Web scale IT - Nutanix
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Nutanix - Web-Scale IT, Web-scale IT is a new approach to designing, deploying and managing infrastructure Find out more: www.unitiv.com/nutanix What Nutanix does is bring the simplicity, agility and rapid scale that web-scale technologies deliver but as a turnkey enterprise solution. Nutanix is building the bridge for enterprise IT to embrace web-scale IT without completely overhauling the way they do things At its core, web-scale IT is about bringing simplicity back to every aspect of deploying and managing a data center.
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Web scale IT - Nutanix
- 1. Web-Scale Converged Infrastructure Presenter Name Date
- 2. 2 Agenda What is Web-scale? Web-scale at Any Scale Nutanix: Web-scale in the Enterprise
- 3. 3 Evolution Of Datacenter Infrastructure 1990s Cloud Generation Client-Server Generation Virtualization Generation Public Cloud x86 2000s 2010> x86 x86 x86 x86 x86 Intelligent Software
- 4. 4 Infrastructure Roadblocks 1. Inherent Complexity 2. Inefficient Silos 3. Unpredictable Scaling
- 5. 5 Web-Scale Datacenters Are Simple, Scalable & Efficient Design Goals • Fractional consumption and predictable scale •No single point of failure • Distributed everything • Always-on systems • Extensive automation and rich analytics Fundamental Assumptions •Unbranded x86 servers: fail-fast systems •No special purpose appliances • All intelligence and services in software • Linear, predictable scale-out
- 6. 6 What We’ve Learned From Web-scale IT Ingredients Benefits Radical Simplicity Business Agility Predictable Scale Cost Efficiency Infrastructure Strategy • Intelligence in software layer • Linear, predictable scale-out • Fractional consumption People and Process • Culture as important as tech • Launch first, optimize later •No technology religion System Design • Non-disruptive rolling upgrades •No single point of failure • Minimal manual intervention
- 7. 7 What Is Web-Scale? A better approach to IT infrastructure pioneered by web companies to achieve unprecedented agility, predictable scale and low TCO Hyper-converged on x86 servers Integrated compute and storage All intelligence in software 100% software-defined Distributed everything Cluster-wide data and services Self-healing system Fault isolation with distributed recovery API-driven automation and rich analytics Data-driven efficiency 100011011100 010010001001 100100100100 1 2 3 4 5 X86 Node
- 8. 8 Benefits of Web-Scale Datacenter Simplicity Hyper-converged on x86 Servers Self-healing System API-based Automation + Rich Analytics Distributed Everything Scale-out without limits All Intelligence in Software Fractional consumption Lower TCO Always-on operation
- 9. 9 Why Web-Scale Is For Everyone Large Enterprise Mid-Market Enterprise SMB Predictable Scale Cost Efficiency Business Agility Service Provider Benefits of web-scale are relevant to all businesses No changes to organization or architecture required No changes to organization or architecture required
- 10. 10 Enterprise Infrastructure With Web-Scale Virtues Public Cloud • Agility • Predictable scale • Lower TCO Web-scale infrastructure with all of the benefits of the cloud Uncompromising Simplicity Speed of Business Unmatched TCO Legacy Infrastructure • SLAs • Privacy and control • Wide range of workloads
- 11. 11 Web-scale Converged Infrastructure Converged compute and storage All intelligence in software Distributed everything Self-healing system Automation and Rich Analytics
- 12. 12 Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS) Virtual Machine/Virtual Disk Virtual Storage Control Virtual Storage Control Flash HDD Enterprise Storage Snapshots, clones, replication, compression, thin provisioning , deduplication Data Management Data locality, tiering, balancing, tunable resilience Hypervisor Agnostic vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V
- 13. 13 Web-scale Infrastructure for all Workloads VDI Branch Office Big Data Business Applications Disaster Recovery
- 14. 14 Predictable Economics and Growth
- 16. 16 Rich and Insightful Analytics Configuration Health Risk Efficiency
- 17. 17 “Nutanix can be regarded as a blueprint for this new class of infrastructure offering.” “So why are we so excited about Nutanix? We believe the company represents the next-generation of IT infrastructure – a converged storage and compute platform uniquely able to cost-effectively power the datacenters of today and tomorrow.” “Converged storage makes SAN look like the mainframe.”
- 18. 18 Gartner Magic Quadrant – Integrated Systems (2014) Strengths “Highly innovative & scalable architecture that is generationally advanced compared with most rivals” “Highly modular design allows easy addition of server & storage resources” “Certified to support a wide range of virtualization, OS & SW stack options” “Impressive client reference list across many verticals & geographies” “Very positive client feedback”
- 19. 19 Broad Customer Adoption Public Sector Manufacturing Retail Education Healthcare SHAJIAO C POWER STATION OF GUANGDONG YUEDIAN GROUP Technology Financial Services Oil & Gas
- 20. 20 Company Facts Built for Long-Term Success Founded in 2009 Experienced leadership team Top-tier investors 600+ customers (mid to large enterprises, gov’t, SPs) Company Mission Revenue Deliver Uncompromisingly Simple Datacenter Infrastructure Solutions Leveraging Web-Scale Technologies
- 21. 21 Q&A Web-scale Infrastructure At Any Scale
- 22. Thank You info@unitiv.com | 877-621-4212
Editor's Notes
- Purpose of the Slide: Talk about the big challenges enterprise customers face today. Establish a baseline that everyone can agree to. Key Points: - Datacenters have become increasingly complex over the years. Every part of the infrastructure lifecycle is complex, from buying and deploying to configuring, managing and scaling infrastructure. - As infrastructure became more complex, IT organizations also became more siloed. You needed storage experts to manage complex network storage and networking experts to manage enterprise network topologies. ITIL processes emerged to deal with the complexity. All this significantly slowed down the pace of IT deployment. Orgs have to trade off doing it right with doing it fast. - As demand for resources (compute, network, storage) goes up, organizations want to be able to add capacity incrementally and predictably. Scale-up (big iron) infrastructure makes it difficult to scale in small increments when needed.
- Purpose: Talk about where and how web-scale IT originated, and what some of the common are between different web-scale data centers Key Points: Web companies like Google and Facebook started pushing the limits of existing infrastructure systems and processes in ways that traditional businesses did not. They needed infrastructure that could support their business requirements (rapid application development cycles, scale on demand, cost containment). They tried using existing infrastructure solutions, but quickly realized that legacy infra was a poor fit for their needs. Over time, these companies developed an alternate approach to IT that enabled them to get past limitations in infrastructure. Some common traits of web-scale IT: Infrastructure built from commodity server hardware pooled together using intelligent software. This allows customers to start small and scale one server at a time – true scale-out The software in the system is distributed across all the nodes. You don’t have central metadata servers or name nodes. You don’t see controller bottlenecks Embarrassingly parallel operations – everything in the system, including storage functions like deduplication and metadata management and system cleanup, is distributed across all nodes. There are no hotspots or bottlenecks, allowing for massive scale Compute and storage sit very close to each other. Data does not have to go back and forth between storage and compute over a network. Data has gravity, so co-locating storage and compute eliminates network bottlenecks and system slowdown Heavy automation eliminates the need for expensive, error-prone manual operations
- Purpose: Summarize what web-scale IT is, its key ingredients and benefits Key Points: Web-scale IT is a new approach to designing, deploying and managing infrastructure At its core, web-scale IT is about bringing simplicity back to every aspect of deploying and managing a data center Web-scale IT has allowed companies to achieve: Greater business agility. For example, being able to quickly spin up dev-test environments to support hundreds of software updates and releases, or getting a Hadoop cluster up for data analytics Predictable scale – this is not just about large scale (e.g., petabytes of storage). It’s more about elasticity, i.e. adding resources predictably when needed Cost efficiency – all about doing more with less and achieving lower TCO with a smaller footprint and fewer admins to manage infrastructure day to day Web-scale IT encompasses changes across infrastructure strategy, organization and system design It’s important to note that web-scale IT is not just about technology. It requires a fundamental shift in the people and processes managing the infrastructure For example, the organizational culture and the lack of silos is as important as the specific tools being used
- Web-scale is a set of architectural principles and technology concepts. Infrastructure built around these principles is called web-scale infrastructure.
- OPTIONAL SLIDE: The green hexagons are benefits while the peripherals are attributes of web-scale infrastructure
- Purpose: Web-scale is not just for web companies. Companies of all sizes can benefit from adopting the principles and technologies of web-scale infrastructure. Key Points: There’s a common misconception that web-scale is all about supporting massive amounts of data and millions of concurrent users. Those are in fact the problems that drove web companies to look for alternatives a few years ago. But at its core, web-scale IT is about simplicity. It is an architectural approach that provides a step-function decrease in costs by eliminating complexity in the data center. In recent years, this approach is becoming relevant to other businesses as they face similar challenges around business agility, unpredictable growth requirements and increasing cost pressures. It’s a fact that businesses of all sizes can benefit from the advantages that web-scale infrastructure offers Turnkey solutions can deliver the benefits of web-scale without requiring businesses to learn new skills or overhaul their IT environments. IT can run standard enterprise applications on these turnkey platforms.
- Purpose: Nutanix delivers the power of web-scale infrastructure to enterprise customers as a turnkey solutions Key Points: What Nutanix does is bring the simplicity, agility and rapid scale that web-scale technologies deliver but as a turnkey enterprise solution Customers can run their diverse application workloads without having to build custom applications Customers don’t have to learn how to use Cassandra, map-reduce, etc. The Nutanix solution does all that under the hood Talk about “controlled disruption” – Nutanix is building the bridge for enterprise IT to embrace web-scale IT without completely overhauling the way they do things
- Key Points: At its core, Nutanix eliminates complexity in the datacenter One of the root causes of complexity is the data storage architecture, specifically the storage network The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform gets rid of the SAN and brings compute and storage together for virtualized environments This approach eliminates network bottlenecks and simplifies the architecture. This is particularly important with flash storage because the network can become a chokepoint for the system With a Nutanix solution, customers can easily add additional compute and storage by adding nodes on the go
- Key Points: Nutanix offers versatile building blocks that customers can deploy for a wide range of applications With the software-defined approach to infrastructure, policies around resilience, data protection, etc. are late-bound in the system The systems coming out of the factory don’t have rigid restrictions and preset configurations, so customers don’t have to buy different solutions for different workloads. The Nutanix solution also natively uses read and write caches, intelligent data tiering and data locality to achieve optimal performance automatically for a variety of workloads.
- Key Points: One of the biggest advantages of Nutanix’s scale-out architecture is linear predictability of scale As you add nodes to a Nutanix cluster, the number of VMs or virtual desktops that can be supported on the cluster grows in a linear, predictable way without limits This is critical because it significantly simplifies buying decisions for scaling, and allows
- Key Points: The power and simplicity of the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform extends to the control fabric as well. Nutanix Prism is a feature-rich, yet radically simple management platform that gives administrators complete control over their clusters The graphical user interface delivers consumer-grade simplicity, while the REST API provides programmatic control over every aspect of infrastructure management.
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- Gartner has published their first-ever Magic Quadrant report for “Integrated Systems,” with Nutanix strongly positioned as an industry visionary. As you can see, the Gartner analysts have recognized Nutanix as having the most compelling vision of all vendors in what has been calculated as a $40B market. To the side here, we have captured a few of the quotes directly from the Gartner report that highlight Nutanix’s success and product strengths. In addition to the strong position for Nutanix, this is a compelling win for web-scale architectures and how the vision of web-scale is transforming how enterprise datacenters are designed, managed and scaled. Ultimately, it continues to disrupt the overall IT vendor landscape. Additional Note if asked about being in the lower right rather than upper right: It’s important to properly interpret this MQ. Typically, readers of Gartner MQ reports immediately focus on the “Leaders” quadrant. This makes good sense for mature markets that are focused on execution with incremental innovation. However, in dynamic segments, such as the one in which Nutanix competes, it is the company with the clearest vision who will ultimately lead in building the next-generation of datacenter infrastructure. This is why Nutanix is extremely proud of its position as the most visionary.
- Incorporated in 2009 Record $172M raised from top-tier investors Core team from Google, Facebook, VMware, NetApp, Oracle, Citrix, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco 100% worldwide channel model Widely recognized as innovative and disruptive Investors include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, SAP Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Riverwood and Battery