCATIONS
Problem
Unsustainable growth
In bandwidth cost
Workload/Application
Traffic optimization
45%Reduction
in bandwidth
OPEX/employee
BUSINESS IMPACT
40%Reduction
in latency of
customer facing apps

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CHALLENGES
…solving for enterprise business FOUR MAJOR IT CHALLENGES...
CLOUDS
25%Reduction
in latency of
Real-time
analytics apps
Problem
Inefficient & unsecure
multi-cloud access
Workload/Application
Multi-cloud
38%Reduction
in application
Latency of global
workflow
BUSINESS IMPACT

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CHALLENGES
…solving for enterprise business FOUR MAJOR IT CHALLENGES...
DATA
Problem
Insufficient customer insights
Workload/Application
Insufficient customer insights
$8MMAnnual
OPEX savings
implementing hybrid cloud
BUSINESS IMPACT
30%cost
reduction
Insufficient
customer insights

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CHALLENGES
…solving for enterprise business four major IT challenges...
Inadequate user experience
Real-time collaboration
2.5x increase in
bandwidth/employee while
reducing OPEX
by 25%
38% reduction
in application latency of
global collaboration workflow
Unsustainable growth in
bandwidth cost
Traffic optimization
45% reduction in bandwidth
OPEX / employee
40% reduction
in latency of customer facing
apps
Inefficient & unsecure multi-
cloud access
Multi-cloud
25% reduction in latency of
real-time data analytics apps
50% reduction
in OPEX per app
Insufficient
customer insights
IoT & distributed analytics
30% cost reduction in cloud
connectivity cost/analytic
application
$8MM annual
OPEX savings implementing
hybrid cloud
Problem
Workload/Application
Business Impact
PEOPLE LOCATIONS CLOUDS DATA