1. The Journey To The Cloud:
From The DataCenter Perspective
Leo Chan
Consulting Systems Engineer
Cisco Data Center, Greater China
leochan@cisco.com
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2. Agenda
• The Journey To The Cloud: Why Now?
• Cloud: What Does It Mean To The Data Center
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3. The Journey To The Cloud:
Why Now?
CONSUMERIZATION :
Users & Customers Taking Control
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4. Consumerization is FORCING changes
“Consumerization will force more IT change over
the next ten years than any other trend” Gartner
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5. Embrace Or Become Increasingly Irrelevant
IT transition has begun:
 Simplicity
 Self-Service
 Choice
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6. What does it mean to I.T.?
• Everything Needs To Go VIRTUAL: Desktops,
Apps, Servers, Storage
• Any Device, Any Location, Any Time
• Infinite Scalability (Compute, Network, Storage)
We Need “The Cloud”
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7. Agenda
• The Journey To The Cloud: Why Now?
• Cloud: What Does It Mean To The Data Center
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8. WHAT IS CLOUD COMPUTING?
IT resources and services that are abstracted from
the underlying infrastructure and provided “On-
Demand” and “At Scale” in a multi-tenant
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9. What’s In The Cloud?
In a nut shell, it’s a DC(s) equipped with virtualized
resource pools
• Compute
• Network
• Storage
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10. Data Center Evolution To The Cloud
Cisco’s Five Phase Plan
Consolidation Virtualization Automation Utility Market
Inter-Cloud
Private Clouds
Unified Computing
Unified Fabric
Data Center Networking
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11. How Do You Build It?
Packaged, Block A-La-Carte, Self
Approach Assembled
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12. Power of Three is Real…
Committed to customer success in the journey to pervasive
virtualization and private cloud
• Virtual Computing Environment coalition.
VCE Inc. formed by Cisco and EMC with Partner
Ecosystem Leverage
VMware
Services Venture
and Investment
• …unprecedented collaboration to Integrated Sales,
accelerate the journey to private cloud and Services and Support
its compelling efficiency and agility Technology Innovations
Vblock Infrastructure Packages
• Provides joint development of solutions,
services and partner enablement that
Extensive
minimize risk and speed time-to-value and Ongoing
Collaboration
• In the form of Infrastructure Packages
called Vblocks
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13. Vblock Infrastructure Packages
A New Way of Delivering IT Validated Packages
Benefits: Information
Accelerate the journey cloud computing while
lowering risk and operating expenses
Applications
Validated critical Apps with detailed specs
and performance figures Operating Systems
Support and manage Service Level Virtualization
Agreements
– Resource metering and reporting Compute
– Configuration and provisioning
– Resource utilization Network
S VCE Provides One-Stop Shop Seamless
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Secure, Scalable, Predictable, Simplified
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14. Key Takeaway:
Cisco Is Ready To Help You Start The Journey NOW
• Consumerization is gonna FORCE change
• Cloud is becoming mainstream
• Cisco provides a phased approach to transform
your Data Center to be cloud ready
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