Pepijn Palmans 
Managing Director 
INFRASTRUCTURE 
IS 
DEAD 
@ppalmans 
@housingcenterbe 
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Cloud & managed hosting provider 
Focus: 
Enterprise 
Multinationals 
GOV / NGO 
SERVICE 
Not 
Product 
All customers 
who demand 
1000% uptime 
WHO ?
HOW ?
All 
MULTI-TENANT 
HOW ?
Standard 
BUILDING BLOCKS 
HOW ?
Custom-Build 
SOLUTIONS 
HOW ?
Align with 
ENTERPRISE NEEDS 
HOW ?
State-of-the-Art 
SOLUTIONS 
HOW ?
Partner with 
LEADERS 
HOW ?
INNOVATE 
STAY AHEAD 
EVOLVE FAST 
HOW ?
HOW ? 
3 DATACENTERS
CHALLENGES
RING STRUCTURE 
STP 
L2 
L3 
VRRP / HSRP 
Q-IN-Q / MPLS 
>_ 
It’s one big network
bladechassis 
hypervisors 
virtual networks 
>_ 
distributedswitch 
Open vSwitch 
>_ 
iSCSI 
live storage migrations 
>_ 
more 
more 
more 
: 
PSYSICAL -> VIRTUAL 
&
STP 
MSTP 
PVSTP+ 
>_ 
INTEROPERABILITY 
BYOH
automation 
software defined 
change in traffic pattern 
>_ 
INFRASTRUCTURE IS DEAD 
Flexibility 
Scalability 
FastDelivery 
Agility 
Innovation 
Security 
CAPEX 
Vs 
OPEX
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objectives
Objectives
Objectives 
VXLAN 
Support forSDN 
Interoperable 
withothervendors 
Fewerdevices
Objectives 
1000% uptime 
40gbit -> 100gbit 
VendorSupport 
ClearVision
Objectives 
FIND 
A 
PARTNER
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Select vendors
SELECT 
vendors
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POC’S
POC 
labs
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POC’S 
Evaluate
EVALUATE 
Open Standards 
Vision 
Recovery 
Support
EVALUATE 
• 
ResilienceFramework : IRF 
• 
Excellent POC 
• 
Clearvision& solutions 
• 
More thanwe needed 
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POC’S 
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Decide & buy
DECIDE 
& Buy
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POC’S 
Evaluate 
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Integrate
INTEGRATE
CONCLUSION
GET HELP
GO HYBRID
PARTNER
THANKYOU 
Q & A 
Pepijn Palmans 
Managing Director 
@ppalmans 
@housingcenterbe 
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Infrastructure is Dead - Pepijn Palmans