Presentation from Web-scale Wednesday webinar on 6/25/14. Abstract: The same web-scale companies that drive much of the commerce on the Internet (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon) are some of the largest consumers of IT in the world. The operational models and many of the technologies that started in the largest data centers are starting to invade mainstream enterprise IT. This session will help unpack how to bridge the knowledge gap between these very different worlds.

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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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