Next Generation Data Centers

Next Generation
Data Centers

Anil Vasudeva
Principal Analyst & President
anil@imexresearch.com
408-268-0800
IMEX
RESEARCH.COM
©2000-2005 IMEX Research All rights Reserved
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• Markets Drivers/Industry Dynamics
Blades – An evolution from PC Servers to Supercomputers
Major Applications – Access, HPC, NIC, TP
4 Tiered Computing & Telecom Markets by Environment
Incumbents vs. Startups

• Market Segments – Mkt.Fcst./Shares/Channels
Market Forecast, Migrations, Supply Chain, Channels, Price Erosion

• Industry Issues/Technology Hurdles
Stds./Midplane, Server Mgmt/DMTF, Fabric Choices
Thermals, IP Acceleration

• Futures Opportunities for Startups
Complexity Reduction, Data Center Mgmt ,
From Next Gen PCs to Clustered Supercomputers
Interested Venture Capital
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Chaos in the Enterprise . . .
File transfers AIX to
Database extracts MVS FTP between Sun - HP/UX via Platinum
to SP2 via MQ Series 4.4 NT 9.9
Network
IBM3090-600J IBM RS6000
TM TM AIX 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 HP
MVS/ESA Sun DB2/6000 UX 10, 11.0, 11.2 MPE
Server/OS IMS / ADABAS Solaris 3.2, 3.4, 3.5 Sybase 11.9, 12
TM TM
Oracle 7.5, 8.0
Fujitsu
Database IBM AS/400 DS90UX Compaq
OS/400 P/M ProLiant 2500,5500
NT 3.5, 4.0 SQL
Application CICS
Batch CAD/CAM Inventory PeopleSoft
Financials Lotus
E-commerce Exchange Notes
OLTP
Storage
STK Silos Tape
Legato to DLT
BU by FDR 8mm Backup Cheyenn
Backup Upstream IBM e to 4mm HP
ADSM3490 OmniBack

Test

Disaster D/R plan (MF only)
Recovery

(1) Scales poorly (2) Difficult to manage (3) Reliability is questionable (4) Management costs out of control

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Market Trends

Data Center Automation Targets
20-25%
Servers
Utilization 80+%

15-30
Servers
Servers/Admin 500+
1TB
Storage
Terabytes/DBA
100TB

Networks 50-100
Ntwk Ports/Admin 500+

System HAL- 3 (99.9%)
Availability
HAL- 5 (99.999%)
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Server Market Segmentation - Platforms

Large SMP
Parallel Sysplex
Scale Up (Consolidated SMP Servers)

Dynamic LPAR Rack Clusters
SW Provisioning/VMWare High Availability/
IBM: i890/p690/z990 Hi Perform.Clusters
SUN: SunFire 4800,12K -Linux/AIX/Solaris Clusters
- HPC Clusters
DELL: PowerEdge 6650
ORACLE: 9iRAC/PE6650

Blade Servers
High Density Rack Mount
-Highly Integrated Dense FF
-Rapid Deployment, Flex Architect.
-RLX: 300i, 800i, HP: 40b, p
-FUJITSU: BX300, DELL:1655
IBM: HS20,40,JS20 Sun:100 s,x

Scale Out (Clustered Blade Servers)

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3 Tier Computing Infrastructure
Application
End-Users
 Uniform and ubiquitous physical
Connectivity – “Wire Once”
Internet
 Any user to any server via the
Network Services: Internet
Web Servers,  Any server to any server via the LAN
Firewalls,  Any sever to any storage via the SAN
Load balancers
LAN
 Dynamic Logical Binding of…
 …server network identify
Application Services:  …server OS version
Application Servers &  …server application assignment
Database Servers  …application data volumes
SAN  Resulting in
 Application Mobility across servers
Storage  Data mobility across storage

IMEX

NexGen Architecture

Ethernet,
Network Fabric Wi-Fi.

System Fabric
Management
Quadrics,
SNMP, Myrinet,
Fabric
IETF/ InfiniBand,
CIM, Ethernet IP,
SMI-S, Ethernet IP w/TOE,
SMASH. Ethernet IP w/TOE+RDMA,
Microsoft Chimney

SCSI,
Fiber Channel,
iSCSI

ATA, SCSI,
SATA, SAS

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End to End Internet
HA, Secure Data Center

FC SAN IP SAN NAS NAS

IP Storage Network
Web
App
Internet Web DB
Edge Core Web
App
Optical
Web
DB
Web
App
Web

Web
DB
App
Web

Edge Applications Data Center
Directory Security Policy Management

Software OS Platform

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Market Segments by Applications

OLTP
Transaction
10 K Processing
eCommerce

Data DSS (RAID - 0, 3)
(RAID - 1, 5, 6)
1K Warehousing
(Latency)

Visual DB
IOPs

100 Scientific Computing HPC
HPC
Imaging
TPC
10 Audio Streaming
Streaming
HPC
Video
1
1 5 10 50 100 500

*IOs per sesond for a required response time ( ms)
MB/sec
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TPC’s priority - High Availability & Syst Cost

z/390
$10 M Sysplex
Avg. S/390
S/390
Syst z/390 MVS
MVS
IBM
IBM
Price
Propl
Propl
$1 M Prop.
Sun-Solaris
Sun-Solaris
HP-UX
HP-UX
IBM
IBM IBM-AIX
IBM-AIX
$100 K Clustered NCR-SVR4
NCR-SVR4 Bull
Bull Dell
Dell
UNIX AS400 Fujitsu
Fujitsu HP
HP
IBM
IBM NEC
NEC
Siemens
Siemens Stratus
Stratus
UNIX
Cluster Win Win
$10K Linux
Clustered Linux

0.1 1 10 100 Downtime
Hrs./Syst/Yr
99.999% 99.99% 99.9% 99.0%

System Availability
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HPC: Going from Academia to Wall St to Hollywood

High Performance Entertainment
High Performance Commercial Bioinformatics Decision-Support Entertainment
Commercial BioInformatics Decision
Audio/Video OnDemand
Computing
Computing Visualization
Visualization Support Syst Audio/Video On Demand
Systems
Data: IMEX Research & Panasas

100+ Teraflops Rendering (Texture & Polygons) Data rate & capacity
Throughput =Research All rights Reserved Throughput = 1.2 GB/s
©2000-2005 IMEX 100 GB/s Throughput : DSL/Cable
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Blades Servers - Infrastructure
Management Modules Remote Mgmt+KVM over IP

Midplane Networking: Gbit Ethernet Switches
W/Connectors Storage: IP NAS or FC SAN
To Blades & Back
Switch
Cooling N+1Fans/Cooling Modules
Processor Blades Modules

(6-24 typically) Power: N+1Power Supplies

Blade
Control
Panel

USB Ports,
CD/Floppy I/F

~ GbE Switch supports
Trunking/Port Aggregation
Flow Control
Gbit QoS Packet Prioritization
Memory Ethernet SNMP/RMON
Systems I/F
Micro- DDR w IGMP/BOOTP/TFTP
Monitor
Processors ECC ……
Module
© 2003 Source: IMEX Research

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Blades - TCO Savings & ROI
3 Year TCO Savings
TCO Savings in..
Rack vs. Blade Servers
OPEX
100% Staff/
Support
Maintenance/ 25%
80% Downtime
54%
Facilities/
% Contribution

60% Power
67% OPEX 21%

40%
46% CAPEX
Networking
19%
20% Servers
33% 46% Storage
CAPEX 25% Infrastructure
13%
0%
1 SW
Rack Servers Blade2Servers Infrastructure
22%
Data: IMEX Research 2004 IMEX

Management – Blade Servers

Ultra-dense HW
• Density

20 %
• Power Consumption
20% • Cable Management

Management
• Platforms integration:
 Hardware
 Software

80%
 Network
 Management
• Scalability
80 %

• Security
• Manageability
• Lowest TCO

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Blade Server Management Software

Automation

Provisioning Automatically Maintains
Application Service
Level Objectives

Virtualization Provisions the Resources
Required to Deliver a
Business Service

Allocates, Monitors,
and Meters the Usage
of Pooled Resources

IMEX

Blade Server Management Software

Enterprise Mgmt SW
(HPOV,IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol,Sun MC..)

Rack
Rack Mgmt

Chassis
Chassis Mgmt
Backplane
Blade
Mgmt
Blades

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Blades Management Architecture

Chassis

Shared Modules
MC

Mgmt Srvr Mgmt Bus
IP Bus

MC MC MC MC MC MC
Chassis Mgmt Bl.

Compute Blade

Compute Blade

Compute Blade
Network Blade

Storage Blade

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State of Interconnect Fabrics

Latency/hop

1 ms EHERNET - LAN/SAN/MAN/WAN
FE GbE IB - CLUSTER
ATM IBM/SP MPP
100 us
Servernet Dolphin SMP/NUMA
T3E
Myrinet SGI
GbE Quadrics Mellanox
w/TOE
10 us FJ/Synfinity
Synfinity-1
GbE 10GbE
w/RDMA Scali w/RDMA

1us
100 Mb/sec 1Gb/sec 10 Gb/sec
Bandwidth/link

IMEX

Industry Standard Servers Market (x86 based)

12,000

Blades
10,000 Rackmounts
Pedestals
8,000
Units (K)

6,000

4,000

2,000

0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

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Blade Servers Market Opportunity

WW Blade Servers
Market Opportunity
(cum 2004-2008)
Factory Rev $B

Revenues ~ $24 Billion
Units ~ 9 Million

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

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iSCSI on roadmap of storage vendors

US Market - SBC & xTCA Revenues

800
700
US Revenues $M

600 cPCI SBC
cPCI SBC
500 w Blades Impact
400
300
200
xTCA Blades
100
0
1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007
IMEX

IP Telecom Server Blades

ATCA Server Blades Forecast

7,000
Signaling
6,000
Core
Edge
5,000
Access

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,000

-
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
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Blade Servers: Vendor Positioning Index
(As of Jan.2005 - See IMEX Blade Servers Report 2005 for new data & indexing metrics)
Strategy (Potential)

IBM

Fujitsu Siemens

NEC Intel HP
Dell

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Tatung Egenera
Sun

Verari
Linux Networx
Appro Rackable Sys

Delivery (Success) IMEX

Blade Servers – Low Cost Suppliesr?
Mitac Tatung

Hitachi

Tatungt

3Up Syst
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Storage Market Requirements

FC SAN, Existing Deployed
IP SAN (Block) Storage Networks
(FCP & FICON) (Block and File)
Enterprise

Co lti-P ace
Scalability

Mu nter
Data

nv rot
&I
Center

erg oc
FUNCTIONS

IP SAN
COST

en ol
f
(Block or File) “SAN in a Can”

ce
Departmental Small
(iSCSI) (Block & File)
Medium Business
Simplified Use and
(SMB/SME)
NAS Install
File Workgroup
(NFS & Low Cost
CIFS) Min. Features
Easy to Use
Desktop SOHO and Mobile
Self-Installable

Performance and capacity alone are no longer distinguishers
attributes between enterprise and distributed storage

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iSCSI on roadmap of storage vendors

SAN iSCSI NAS
(Fibre
COST

(IP) (IP)
Channel)
•iSCSI delivers low-cost Networked Storage
–Higher availability,Increased usage
High End
–Centralized management,Storage functionality
FC & iSCSI

Mid-Tier
FC & iSCSI
Mid-Tier
NAS & iSCSI

Entry
FC & iSCSI
SERVICE LEVEL

IMEX

Enterprise Market is now cost conscious

100%

90%
SATA
80%

70%

60%
SAS
50%

40%

30%
FC
20%

10% P_SCSI
0%
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

IMEX

The iSCSI SAN

Client
Workstations
Client requests data from App Server
LAN
Ethernet Header IP TCP DATA CRC
Ethernet
Switches

Application &
DB Servers
(iSCSI Initiator) iSCSI-equipped App Server (“initiator”)
requests data from an iSCSI storage (“target”)
SAN Ethernet CRC
IP TCP iSCSI SCSI DATA
GigE Header
Switches

Storage Arrays
(iSCSI Target)
To Other LANs,
Servers or IP SANs

IMEX

Ethernet - TCP + iSCSI Offload Engines

Typical 1GbE NIC
File System File System

Host
File System

SW
Volume Manager Volume Manager
Volume Manager
SCSI Device Driver SCSI Device Driver
SCSI Device Driver
iSCSI iSCSI iSCSI

Adapter
TCP TCP TCP

IP IP IP

Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet

Host CPU

HBA Firmware

HBA Hardware
IMEX

Future: IP Storage Management on a chip

Host Services Integration Storage
Provisioning
File system monitoring Storage provisioning Win, LINUX, Solaris Layer

IP SAN Management
Management Management of MultiPath IO Supp Security
IP SAN
Console iSCSI HBAs and Failover (iSNS, CHAP, SRP) Management
Layer
Virtualization Mirroring Snapshot Fail-Over

iSCSI Target Management Appliance
LVM, Error Handling, SCSI Daemon, API Interoperability
Service
Layer
HW Acceleration: TOE, iSCSI Offload, IPsec

IMEX

Go-to-market: Channels of Distribution
Industry Structure

Manufacturers Channels of Distribution Vertical Markets
Medical
Disk & Tape Drives & Host Bus Adapters

F1000 Telecom

Govt.
HA + Ntwk + System Mgmt SW
&
Servers OEM
Components - Chips & Boards ...

RAID Large ISPs

Insurance
Contllrs Clusters

Finance

Manufacturing
Lg. Sys
VIA IPC Integrator
SANs
VARS Med

Hubs
LANs
NICs Sml SI/VAR
WANs
Switches
Distributor VADS
Internet Sml
Routers Backbone

IMEX

Major Players in Infrastructure Convergence

Networks Storage

Servers
IMEX

Potential for Blades - Everywhere
xSP IntrDet Enterprise
VPN

IntrDet
WebServices App.Servers
DBServers
IntrDet

Supplier/Partner
ISP IntrDet

ISP Internet ISP
Core
Edge Optical
Networking
ISP
Access
ISP
ISP
Remote Office
IntrDet

IntrDet

Cable Modem
56K DSL
MP3 VOD
Wireless Cellular Research All rights Reserved
Home Networks
©2000-2005 IMEX
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Holy Grail - Future Intelligent IP Infrastructure

Present Data Center Infrastructue Future Infrastructue

Clients

LAN Ntwk
Mgmt WS

Application & Intelligent
DB Servers Uniform
IP-based
Infrastructure

Mgmt
SAN Storage WS
Mgmt WS

Storage
Sub Systems

IMEX

Emerging IP Based Infrastructure

Servers Storage

IP
Networks Infrastructure Telecom

Virtualization
Provisioning
Automation

IMEX

Server Architectures: Competitive Technologies
Price/Performance Performance: SMP vs. Clustering
Serial vs.Parallel Computing
Multinode
Clusters

Performance - tpc
SMP
w/8 way
MPP
w/4 way
Serial
Price

16 32
MF 8
N-way SMP
6
4

2

Clustering i

Performance Number of Processors

Scalable Perf. vs. Availability
Scalable Performance

MPP
Clustering

SMP FT

UniP
Availability
IMEX

3 Tier Computing Architecture

Web App
SAN
Web DB

Storage Network
Storage Network
Web App
Internet SAN
Web
Edge Core DB
Optical
Web
App
NAS
Web
Caching, Proxy, FW
Security, IDS, DNS Web DB
Load Balancing … App
Servers Web NAS

Tier-1 Tier-2 Tier-3
Edge Computing Applications Data Center

IMEX

WW IT Spending Levels Off …

Worldwide IT` Spending & Growth ($B)
$B Average %
1,400 12
IT Spending IT Growth 10
1,200
8
1,000
6
800 4

600 2
0
400
-2
200
-4
0 -6
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

IMEX

WW Server Management Costs Rise

WW Server Spending : Acquisition vs. Management
Installed Base
Spending
(M Units)
($B)
200 35
180
30
160
140 25
120 20
100
80 15
60 10
40
5
20
0 0
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

New Server spending cost of m gm t. & adm in. installed Base Server (M unit)

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Admin Cost % of Total Cost Increasing

TCO - Server Connections to FC SANs
$40

$35 $34K

$30

$25
Acq. Cost
$K

$20

$15 $13K
Admin. Cost
$10
$6.5K
$5
$6K
$-
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

IMEX

HA End to End Internet with Security Products

xSP IntrDet Enterprise
VPN

IntrDet
WebServices App.Servers
DBServers
IntrDet

Supplier/Partner
ISP IntrDet

ISP Internet ISP
Core
Edge Optical
Networking
ISP
Access
ISP
ISP
Remote Office
IntrDet

IntrDet

Cable Modem
56K DSL
MP3 VOD
Wireless Cellular Research All rights Reserved
Home Networks
©2000-2005 IMEX
IMEX

Corporate Data Usage

Nearline
Storage IMEX

Next Generation
Servers

Anil Vasudeva
408-268-0800
IMEX
RESEARCH.COM
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Servers - Competitive Price/Performance

Competitive Analysis: tpmC vs. $/tpmC
150,000
Compaq Dell Fujitsu
HP IBM Sun

Average
100,000
tpmC

50,000

0
$- $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 $300 $350

$/tpmC

IMEX

Market Directions

 Market bifurcation in the near term (2005-2006)
 – Business Computer Market continue to migrate to Windows Servers
 2003 from UNIX & Mainframes (HE Computers >$250K ASP)
 – High Performance Computing (15% of market now to grow rapidly)
 initially the domain of Linux
 HPC will embrace Business Computing (2006-08)
 – Over time some applications such as Wall Street Financial
 OLAP/DSS, Health/Bioinformatics will migrate towards Business
 Computing
 Linux will take market share from Unix vs. Windows
 because of the similarities between between Linux & UNIX
 before it has any discernible impact on Windows 2003


IMEX

Targeted Price/Performance

Measure tpmC Price $ $/tpmC
Best 5 ($/tpmC) 208,779 977,149 5
All Itanium 188,816 1,053,964 6
All Average 60,341 $ 1,285,309 $ 100
Sun Solaris 18,821 1,748,527 112
All IBM AIX 61,180 1,613,784 179
All Non Intel CPU 44,850 1,798,298 186

IMEX

Positioning – HE Enterprise Servers
Enterprise Servers
Delivery Strategy Index Product IA-32/x ItaniuRISC Others
3.4 2.5 8.5 HP NonStop x
2.2 4.3 9.5 Bull Escala x
4.3 2.2 9.5 FSC BS2000 x x
2.8 3.4 9.5 Bull GCOS x
5.2 3.2 16.6 Unisys Clearpath x x
6.1 3.3 20.1 NCR x
5.4 5.2 28.1 IBM iSeries x
7.4 5.3 39.2 SunFire x
5.2 7.6 39.5 Unisys Orion ES7000 x x
8.1 5.8 47.0 IBM zSeries x
6.0 8.5 51.0 Fujitsu Prim epow er x
7.8 7.6 59.3 HP9K/Integrity x x
9.1 6.9 62.8 IBM pSeries x

IMEX

Positioning - Midrange Servers
Midrange Servers
Delivery Strategy Index Product IA-32/x ItaniuRISC Others
1.7 2.8 4.8 Bull Escala x
1.5 7.0 10.5 Egenera BladeFram e x
1.5 8.2 12.3 Bull NovaScale x
2.7 4.8 13.0 Bull Express x
4.6 3.1 14.3 IBM iSeries x
2.2 7.4 16.3 Stratus ftServer x
5.3 4.1 21.7 IBM xSeries x
3.6 6.3 22.7 NEC Express x x
4.7 6.0 28.2 Fujitsu Prim ergy x x
4.0 8.3 33.2 Fujitsu Prim epow er x
5.9 6.2 36.6 Sunfire x
6.8 5.5 37.4 IBM pSeries x
4.6 8.2 37.7 Unisys Aries ES7000 x x
5.7 7.9 45.0 HP9K/Integrity x x
8.7 6.0 52.2 Dell Pow erEdge x x
8.2 7.2 59.0 HP ProLiant x
7.7 7.9 60.8 IBM xSeries x x
IMEX

$-
$10,000
$20,000
$30,000
$40,000
$50,000
$60,000

IBM x366 4w Cranford

$19,770
3.66/1M Single Core

IBM x365 4w Gallatin
3.0/4M Single Core
$29,980

Dell PE6850 4w Potomac
$26,808

3.33/8M Single Core

HP DL580 G3 4w Potomac
$32,607

3.33/8M Single Core

HP DL585 4w Opteron
2.6GHz/1M Single core
$24,816
((4 socket - Single/Dual Core Configs)

HP DL585 4w Opteron
2.2GHz/2M Dual core
$31,416

Sun Fire V40z 4w Opteron
Street Pricing - 4way / 8way Systems

2.2GHz/2M Dual core
$37,244

HP rx4640 4w Itanium2
1.6/9M Single Core
$61,820
Dual Core leveraging 4way/8way Servers

IMEX

Niche Opportunities

Niche Market Opportunity Gaps

• Address OLTP Market Gap - Performance DB market
• Large Memory Needed to Address Performance DB &
Business Intelligence Markets
• Leverage In-Memory DB (Oracle’s acquisition of Times Ten)
• Integrated 3-Tier Solution vs. Standalone SMPs
• Mix & Match IA-32 & IA-64
- Investment Protection
- Address Value & Performance Markets Concurrently
• Geo Load Balancer: BC & DR Markets Covered

IMEX

Server Targets
CUSTOMER
Total Solutions
Support

TECHNOLOGY PRICE
DUAL/MULTI $/tpmC
CORE
32/64-BIT INVESTMENT
HIGH PROTECTION
AVAILABILITY Servers 32/64b Mix/Match
+ Migration Tools
99.999%

OPEX
Power
PERFORMANCE Management
In Memory DB
Middleware

Servers/Storage/Networking
Products & Support
IMEX

Major markets in Cluster Volume Servers

100.0%
Volume Servers (Bladed )
<$25K ASP
80.0%

60.0% Volume Servers (Non-Bladed)
ASP <$25K

40.0%
Midrange
ASP $25-250K
20.0%

0.0%
High End ASP >$250K
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

IMEX

IT Infrastructure, Sys.Mgmt & Applications

Broad
CAD/

Band
ERP

CRM
SCM

CAM

HPC

EAI
Data High Ntwk
OS Security
Mgmt Availability Mgmt
IMEX

IT Spending by Vertical Markets

WW IT Spending by Vertical Industry

Transportation
6%

Mfg-Com puter
Energy
Related Education
6%
6% 2%
Manufacturing Telecom
Health
10% 1%
6% Utilities
2% Defence
Financial 1%
11% Services
14%
Media 2%
2%

Governm ent Metals/Mining
12% other 1%
9%
Construction
Retail Wholesale
1%
18%
Misc
1%

IMEX

Server Spending in Vertical Markets

WW Spending on Servers
Retail Wholesale
Financials
Manufacturing
Energy
Transportation
Mid-Computer Related
Health
Telecom
utilities
Defense
Services
Media
Government
Education
Metals/Mining
Construction OLTP DSS HPC Streaming
Misc
Hospitality

0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 10000

IMEX

Go-to-Market Startegies

Servers Market
Size & Growth ‘04-’05 $1B+ Server Budget > $1.5 M
10,229 Firms Direct Sales to Large SI/EU
$ 23.2 B Large Custom Solutions

2.8 % Enterprise

$100 M to $1B
Server Budget $50 K-$1.5 M
Mid-Size Enterprise VAD/VAR facilitated by ITG
$ 17.4 B 67,873 Firms SI/ Express Solutions & Packages
9.5 %
$25M to $100 M
Medium Business
185,794 Firms
Server Budget $5K - $50K
$ 7.8 B $1M to $25 M
Retail, Volume Resell, VARS
Standard SMB Products
12.8 % Small Business
3,577,862 Firms

IMEX

Technology Comparison

SATA SAS Fibre Channel

Half-duplex Full-duplex with Full Duplex
Link Aggregation

Performance 1.5 Gb/s Introduction 3.0Gb/s Introduction 2.0Gb/s
3.0Gb/s in 2004/5 6.0Gb/s in 2006/7 4Gb/s in 2004/5
> 8m external cable > 8m external cable 15m external cable

Connectivity One device >128 devices 127 devices
(multiple devices with port (16,384 max)
multiplier)

No peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer

Single-port HDDs Dual-port HDDs Dual-port HDDs

Availability Single-host Multi-initiator Multi-initiator

Driver Software transparent Software transparent Software transparent

Model with Parallel ATA with Parallel SCSI with Parallel SCSI

IMEX

OLTP
Transaction
10 K Processing
eCommerce

Data DSS (RAID - 0, 3)
(RAID - 1, 5, 6)
1K Warehousing
IOPs Visual DB
(Latency)

100 Scientific Computing
NIC
Imaging
TP
10 Audio Streaming
HPC
Video
1
1 5 10 50 100 500
*IOs per sesond for a required response time ( ms) MB/sec
IMEX

WW Server EU Revenues by OS

$70

$60
Other
$50 OS390
EU Rev. $B

OS400
UNIX
$40 UNIX
Window s
$30 Linux
Netw are
$20
Windows

$10
Linux
$-
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

IMEX

WW High Availability Server Market

WW HA Servers Market
$40

$35
Other
$30 zSeries
EU Rev $B

$25 i-Series

$20
UNIX
$15

$10

$5 Window
$0 Linux
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

IMEX

Open System Shipments dominate
Server OS Shipments - New Licenses

10000

9000

8000

7000 Linux
(Paid)
6000
Units (000s)

5000

4000 Win 2003
W2K
3000 Server
NT
2000

1000 UNIX Total

NetWare
0
MF
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
IMEX

Interconnect Price/Performance Hierarchy

High MB/s,
Low Latency,
Price/Port Quadrics

Myrinet

InfiniBand

10 GbE w/ RDMA, TOE

10 GbE w/ TOE

1 GbE
Market Size
Microsoft Chimney Software 2004-07

IMEX

Tiered Storage by Price/Performance

Desktop PC Servers Large Enterprise
Entry NAS Midline Storage SAN & NAS
Workstations Mainstream NAS/SAN

PC SAS SAS HBA/RAID FC RAID
Chipset HBA
Drive
Interface SATA SAS SAS

Drive
Types 5400 RPM 10K RPM
7200 RPM 15K RPM

SATA Drive SAS Drive FC Drive
Source:Maxtor

IMEX

Unified Server & Storage Mgmt
Enterprise Management
HP/OV IBM/Tivoli BMC/Patrol CA/Unicenter MS/MOM

Systems Management
Auto Inventory Distributed Event Exception
Discovery Mgmt Tools Notification Reporting

Capacity Security Matrix Controls Tools
Management Policies Integration Repository Definition

Auto Performance Workload Topology Performance Provisioning
Discovery Management Management Management Management Manager
Blades Syst VM Cluster Conf Chargeback File System Policy
Management Management Management Management Manager Manager
Patch Partition 3rd Party SW Oracle View Exchange Custom
Automation Management Management Management Management Reports Mgr

Server Storage

IMEX

Unified Mgmt Stack
Application Management
Change & Configuration Suite
Identity Manager
Automation Manager
Service Level Manager

Infrastructure Management
System Manager
Blade System Management Suite
Virtual Server Management
Server & Storage Unified Management

Elements Management
Standards/Interoperability
SNMP/SMI-S/WBEM/WMI/SMASH/SOAP/XML
Storage / Disk Arrays / Tape Products & Vendors
HDS, IBM, Cisco, SunBrocade, EMC, McData, NetApp, qLogic,
Servers / Blades Products & Vendors
IBM, HP, Sun, Fujitsu, NEC, Unisys, Intel
IMEX

Storage Mgmt Tools

• Console: Main console for open, heterogeneous SAN Mgmt
• Provisioning Wizard: Wizard to provision Hetero Host to Storage Arrays
• Charge Back Mgmt: Asset based Chargeback Mgmt
• Data Base Monitor: Oracle DB Availability & Performance Views
• EMail Monitor: Exchange Availability & Performance Views
• Enterprise SW Monitor: SAP Elements Availability & Performance Views
• Capacity Mgmt: Filesystem scanning for reclaiming wasted space
• One View: Consolidated reporting of multiple storage/server instances
• Report Template Designer: Custom Mgmt Console & Reports for infrastructure

IMEX

Defense System
• launch readiness

Health Systems 4

Time to • Emergency Syst
Recover • Computer Dispatch
• Patient Monitoring
from System
Failure Cost
Navigation Syst 4

• Shipping, Satellites.
- to
eliminate
Reservation Syst 4

• Air Travel
(Fail-over SPOFs • Auto Rentals
Time)
Banking Services 4

Manufacturing 3 • ATM Transactions
• EFT
Utility Opns 3
Financial Srvcs 4

Telecom 3 • Securities Trading
Messaging • NumberPortability Telecom 3
• Customer Srvcs
Systems 2 • Call Location
• e-mail Internet 3

Retailing 2 • eCommerce
Office Sys • POS
• HR 1
• Shipping

Availability 99.0% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999% 99.9999%
Availability Level HAL- 2 HAL- 3 HAL- 4 HAL- 5 HAL- 6
Downtime/yr. ~ 4 days ~ 8 Hrs ~ 1 Hr. ~ 5 mts. 30 sec
Time/Outage ~ 4 Hrs ~ 30 mts. ~ 5 mts. ~ 1 mt. ~ 10 sec

Outages/yr. 24 16 12 5 3
IMEX

Remote
Intranet Replicated
Server Cluster
Host Fault- Cluster/
Disk Connect Tolerance Apps Fault-
Fault- Fault-Toleran Tolerance
Fault-Tolern • Shared Storage
Tolerance • Shared • Continuous Replicated
• Controller FO Resources • Cluster SW • Remote Copy -
• RAID (Disk • Hot Spare Disks • Server FO • Oracle OPS • Synchronized
Fail Over) • Redundant Power • AutoRecovery • Databases Data Mirroring
• Write Hole Supplies & Fans • Transaction Replication • Zonal Disaster
• Hot Swap - Disks • Redundant NICs Recovery • Auto Restart Boot Tolerant
• ECC Memory • NIC Failover • Dedicated Monitoring • Router Path
• Power Outage • Hot Swap Cards Server Redundancy
• SNMP Alerts •Load Balancing

Single Server Local Server/Cluster Remote Cluster

Single Site Multi-site
Systems Management

IMEX

System Cost vs. High Availability

z/390
$10 M Sysplex
Avg. S/390
S/390
Syst z/390 MVS
MVS
IBM
IBM
Price
Propl
Propl
$1 M Prop.
Sun-Solaris
Sun-Solaris
HP-UX
HP-UX
IBM
IBM IBM-AIX
IBM-AIX
$100 K Clustered NCR-SVR4
NCR-SVR4 Bull
Bull Dell
Dell
UNIX AS400 Fujitsu
Fujitsu HP
HP
IBM
IBM NEC
NEC
Siemens
Siemens Stratus
Stratus
UNIX
Cluster Win Win
$10K Linux
Clustered Linux

0.1 1 10 100 Downtime
Hrs./Syst/Yr
99.999% 99.99% 99.9% 99.0%

System Availability
IMEX

HA Servers Market
Rev $M by HA Level

$35,000

$30,000

$25,000
HAL 2-5
$20,000

$15,000 HAL 3-5
$10,000
All Servers
$5,000
HAL 4-5 Genaral Availability HAL 2-5
High Aavailability HAL3-5
$-
HAL 5 Continuous Availabilty HAL4-5
2002

2003

CarrierClass Availability HAL-5
2004E

2005E

2006E

2007E

IMEX

WW High Availability EU Revenues
WW HA Servers
Revenues $M by HA Level

$ 35,000

$ 30,000
HAL- 5
(99.999% Availability, Downtime <5 minutest / yr)

$ 25,000
HAL- 5
99.999% HAL- 4
(99.99% Availability, Downtime < 1 Hours/yr)
EU Rev $M

$ 20,000
HAL- 4
99.99%
$15,000 HAL- 3
(99.9% Availability, Downtime <9 Hours / year)
HAL- 3
$10,000 99.9%
HAL - 2
(99% Availability, Downtime <3.5 days/yr)
$ 5,000 HAL- 2
99%

$-

IMEX
2002 2003 2004E 2005E 2006E 2007E

Price Erosion HA Servers
High Availability Servers
Price Erosion By HA Level

$250

$200

HAL-5
$150
ASP $K

$100
HAL-4

$50
HAL-3
HAL-2
$-
IMEX

Annual Downtime (Hrs)

0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18

IBM RS/6000

HP UNIX Cluster

SunCluster

HP Alpha64

HP Alpha/VMS Cluster

IBM Mainframe

IBM MF/Sysplex

Tandem

Stratus
Real World Availability
Real World – Availability Data

IMEX

PREDICTIVE REACTIVE
Stop an outage before Recover the environment
it happens as quickly as possible

Time

TIME-OF-FAILURE
Detect an outage and attempt
to switch to alternate resources
with minimal user disruption

IMEX

Blade Servers Market Opportunity
$12
WW Blade Servers
$10 Market Opportunity
(cum 2004-2008)
Factory Rev $B

$8 Revenues ~ $24 Billion
Units ~ 9 Million
$6

$4

$2

$-
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

©2000-2005 IMEX Research All rights Reserved Data: IMEX Research 2005
IMEX

Blade Servers by Market Segments

WW Blade Servers Market
Revenues by Major Target Market

$10,000

$ 8,000
Factory Rev $M

$ 6,000

$ 4,000

$ 2,000

$-
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
IP T e le c o m E nt e rpris e s ( Lg & S M B )
H igh P e rf o rm a nc e C o m p. IS P s
E m be dde d C o m put ing

IMEX

IP Telecom Server Blades

Telecom Server Blades Forecast

7,000
Signaling
6,000
Core
Edge
5,000
Access

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,000

-
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
IMEX

High Performance Computing

IMEX

Grid Computing

IMEX
RESEARCH.COM
IMEX

Grid Computing

• Grid is a Catch-all Marketing Term
• Means different things to different constituencies
• Desktop Cycle-Stealing
• Manahed HPC Clusters
• Virtualization of Data Center Resources
• Outsourcing to “Utility Data Centers”
• Multiple, opposing requirements
• Compute-intensive applications want to ship data tp idle processor resources
• Data-Intensive applications want to ship computations to appropriate large data
repositories

• An evolving entity with many pulls & pushes
• Economics, Feasibilities, management of hetero vs homogeneous HW

IMEX

Grid Challenges: Hype vs. Reality

• Cost of Local Grids (LAGs) – ala Blades
cheaper than Wide Area Grids (WAGs)
• Computing Cost $1000 > 1 cpu day (10 Terops) =$1
• 10 TB network transfer Cost = $1
• Internet BW cost $100/mbps/mo > 1GB network xfr cost ~$1
• Result: Local HPC Cluster is 10,000 cheaper than WAN Communication

• MPI Style Apps work well in LAN Clusters but
uneconomical in WAN
• Data analysis best done by moving programs to data not data to programs
• Small data, high compute applications woek well across internet
• Internet is not the CPU back plane

IMEX

Grids – Homogeneous vs Heterogeneous

IMEX

Grid Services Architecture & Standards

IMEX

Grid Computing – Across 3 Tiers

Grid Control
Storage
Databases
Application Servers

IMEX

HA Telecom Infrastructure

HA End User
HA
HA HA ISP Enter-
SW VARs/SI
Subsyst WSB Tech Navisite … prises
Cmpnts EMC,MTI,
Acropolis
Trillium, STK, NetApp
Lynx, … …
Microsoft
Large
WindRiver (<1000)
SteelEye Telecom Carriers Medium
… AT&T
Equipm Bell Atlantic (100-1000)
BellSouth Service Small
Mfrs
HA
GTE Provider (<100 emp)
Nynex
Systems Cisco, SBC
SW Bell
HA Siemens, Sprint
National Public
Fujitsu, AOL,
HW HP, U.S. West
Pacific Bell, Offices
Sun, Lucent, ..
Cmpnts Nortel, NTT
Mindspring, (Govt,
Motorola, IBM, AT&T …
Texas Micro, Motorola, Ericsson,
Regional Educ.)
Lucent, Stratus, Nokia, Backbone NetCom, …
… NEC, … UUNet, Specialized
…
MCI/World . NTT/Verio, …

IMEX

Target: OEMs

Channel Companies
Servers IBM, HP, Sun, Dell, NEC, Hitachi, SNI, SGI,
Unisys.

Storage Subsystems EMC, STK, LSI Logic, MTI, Network Appliances
… (Independents)

Data Networking Cisco, 3COM, Lucent/Ascend, Nortel/Bay
Networks, New
Bridge, Cabletron, Intel, HP, Dell, IBM …
Public Data Cisco, 3COM, Lucent, Nortel, …
Networking

Telecom Equipment Nortel, Lucent, Toshiba, NEC, Siemens, Mitel …
Wireline

Telecom Equipment Motorola, Lucent, Nokia, Ericsson, Nortel,
Wireless Siemens,
NEC, Qualcomm, Panasonic…
IMEX

Target: HA VARS/Distributors

Channel Companies
Distributors Ingram Micro, Tech Data Corp., CHS Electronics,
Merisel Inc., Inacom Corp., Pinacor, SYNNEX
Information Tech., Access Graphics, KeyLink
Systems, Gates/Arrow Distributing etc.

VARs Anixter Inc., Ameridata, Compucom Systems Inc.,
Lockheed Martin Federal, Future Now Inc., LMB,
CIC Systems Inc. etc.
(High Availability Telecom/Networks)

System Consultants Anderson Consulting, Cambridge Technology
partners, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Bain,
ATKearney, Mitchell Madison, Arthur Anderson etc.

IMEX

Target: Disty Channels
Channel Companies
System Integrators
Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM / North America
Services, Computer Sciences Corp., GTE Corp., Martin
Marietta / Information Group, Digital Equipment. / Digital
Consulting, Unisys Corp., Science Applications Int’l Corp.,
TRW Inc./ Systems Integration Group, Hewlett-Packard
Co./ Professional Services Div., ENTEX / Information
Services, SHL Systemhouse Inc. etc

System Consultants Anderson Consulting, Cambridge Technology partners, Price
Waterhouse Coopers, Bain, ATKearney, Mitchell Madison,
Arthur Anderson etc.

IMEX

Vendor Affiliations

Middleware:
BEA, Borland, Pramati,
CORBA:
Borland, IONA
High Availability:
SteelEye, Stratus
FileSystem:
Sistina, IBIX, Polyserve
Management Software:
Novadigm, Altiris, Opsware, Marimba, ON Technology,

IMEX

Vendor Affiliations

Database:
Oracle, Jboss, Caucho,
EAI:
TIBCO, Sterling, Vitria, webMethods, Sonic, SAP, Axway, BEA
Web Enabled Application Delivery:
F5, Radware, Netscaler, <Redline>, Inkra, Array Ntwks,
Pivia, Fineground, Nortel
SW Distribution Management:
<Novadigm>, Altiris, Opsware, Marimba, ON Technology,

IMEX

Future Intelligent IP Infrastructure

Present Data Center Infrastructue Future Infrastructue

Clients

LAN Ntwk
Mgmt WS

Application & Intelligent
DB Servers Uniform
IP-based
Infrastructure

Mgmt
SAN Storage WS
Mgmt WS

Storage
Sub Systems

IMEX

Future Computing: Processes Driven

Initiator Initiator Initiator
Application Application Application

Old model New model
Hardware is the initiator Processes are the initiators
HBA ID
Initiator

Allows applications to move storage
wherever they are - storage no longer
cares where they are

Target

IMEX

Future: Application-Driven Storage Virtualization


Moving from storage ...to storage associated
associated with with processes
servers...

Allows applications to move
storage from the pool,
wherever they are

IMEX

Future - IP Based Infrastructure

Servers Storage

IP
Networks Infrastructure Telecom

Virtualization
Provisioning
Automation

IMEX

Architecting Next Generation
Enterprise Network Storage

Anil Vasudeva
408-268-0800
IMEX
RESEARCH.COM
IMEX

Agenda

• Strategic Storage Plan
 Managing Hurdles (Knowledge, Budget, Management)
• Data Protection
 Issues (Existing Techniques/Pains)
 Techniques (Mirroring, Snapshots, Replication, CDP)
• Lowering TCO
 Tiered Storage (Aligning Cost of Stg. w Value of Data)
 Standardization/Interchangeability (Investment Protect,Virtualize)
 Autonomics (Lights Out Management)
• Futures
 Information Classification & Mgmt (Reference Metadata Engines)

IMEX

Data Storage Hurdles
 Budget Mandates
 CEOs Mandate for CIOs: Do more for less
 Migrate to Nex-Gen Infrastructure while protecting existing IT investments
 Justify ROI/TCO (Acquisition + Operating Expenses)

 Knowledge of Emerging Technologies
 Keeping pace with new technologies, products, standards & management
 Avoiding Pain Points - Backing up whole files, despite very little changed
 Full restores when only a few bytes need to be put back
 Management
• Managing Hodge-podgy growth and complexity
 Standardizing on few configurations to reduce complexity
 Establishing Data protection, Business Continuance/Disaster Recovery
 ILM/Regulatory Compliance
 Implementing Virtualization, Provisioning & Lights-out Storage Automation

“Manage your data before it manages you”
IMEX

Data Explosion > Storage Revenues

10 30
9
Storage Revenues 25
8

Storage Revenues $B
Petabytes of Storage

7
20
6
5 15
Normal PB
4 PB with Accelerators*
10
3
2
5
1
0 0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
*Realtime Data, VoIP, HPC, Grids, WebServices/XML

IMEX

Storage Data -Types & Characteristics
Online Midline Nearline Offline/Vaulted

Dynamic Data Reference Data Buffered Data Recoverable Data
Current Business Aged, Reference data Centralized backup Archived for BC/DR
Critical Active data - Images, records, BU emails - Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape - Local, - Remote
Hi-transaction data Unalterable - regulatory Staging to tape
% On Response Price

• High $/GB • Moderate $/GB • Med to Low $/GB • Low $/GB
Time

• Milliseconds • 1/10thsec to sec • Minutes to hours • Hours to days
Disk

• 50% • 35% • 15% • Tape

Source:Maxtor

IMEX

Tiered Storage for Data Life Cycles

Migrate back to high
performance if need be
Volatile
Speed of Access/Frequency of Change

Data
Restored from tape
if need be

Fixed Data

Backup &
Tape Archive
Restore SW

Age of Data/Freq. of Access

IMEX

Data Protection

• Goals Recovery
– Operational Resilience Point

• Designing HA systems to meet
RTO (a function of both type of failure &
recovery technology deployed)

– Business Continuance
• Designing Reliable Data Copy Recovery Point Recovery Time
Objective Objective
systems to meet RPO (point in time to
which data reverts to after an outage & RPO RTO
recovery)
T-1 T0 T+1
– Disaster Proof Processes (Including
planned outages) Time at Time at Time at
which Data which which
– Understanding Business Needs Integrity last Disruptive Recovery is
known Event Complete
• Time to get back online Happens
• Critical Tier 1,-2,-3 applications
• Max sustainable downtime

IMEX

Data Protection Technologies

• Archiving
• Backup
Continuous Data Protectn
• Mirroring
– Asynchronous, Synchronous Snapshots
• Snapshots Mirroring
– Delta Snapshots, Full Snaps/Split
Mirrors Traditional Backup
• Replication Archiving
– Offsite Tape Storage, Host- Host,
Array-Array
– Network based
• CDP

IMEX

Disk Storage Systems Market

25,000

cagr
20,000

NAS NAS: 15%
15,000
Rev $M

10,000
SAN SAN: 13%

5,000

DAS DAS: -10%
0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

IMEX

3 Tier Computing Infrastructure
Application
End-Users  Uniform and ubiquitous physical
Internet Connectivity – “Wire Once”
 Any user to any server via Internet
Tier –1  Any server to any server via the LAN
Network Services:  Any sever to any storage via the SAN
- Web Servers,  Dynamic Logical Binding of…
- Firewalls,
- Load balancers  server network identification
LAN  server OS version
 server application assignment
Tier-2
 application data volumes
Application Services:
- Application Servers  Resulting in
 Application Mobility across servers
 Data mobility across storage
Tier-3
SAN
Data Base Services
- Database Servers
- Storage

Storage
IMEX

iSCSI SAN market on fast track

WW SAN Revenues
$4,500

$4,000

$3,500
IB
$3,000

$2,500
iSCSI
$M

$2,000

$1,500

$1,000 Fibre Channel
$500

$-
2001A 2002A 2003E 2004E 2005E 2006E

IMEX

Tiered Storage Devices by Price/Performance

Desktop PC Servers Large Enterprise
Entry NAS Midline Storage SAN & NAS
Workstations Mainstream NAS/SAN

PC SAS Dual Mode SAS/SATA
SAS HBA/RAID SAS RAID FC RAID
Chipset HBA HBA & RAID
Drive
SAS SATA SAS Dual-Port
Interface SATA
SAS

Drive
Types 5400 RPM 10K RPM
7200 RPM 15K RPM

SATA Drive SAS Drive FC Drive

IMEX

High Availability

IMEX
RESEARCH.COM
IMEX

Application-Driven Storage Virtualization


associated with with application
servers... processes

Old Model New Model
Server Hardware is the Allows applications to
initiator. Storage move storage from the
Drives are the Target virtualized pool, wherever
they may be

IMEX

Blade Servers
State of the Industry 2005
Special Industry Keynote

Anil Vasudeva
IMEX
RESEARCH.COM
408-268-0800
IMEX

High Performance Computing
High Performance Commercial BioInformatics Audio/Video
Computing Visualization Wall Street, DSS On Demand

Rendering & Post-Production
100+ Teraflops Data rate & capacity
Throughput = 1.2 GB/s
Throughput = 100 GB/s texture & polygons Throughput : market


Data:: IMEX Research &
IMEX

An Industry Brief
Modular Computing Brief Series 2004

the rise of
Blade
Computing
IMEX
www.imexresearch.com/bladeservers.html

Scale Up (Consolidated SMP Servers)
Server Market Segmentation - Platforms

Large SMP Clusters
Parallel Sysplex High Availability/
- Scalable Nodes, Hi Perform.Clusters
- Dynamic LPAR - Linux/AIX/Solaris Clusters
- SW Provisioning/VMWare - HPC Clusters
IBM: i890/p690/z990 DELL: PowerEdge 6650
SUN: SunFire 4800, 12K ORACLE: 9iRAC/PE6650

Blade Servers
High Density Rack Mount
- Highly Integrated Dense Form Factor
- Rapid Deployment, Flexible Architect.
RLX: ServerBlade 300i, 800i, HP: 40b, p
FUJITSU: BX300, DELL:1655
IBM: HS20, Sun:

Scale Out (Clustered Blade Servers)
©2000-2003
IMEX

Virtualization – Blade Servers

Virtual
Application
Specific
Clusters

Cluster Virtualization

Physical
Clustered
Blades

IMEX

Blade Server Shipments by CPUs

Blade Server Shipments
by CPUs

4,500
4,000 4-way+
3,500
2-way
Units #K

3,000
2,500 1-way
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
-
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

IMEX

Blades – Market Leaders 2004

Blade Servers 2004
ASP vs. Shipments

$6,000
IBM
IBM
$5,000 HP
$4,000 FJ/FS
ASP ($)

$3,000 Dell
Others
Sun
$2,000 RLX

$1,000

$-
Shipments #K

IMEX

Blade Servers: Vendor Positioning Index
(As of Sep.2004 - See IMEX Blade Servers Report 2005 for new data)
Strategy (Potential)

IBM

Fujitsu Siemens
3UP

NEC
Intel HP

© 2003-05 IMEX Research
Nexcom RLX
Sun Egenera
Tatung
Dell

Supermicro Verari
Linux Networx Appro Rackable Sys

Delivery (Success) IMEX

Future Supply Chain – Blade Servers

IMEX

Price Erosion – Blade Servers
Compaq BL10 Compaq BL20 Compaq BL40
Enclosure Blade Blade Blade Enclosure Blade Blade Blade Enclosure Blade Blade Blade Blade
U 6 -- -- -- 6 -- -- -- 6 -- -- -- --
GHz -- 0.7 0.8 0.9 -- 1.4 2.8 3.06 -- 1.5 2 2 2.8
RAM -- 512 512 512 -- 512 512 512 -- 512 512 1,000 1,000
Source LACC LACC LACC BestOptions ProVantage BestOptions BestOptions Advanced ProVantage TheNerds TheNerds TheNerds HP
Cost 2,499 785 895 895 2,233 950 2,200 2,235 2,233 5,270 6,019 11,884 15,498
Price
Erosion N/A

IBM HS20 IBM JS20 Sun Fire B100s Sun Fire B100x
Enclosure Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade
U 7 -- -- -- -- -- -- U -- -- -- --
GHz -- 3.06 2 2.6 2.8 2.4 3.2 GHz 0.65 0.65 1.53 1.53
RAM -- 512 512 512 512 512 512 RAM 1000 2,000 1000 2,000
Source BestOptions TheNerds BestOptions Infinity Micro BestOptions BestOptions CDW Source CDW CDW CDW CDW
Cost 1,224 2,704 670 1,807 954 783 2,600 Cost 1,795 2,795 2,095 2,795
Price Price
Erosion N/A Erosion

IMEX

Enterprise Market is cost conscious

100%

90%
SATA
80%

70%

60%
SAS
50%

40%

30%
FC
20%

10% P_SCSI
0%
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

IMEX

InfiniBand rears up its head

• Low Cost IB 10G Silicon & Adapters

– Very Low Cost 10G Host Adapters
• Host Channel Adapter ~ $69 in volume
• Switch Si at less than $30 a port in volume

• Compelling price/performance
• InfiniBand vs. 10GE Advantages in
the Short Term
– 15X – 20X price advantage vs 10GE
– 3X – 10X latency advantage
– 10X – 20X CPU utilization advantage
– 3X-5X throughput advantage
• Adoption by most majors
• Products
– InfiniBand to IP
– InfiniBand to FC
*
– Advanced Management
IMEX

TCP + iSCSI Offload Engines

Typical 1GbE NIC
File System File System

Host
File System

SW
Volume Manager Volume Manager
Volume Manager
SCSI Device Driver SCSI Device Driver
SCSI Device Driver
iSCSI iSCSI iSCSI

Adapter
TCP TCP TCP

IP IP IP

Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet

Host CPU

HBA Firmware

HBA Hardware
IMEX

IP SAN Management

Host Services Integration Storage
Provisioning
File system monitoring Storage provisioning Win, LINUX, Solaris

IP SAN Management
Value-add
Management Management of MultiPath IO Supp Security IP SAN
Console iSCSI HBAs and Failover (iSNS, CHAP, SRP)
Features
Virtualization Mirroring Snapshot Fail-Over
Web based GUI

iSCSI Target Management
Appliance
RAID

LVM, Error Handling, SCSI Daemon, API SDK
Service
Layer
HW Acceleration: TOE, iSCSI Offload, IPsec

IMEX

Application-Driven Storage Virtualization


associated with with processes
servers...

Allows applications to move
storage from the pool,
wherever they are

IMEX

New Initiator Model: Processes Driven

Initiator Initiator Initiator

Old model New model
Hardware is the initiator Processes are the initiators
HBA ID
Initiator

Allows applications to move storage
wherever they are - storage no longer
cares where they are

Target

IMEX

(RAID - 1, 5, 6) (RAID - 0, 3)
Transaction
10 K Processing Intranet
• System Files
• OLTP
- Banking • Electronic Data
- Retail Commerce
1K
- Securities • Data Bases Warehousing
- Airlines ... Visual DB
IOPs • OLAP
• Data Warehousing
• Object RDBMS
(latency) Internets • Data Mining
• Visual Data Marts

• Email
100
• Hits/day Scientific Computing
• Numeric Intensive
Computing
• Statistical
Imaging
Modeling
• Chemicals/
• Medical Imaging
• PrePress
Video
10 Fluid Dynamic • CAD/CAM
• Scientific Visualization
Simulations • Geo InfoSystems
• Film/Video
• Geophysical mapping
• Video Editing
• Oil/Gas Exploration
• Animation
• Satellite Telemetry...
• VOD
1
1 5 10 50 100 500
*IOs per sesond for a required response time ( ms) MB/sec
IMEX

Server Market by Application & OS
Servers Market by Application & OS - 2002

$8,000

$7,000
WW Revenues $B$B
$6,000
WW Revenues
WW Revenues $M

$5,000

$4,000

$3,000

$2,000

$1,000
Unix
$- Other O/S
Linux
in g tiv e
oc ess o ra u re Windows
Pr b u ct tu r e t
e ss C ol la ast
r
t ru c por g
sin I nf r I nf ra s S up u ti n en t
Bu S y st eb is io n o mp pm
C lo
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Industry Std. Blocks for Open System Platform

I/O Adapters Midplane
FC Target 3U Chassis
NVRAM
SATA
SATA

Integrated HDD
To 12GB Carriers
DIMM Dual GbE
(16)
Dual CPU
6 High-BW
Xeon™/Opteron™ PCI-X Slots
Processor-Capable
CPU BMC Platform
Management

Baseboard

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Enterprise Market – HDD FF Transitions
100%

80%

3.5" 10K
60%
3.5" 15K
2.5" 10K
40% 2.5" 15K

20%

0%
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

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