Managing infrastructure for anInternet of Things

Rachel ChalmersResearch director, infrastructure computing for the enterprise (ICE)

Agenda• Everything is changing• Bits > atoms• You are the center of the universe• Towards an infrastructure for the Internet of Things•Cloud computing•Platform-as-a-service• Identity and desktop management•Big data• Recommendations for IT managers

Everything is changing• The universe is enormously bigger than you think it is• Peace is the exception. Violent change is the rule• The universe is probably at the beginning of its life•13.7bn years old• Ends range from 20-100bn to 10150 years from now• Vernor Vinge’s programmer-archaeologists• Sensitive dependence on initial conditions

Bits > atoms• Robots are transitional objects between bits and

atoms• Bits are immortal• Knowledge isn’t immortal• Software rots• Knowledge is a garden

The future of work• Make robots (automation) do your dirty work• Supervise your robots and help others supervise

theirs

Constellations: side view

You are the center of the universe• Shelley: “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of

the world.”• Wrong. Systems administrators• Code is law• Alasdair Gray: “Work as if you live in the early days of

a better nation.”

Cloud computing is here to stay

Tablet adoption is growing even faster

No prizes for guessing the winner

Although Android is putting up a fight

Infrastructure for an Internet of Things

• Tablet demand skyrocketing• Desktop virtualization for constellation of endpoints• Developer critical mass moves to Android and iOS• Early adoption of PaaS is for mobile development• Mobile apps are data fountains• Data can be captured, analyzed and gleaned

Cloud computing

• Best practices from cloud in demand in enterprise IT• Future enterprise IT buying uses clouds as channels• Cloud providers become gatekeepers to enterprise• Licensing will look less like ELAs and more like SPLAs• Dominant model will be (already is) hybrid

Colo

MSP

Cloud App IT

org

Platform-as-a-service

• Emerging default model for collaborative agile dev• VMware has to get from here to there• Microsoft, Red Hat, Oracle and Google are rivals• Upstarts to watch: Engine Yard, Infochimps, Joyent• Apps are targeted to mobile devices

Case studies

Identity and desktop management

• Active Directory ubiquitous in infrastructure• No VDI or hybrid cloud can function without it• Google+ is not a competitor to Facebook• Google+ competes with Active Directory• Who owns your identity?

Big data

• Mobile applications are data farms• Consumers will use them free or at low cost• Their behavioral data will be harvested for analysis• Hammerbacher: “The best minds of my generation

are thinking about how to make people click ads”• Personal genomics• Evidence-based education• Sustainable design

• “Total data” management

Recommendations for IT managers

1. Reinvent IT org as internal service provider

Recommendations for IT managers

1. Reinvent IT org as internal service provider2. Unify, unify, unify

Recommendations for IT managers

1. Reinvent IT org as internal service provider2. Unify, unify, unify3. Manage datacenter, network, server, storage,

virtual layer, application, user experience, cloud as one entity

Recommendations for IT managers

1. Reinvent IT org as internal service provider2. Unify, unify, unify3. Manage datacenter, network, server, storage,

virtual layer, application, user experience, cloud as one entity

4. Go beyond managing incidents and problems to manage change and configuration ahead of need

Recommendations for IT managers

1. Reinvent IT org as internal service provider2. Unify, unify, unify3. Manage datacenter, network, server, storage,

virtual layer, application, user experience, cloud as one entity

4. Go beyond managing incidents and problems to manage change and configuration ahead of need

5. Empower end users to become power users

Thanks! Questions?

rachel.chalmers@451research.com