Data Centers and the Cloud

Pim Bilderbeek Principal Analyst

pim@themetisfiles.com

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Business Computing: Past, Present and Future

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Transition

• Legacy

• Silo

• Fixed

Past

Present • Cloud

• Social

• Mobile

Future

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Enterprise Vision El

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rise

•Adaptable to changes in economy and strategy

•Flexible workforce

•Fluid partner ecosystem

•Globally distributed business functions

•Virtual teams

•Outsourced non-core functions

•Multiple channels to customer

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•Employer and employee

•Digital skills and knowledge

•Flexible and virtual

•Mixing work and play

•Location independent

•Bring their own IT

•Multiple communication channels

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•Networked community

•Mutually interdependent

•Fluid partner roles & responsibilities

•Performance driven by network characteristics and structure

•Distributed intelligence

• Influence through combined behavior

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on-demand, virtual, automated

scheduled, physical, manual

customer control, ownership,

responsibility

supplier control, ownership,

responsibility

shared infrastructure and operations

private infrastructure shared operations

private infrastructure and operations

private infrastructure and operations

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ICT

hybrid cloud

public cloud

hybrid hosting

out-sourcing

hybrid opera-tions

legacy IT

hybrid archi-

tecture

private cloud

From Legacy To Cloud

Computing Deployment Models

control elasticity

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Data Center Trends

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Data Center

DCIM

Modularization

Less is More

Industrialization

Physical Computing

Convergence

x86

Big Data

Efficiency

Virtual Computing

Automation

XaaS

Portability

Orchestration

Automation and Orchestration

Evolving Cloud Business Models

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Consumer Cloud

No Privacy

No QoS

Public

SaaS

Custom Hardware

Customer Cloud

Trusted Provider

QoS

Public

SaaS

Converged Infra

Business Cloud

Security/Compliance

SLA

Public/Hybrid/Private

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

Standard Hardware, Converged Infra

The Evolving Data Center Ecosystem

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GLOBAL DATA CENTER GRID

From Silos To Social

Separate Communications Separate stacks for voice and data applications

Mixed Communications A mix of devices and multimedia communications applications across a mix of infrastructures

Unified Communications Multiple devices with single interfaces integrating a mix of multimedia communications apps on a unified infrastructure

Social Communications & Collaboration Multiple devices with single interfaces integrating a mix of multimedia communications, collaboration, social networking, and business apps on a cloud based infrastructure

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4

On-premise Hybrid Cloud

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From Fixed To Mobile

At Work

On Location

At Home

On The Move

remote access is the new normal

social is the new fabric

cloud is the new platform

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Business Computing: Past, Present and Future

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Transition

• Legacy

• Silo

• Fixed

Past

Present • Cloud

• Social

• Mobile

Future

www.themetisfiles.com 2012