The Data Center Scenario: The Intelligent Data Center: Rakesh Kumar Naveen Mishra
The Data Center Scenario: The Intelligent Data Center: Rakesh Kumar Naveen Mishra
The Data Center Scenario: The Intelligent Data Center: Rakesh Kumar Naveen Mishra
Rakesh Kumar
Naveen Mishra
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The future data center will focus not on workload, but on workflow …
And not on where the work is located but on what the work is doing.
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Key Issues
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Challenges for the CIO
What It Means for the Data Center Team
New markets,
Planning Evolving new Long-term Increasing
for the demand for opportunities, capital cost on opex
unknown IT resources constant constraints optimization
change
Facilities
COST RISK DR/BC
Modification Synch./asynchronous
Power — supply, cost Data management
Cooling — design High availability
Structures — floors Data center distribution
External supplies/grid
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Drivers
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Data Center Strategy Using
Pace-Layered Application Strategy
+
Off-Premises Systems of -
Data Centers Innovation
Governance
Change
Systems of
Differentiation
- On-Premises Systems of
Record
Data Centers +
of CIOs currently have
45% a second fast/agile
mode of operation
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Source: 2014 Gartner Annual CIO Survey
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Key Issues
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Today's Data Center Silos
Applications Independent
Provisioning
and Support:
Virtual • Virtual machines
Compute Network Storage
Appliances • Server adapters
• Storage partitions
• Networks
• Appliances
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Intelligent Data Centers —
Software-Defined Everything
Workloads Today's
Policy Engines:
• Platform-specific.
• Job schedulers.
Virtualized
Server • Manual correlation across tiers.
Tomorrow's
Software
Policy Engines:
Virtualized • Non-platform-specific.
-Defined
Storage
Network • Focus is workloads and workflow.
• Platform agnostic.
Implications:
• Inherited policies cascading down.
• Energy policy standards.
Virtualized • Automated data sharing
Data Center between engines.
The future data center will focus not on workload, but on workflow …
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And not on where the work is located, but on what the work is doing.
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Intelligent Data Center v2.0
SDS Customized DC Modules
Tailored Facilities
SDI
SDN Multizone DCIM
SDC
Multitier
Software-Defined Optimized
Data Center Resources
Global Topology
IT Service Continuity (IT-SC)
Nonstop Hybrid
Multisourcing
BCM Demand Data Center Data Center
DRM Cloud Services
RTO Driven
Internal, Hosted, Hybrid, Cloud
New Operational New Infrastructure
Models Models
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Key Issues
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The Intelligent Data Center Organization
• Business-IT agility
• Relationships with
third-party suppliers
• Speed of change
versus quality of
change:
− DevOps
• Hybrid support
• Impact of nexus:
− Data scientist
− BYOD, new devices
Portfolio of Projects
Run the Business of I&O: Grow: Transform:
• DR • New D/C • Cloud
• Process Improvement • New • SDDC
• Infrastructure Change Architecture
• New Tools
• Consolidation
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