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The Coming Disruption to Datacenter StrategiesStu Miniman, Sr. Analyst

June 25, 2014

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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

Facebook 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 TouchWeb-scale

VirtualizatedTraditionalModel

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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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