Unified Computing Momentum
Bing Reaport
Datacenter Solutions Specialist
July 2015
The Next Wave
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We Are at the Cusp of a Major Shift
DIGITAL EXPERIENCES EFFICIENCY SIMPLICITY | SPEED
Adoption
Curve
IT as a Service IaaS | PaaS | SaaS | XaaS
Flexible Consumption Models
CONSOLIDATION VIRTUALIZATION
HYBRID
CLOUDS
2000 2010 2015 The Next 5+ Years
POLICY DRIVEN
AUTOMATION
TRADITIONAL DATA CENTER
We are here
CLOUD-READY DATA CENTER
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UCS has now reached over $3 billion revenue run rate with over 43,800 customers. More than
85% of the Fortune 500 have chosen UCS, because of the innovative architecture, with particular
traction in cloud, big data and enterprise application solutions. The innovation underlying UCS,
the convergence of compute network and storage is continuing to fuel our growth in the data
center and differentiates Cisco.”
John Chambers
May 2015
FY15 Q3 Earnings Announcement
“ Cisco’s Data Center Momentum
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#1 PHILIPPINES
#1 AUSTRALIA
#1 NEW ZEALAND
THAILAND #3
INDIA #3
#6 JAPAN
#2 SOUTH KOREA
MALAYSIA #4
SINGAPORE,
INDONESIA
VIETNAM #2
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Blade – Cisco #1 Position in Philippines
Cisco,1.7M
HP,1M
Lenovo,0.5M
Dell,0.4M
0.0%
5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
35.0%
40.0%
45.0%
50.0%
2014Q1 2014Q2 2014Q3 2014Q4 2015Q1
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Looking back ...
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Data Center Economics
2%
7%
7%
10%
11%
12%
22%
29%
Overhead
Disaster Recovery
Storage
Networking
Servers
Energy/Facilities
Software
People
Source: Gartner-Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”
63% of Overall IT
Spent on OpEx (People, Software, & Facilities)
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From ad hoc and
inconsistent…
…to structured, but siloed,
complicated and costly…
What does your Data Center organization look like?
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Management & Operational Configurations
+
10 * Mgmt
Modules
Legacy Design = Too Many Hardware devices + Software elements
10 * Chassis
Switches
2 * SAN
Switches
2 * LAN Switches
+ Management
Agents for
20 servers
.
.
+ 2 * Management
Server Hardware
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UCS Founding Principles To address the needs of the dynamically evolving IT Infrastructure
Compute
Management
UCS Network / Storage
Power Efficiency
Embedded Management
Virtualized Infrastructure
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The Cisco UCS Advantage Scalable, Flexible & Form Factor Independent
Mgmt SAN LAN
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What’s driving this rapid adoption?
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Technology Innovations that solved REAL problems
Unified Fabric reduces infrastructure complexity Simple
Software defined infrastructure Virtualized
Industry standard hardware and open standard management
Standard
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The only constant in today’s world is CHANGE
2009 - Iphone 3GS 2015 – Iphone 6 Plus
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Powering Applications at Every Scale The Next Wave of UCS Innovation
Core Data Center Workloads
Converged
and Hyper-
Converged
Infrastructure
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Pretested and preconfigured bundled solutions, acting as whole, consisting of compute, network, storage and management software.
Provide platform to meet customer challenges and growing infrastructure demands
Consistent, financially efficient, operationally simplified, independently scalable solution
Rapidly deployable, allows granular upgrades
Customer Challenges &
Infrastructure Demands
Converged Infrastructure
FLEXPOD UCP- Select VSPEX SmartStack VersaStack VBLOCK
Proliferation of applications; Need for any application on any device
Roll out new and/or business critical database applications quickly & consistently
Single system operation – Reduced Infrastructural and management complexity
Add capacity and storage when needed
Accelerated implementation
Streamlined support
UCS Director Cisco UCS
Cisco Nexus
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SmartStack – Cisco and Nimble
• Hybrid flash array built on Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture
• Scale easily and non-disruptively
• Management with UCS Director
• Pre-validated reference architectures with Cisco + Citrix, Oracle VMware, Microsoft
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Versastack – Cisco and IBM Easy , Efficient, Versatile
• Cisco UCS , Nexus and MDS Integrated Infrastructure
• Automated data optimization with IBM Easy Tier
• Increase storage capacity with IBM Real-time Compression
• Storage virtualization enables a dynamic infrastructure by
extending Storwize functions to existing IBM & non-IBM
storage
• Unified management and provisioning with Cisco UCS
Director
• Range of services from Business Partners and IBM Global Services
• Application Centric – IBM Big Data , Analytics and Hybrid Cloud Capabilities
Cisco
ACIReady
StorwizeIBM
UCSIntegrated
Infrastructure
Hypervisor
Management
IBM Storwize V7000
Cisco Nexus & MDS
Cisco UCS Servers
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New Converged Infrastructure offering utilizing Software Defined Storage
Tight integration of x86 servers for compute and storage, networking and virtualization in all-in-one appliance.
Simple Scale one unit/appliance at a time
Simple deployment measured in hours
Definition: What is Hyper-convergence?
Controller
VM VM VM VM
Local Physical Storage
Hypervisor
Controller
VM VM VM VM
Local Physical Storage
Hypervisor
Controller
VM VM VM VM
Local Physical Storage
Hypervisor
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OmniStack – Cisco and Simplivity
• Highly Available VM Infrastructure
• Scale Out Architecture in 2U modular increments
• Data Virtualization Platform, powered by the
OmniStack Accelerator Card: Dedupe, Compress,
Optimize, At Ingest, Inline, In Real-Time, Once and
Forever: Primary, Backup, Archive, WAN, Cloud
• VM-Centricity & Mobility: all policies, commands
and info on per VM basis for backup, replication
and DR
• Global Unified Management with one screen:
VMware vCenter
• Infrastructure Management with Cisco UCS
Manager
OmniCube
Accelerator™ Powered by
Simplivity OmniStack™ &
Data Virtualization
Platform™
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Core Data Center Workloads
Converged
and Hyper-
Converged
Infrastructure
UCS Mini
Edge-Scale Computing
Core Data Center Workloads
Powering Applications at Every Scale The Next Wave of UCS Innovation
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Introducing the Miniaturized UCS
UCS Mini Enterprise Capability at Edge Scale
Connect up to 7 C-Series Rack Servers for Expanded Capacity
6324 Fabric Interconnects
New architectural entry point for Unified Computing at 1~15 server scale
Full Power UCS in an all-in-one package:
• Compute
• Networking
• UCS Manager
• Standard UCS Blades / Fans / Power Supplies
UP TO
29% CapEx Savings
UP TO
36% TCO
UP TO
34% Lower Power
UP TO
80% Fewer Cables
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Core Data Center Workloads
Converged
and Hyper-
Converged
Infrastructure
UCS Mini
Edge-Scale Computing Cloud-Scale Computing
UCS M-Series
UCS C3160
Server
Core Data Center Workloads
Edge-Scale Computing
Core Data Center Workloads
Cloud-Scale Computing
Powering Applications at Every Scale The Next Wave of UCS Innovation
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The changing IT Landscape
Online Banking
Travel Websites
Shopping Websites
Patient Portals
ATM
Travel Agent
Order Catalog
Doctor Office Visit
Enterprise
Scale
Workloads • Redundant Components
• Rack / Blade Optimized
• Dedicated peripherals
Most Commonly Deployed
Compute Infrastructure
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The changing IT Landscape
Online Banking
Travel Websites
Shopping Websites
Patient Portals
Mobile Banking
Mobile Apps
Mobile Apps
Tele-Medicine
ATM
Travel Agent
Order Catalog
Doctor Office Visit
Enterprise
Scale
Workloads • Redundant Components
• Rack / Blade Optimized
• Dedicated peripherals
Most Commonly Deployed
Compute Infrastructure
• Minimalistic Design
• Density Optimized
• Power Efficient
Cloud
Scale
Workloads
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Cloud-Scale Inverts Computing Architecture
Core Enterprise Workloads Cloud Scale
Many
Applications
Server Single
Server
Many
Servers
Single
Application
SCM ERP/Financial Legacy CRM Email Online
Content Gaming Mobile IoT E-Commerce
Hypervisor
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Taking Modularity To A New Level
Compute Shared Infrastructure
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Traditional Rack Servers 16 Server Footprint
16 x Traditional 1U Rack Servers
32 x HDD
16 x 1GbE NIC Cards
16 x RAID Controllers
32 x Sets of Cables
32 x Redundant Fan kits
32 x PSU
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UCS M-Series Modular Servers
UP TO
77% Faster
Provisioning
UP TO
8x Server
Density
UP TO
95% Fewer
Peripherals
UP TO
38% TCO
Improvement
UP TO
22% Power
Efficiency
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Cisco UCS: Powering Applications at Every Scale
Edge-Scale Computing
UCS Mini
Cloud-Scale Computing
UCS M-Series
Modular Servers
UCS C3160
Core Data Center Workloads
Converged and
Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure
UCS Management
Innovation
Compute Network Storage
Virtualization
Management and Automation
Thank you.