Post on 16-Jul-2015
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Hyperconvergence and Death of the Storage Array
Stu Miniman, Wikibon Senior Analyst Interop Las Vegas 2015
stu@wikibon.org @stu
…OF THE TRADITIONAL
STORAGE ARRAY IS COMING
…NOT OF STORAGE, …NOT OF
STORAGE PEOPLE 2
Today’s Premise
• Why this isn’t hype-converged • Is “IT simplicity” an oxymoron? • Where are we on the journey?
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Quick Discussion of Terminology
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Server SAN
hFp://wikibon.org/Server_SAN 5
SOLUTIONS (typically 100s apps)
HYPER-‐OPTIMIZED (limited # apps)
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Technology Pendulum Swings • Aggregation/disaggregation, i.e., the new Mainframe • Storage being pulled back into the server
Source hFp://premium.wikibon.com/infrastructure 7
The Architecture
• Scale out…Distributed Systems • Standardized, yet flexible • It’s all about software, still requires a fully tested stack • Inside, Outside, Open and Choice • Flash, cloud, containers and beyond
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Server SAN landscape (Hyperconverged)
More Hyperconverged Players
More coming…
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It’s a big enough umbrella…
Meet most of the criteria, but purposefully not meeting all
Scale-‐out All-‐flash array SDN meets SDS Data Aware Scale-‐out NAS
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CIO Challenges
• Budgets and headcount are flat • Exponential growth in data and steady increase of new
projects • Competition from “the cloud”
IT simplicity translates into agility and flexibility 11
Your Last Refresh/Upgrade
Servers
Storage
Network
Backup
Get off the hamster wheel and into the infinity pool! 12
Changing Design Mentality
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Traditional Model Hyperscale-‐like Virtualized
Hardware resiliency So_ware/applica`on resiliency
Sta`c/fixed Dynamic update/change
Network
Bare metal
PaaS
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Operational Impact Conway’s Law “Organiza(ons which design systems … are constrained to produce systems which are copies of the communica(on structures of these organiza(ons.”
FEAR: Does the new model = less jobs?
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Some Final Words • Friends don’t let friends build new data centers • BoFlenecks aren’t eliminated, they are simply moved • Don’t let legacy [infrastructure, applica`ons or mindset] hold your
business back
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Summary • Server SAN architecture proven in hyperscale, early
days in enterprise – 2014: ~ 600M hyperconverged; > $6B converged; > $1T IT
• Simplicity requires technology and people in sync • Infrastructure serves your applications
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stu@wikibon.org @stu