David Brock, Director of Sales South central Region, and Michael Schofield, Equinix Senior Global Solutions Architect, discuss The Evolution Story at EVOLUTION Dallas on November 12, 2015. In highlighting Equinix as the World's Leading Interconnection Platform, they addressed typical enterprise data challenges and trends driving new requirements for today's data center, both of which can be solved using Equinix Interconnection Platform™. The result: Equinix empowers its customers to interconnect and thrive in today's 24x7 global economy.
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A little bit of my self…
Why I came to Equinix?
Why I am excited about being here?
Seeing is believing…One of our premier campus in the Equinix fleet is right here in Chicago…tours later from local team.
I would like to thank you for coming. Series of events we started last year
What hearing from our customers is they want more.
The pace of evolution is increasing
Its expressing itself in many forms
Uber is a taxi?
Apple a car company?
Nike-Under Amour
Traditional companies – Shrink wrapped software – Autodesk/Teradata/Service Now
Collaboration
Gaming Industry
Google creating artificial intellignece
Boeing
GE, internet of things
Companies are recognizing technology as a fundamental sustainable competitive advantage
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As an ever-greater share of economic and customer value is delivered through digital services, data centers are fueling our digital economy.
Today’s enterprise for example…88% of workloads and 80% + of spend is accounted for…Leaving little room for innovation.
Leveraging cloud is a path to rationalizing cost out and striking the right balance.
Security and control continue to be natural sticking points, Equinix can help address.
Focusing in on data, there are many aspects the Enterprise needs to solve for:
Data Growth: Key variables are data volume (how much), variability (number of types of data) and velocity (the speed of data processing). At Equinix, the Ad-IX allows advertising participants to quickly analyze the ad opportunity and bid in real time.
Sovereignty & Compliance: Are country specific regulations requiring that data must not leave the point from which is originated. What is made in Germany must stay in Germany. On October 6, 2015 the European Court of Justice invalidated the US/EU Data Transfer Pact. “The so-called safe harbor agreement was flawed because it allowed American government authorities to gain routine access to Europeans’ online information.”
Integrated Cloud: A key concern of Enterprises is vendor lock-in. CSPs typically make it easy to migrate (free ingress) but hard to leave (cost to egress). With large data sets, accessing CSPs over the Internet becomes problematic as well as expensive vs direct, proximate interconnection.
Availability of the data center is fundamental. As we live in a 24/7/365 world, we need the data center to be always on, every day, all the time.
In a world where mobile devices are the new standard interface to IT Systems, we need to ensure a quality experience for the user or customer experience
In a global world we need to be ready for growth and scale.
To energize productivity for birds-of-feather companies and organizations, we need to have common place for buyers and sellers to exchange data, information and transact.
As the Hybrid IT Model emerges as a new norm, we need to enable the journey to the hybrid-cloud.
Background:
As covered in our discussion on Interconnection Oriented Architecture there are 3 main challenges associated with disruption:
Market challenges: shifting from cost take out to growth; global competition and growing to new markets & locations; M&A
Business challenges: Shift from a product to a product and service company; Omni-channel to engage your partners, customers and employees; workplace is becoming virtualized
Technology challenges: SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud); Internet of Things; Real-time collaboration => all change business processes
This disruption is leading to a transformation of the business architecture and the need to become an interconnected Enterprise
Where you are able to:
Respond instantly via any channel
Growth via digital ecosystems
Make real time decisions
Innovate quickly
Table stakes…without it cant to cloud
To address the requirements of the data center, these five imperatives should be considered:
Some the fundamental tenets for funding your own data center have also changed.
Real Estate economics
New Generation infrastructure
Software Defined hardware
Economics have changes
The move away from fully outsourced arrangements.
Allowing for the segregation of the physical layer from the management
Equinix has fostered ecosystems with aggregate revenues ranging from the leading edge of real-time advertising bidding to the multi-billions dollar financial services community of high frequency trading. Today we’re now the leader in Interconnection for the Public Cloud ecosystem.
The largest Public Cloud
Examples-engineering firms
Earlier, we mentioned the network availability of the vast majority of network carriers. This network density combined with the major Public Cloud players fuels Equinix Interconnection Platform for new ecosystems to form.
Equinix is fueling the growth of the Public Cloud ecosystem. Multi-Cloud means customer choice.
We’re home to The Public Clouds—Amazon Web Services, Azure, IBM Softlayer, Google Cloud Platform, Cisco Interclub and VMware cloud Air. We also help power Salesforce.com, Workday, Facebook, YouTube and Netflix + 500 CSP and MSP inside our fortress
We have customers today that have the capability to maintain compliance with their data security and data sovereignty regulations while leveraging the vast computational power available via Public Cloud providers.
APIs and the Equinix Cloud Portal are making Enterprise direct access to the cloud easy, fast and scalable.
The Enterprise Customer Process
Select location and cloud provider
Select virtual circuit speed
Enter cloud service key or service identifier
Virtual circuit provisioned in a few minutes
Equinix APIs are bridging the gap between Buyers and Sellers
Equinix manages API mapping, sparing customers from reacting to multiple API updates
We’ve standardized interfaces
“Apigee” is utilized for enterprise-grade API Management
DH is a solution framework that serves as an extension of Performance Hub and addresses enterprises’ demand for data intensive applications. <Read the benefits – paraphrase>
Integrated Cloud Storage
Data Hub provides the data center locations needed to store performance and capacity tiers of data and metadata close to their sources
(enterprise offices, Internet, public clouds), in addition to providing private high-bandwidth links to public clouds for the archive tier
through storage gateways.
• Avoids slow (and possibly expensive) data movement by locating data repositories close to the data sources
• Improves access times to active data and metadata by placing data within Performance Hub locations
• Supports multi-region deployments for seamless disaster recovery
• Eliminates the problem of data silos thanks to a central multi-tenant data platform
Big Data Analytics:
Data Hub and Performance Hub enable private data processing clusters like Hadoop (in Data Hub) for analytics workloads that leverage
the scalable, elastic compute power of the public cloud for business intelligence applications.
• Avoid the expensive and time consuming step of copying data over the WAN. Data Hub allows instantaneous private and direct
access to enterprise storage systems for applications running in public cloud
• Multi-tenant data processing platform gives disparate stakeholders within your organization (e.g., marketing, sales, manufacturing,
engineering) the ability to run simultaneous big data jobs
• Realize proximity and improved accessibility to external data sets for data enrichment and real time analytics
Data protection and replication
Data Hub implementations within a metro enable multi-site deployment for data redundancy, allowing data to be synchronously replicated
by your enterprise between Equinix International Business ExchangeTM (IBX¨) data centers within a metro.
• Take advantage of high availability between sites
• The Data Hub infrastructure allows your enterprise to realize continuous replication of data for disaster recovery sites (including geo
redundancy). You can also employ snapshot backup solutions that are optimized for locality and performance
• Tiered data backup and recovery strategy allows your IT teams to easily strategize a near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and
Recovery Time Objective (RTO), crucial features of any disaster recovery strategy
Recently wave made announcements to augment our professional capabilities.
Acquired NIMBO
Represents an important step in Equinix larger initiative to build its professional services capabilities to support data center migrations, WAN optimization, and the creation of scalable, high performing hybrid cloud solutions
Specializing in migrating insourced applications to hybrid cloud architecture
Nimbo is a AWS and MS Azure partner
Why?...Just this past week we announced
Investments of $227M to increase our interconnection capacity. Currently standing at 147,000 globally.
Re-architecting IT towards a dynamic and distributed infrastructure essential to compete in today’s imperatives
NY6…worlds largest financial ecosystem
SG3…adding capacity to southeast Asia's digital backbone
ME1…expanding our presence in Australia's software hub
LD6…Major milestone fueling our ability to meet growing demands on the European continent and strengthening our virtual financial center by 25%
TR2…Launching the premier DC in the country, tethering to our existing TR1 to propagate highly interconnected business ecosystems.