The document discusses the impending disruption in data center strategies driven by web-scale technologies such as Hadoop, SDN, and containerization. It emphasizes a shift from traditional siloed applications and optimized infrastructure to distributed architectures that embrace automation and design for failure. The transition aims to improve operational efficiency while adapting to a rapidly changing technological landscape.

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The Coming Disruption to
Datacenter Strategies
Stu Miniman, Sr. Analyst
June 25, 2014
Wikibon
Wikibon.org/SLI
(Software-led Infrastructure)

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Web-scale Leading Disruption
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SOLUTIONS
(typically 100s apps)
HYPER-OPTIMIZED
(limited # apps)

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New Technologies from Web-scale
• MapReduce led to Hadoop
• Early use of SDN and Open Networking
• Containers (Docker)
– Google launches 2B containers/week
3Facebook Switching (OCP)

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Changing Design Mentality
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• App in a Silo
• Optimized
Infrastructure
• Gold-copy and
repeat
• HA design:
harden
everything, limit
failures
• 70%+ budget
on OpEx
• Virtualized App
• Virtualization
Gives App Mobility
and Repeatability
• Clustered
Architecture
• SW supports
reliability
• Improved
utilization, but
OpEx?
• Hyper-Optimized App
• Containers Separate
App Mgmt from
Infrastructure Mgmt
(things WILL
CHANGE)
• Distributed
Architecture at the core
of Scale-out
• Design for failure,
chaos monkey
• Automate/orchestrate
Low/No Touch
Web-scale
VirtualizatedTraditional
Model

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Bridging from Web-scale
to Enterprise
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Scale-out = Distributed Architecture
Rack Level Design = Simplicity
Not “Open” = Free like a box of puppies
“Open” as in Extensibility/Interfaces
Role of Hardware

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Server SAN at the
Intersection
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Wikibon.org/Server_SAN