Architecting for Data Center Agility. Ted Ritter Senior Research Analyst

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1 Architecting for Data Center Agility Ted Ritter Senior Research Analyst

2 Agenda About Nemertes What is Data Center Agility? Adoption Trends, the Sourcing Spectrum, & Success Correlations Technology Trends and Roadmap Business Trends Case Study Recommendations

3 Nemertes: Bridging the Gap Between Business & IT Quantifies the business impact of emerging technologies Conducts in-depth interviews with IT professionals Advises businesses on critical issues such as: Unified Communications Social Computing Data Centers & Cloud Computing Security Next-generation WANs Cost models, RFPs, Architectures, Strategies

4 What Is Data Center Agility?

5 Abstract Data-Center Model Power + Bandwidth in Services (+ heat!) out Data Center User Computing

6 Agile Data Center Getting through the box faster Virtualization servers Identity-based security Request Blade servers More storage! Optimized communications Autonomous management! Fulfillment Virtual Desktops Green!

7 Adoption Trends

8 Data Center 2000s and Beyond Before 2000 Complex, layered, purpose-built Application silos Manual Which Meant Inflexible and slow to change Over-provisioned (under-utilized) Inefficient and wasteful Power-hungry Over-cooled Out of capacity 2000 and Beyond Consolidated Virtualized Optimized Automated Which Means Flexible (technology) Agile (business) Multi-purpose/adaptable On-demand Efficient Low power

9 Data Center: Key Trends Outsourcing: more than half (53.2% ) use hosting or co-lo, either in addition to (36.2%) or instead of (17%) owned facilities. Success correlates most highly with using a mixed (owned plus co-lo) solution. Power and HVAC: Most (59%) have some form of HVAC or power challenges. Virtualization: Slowing server acquisition h 30% projecting declining number of servers this year. h Benefits: Power, Cooling, Hardware, Space conservation Typical virtualization host: more RAM, more CPUs Storage Growth continues Unabated h FC is king now,through 2010, through 2011 h ISCSI on the rise, especially among smaller and more aggressive companies. h FCOE: Less than 2% penetration in the next 2 years. 10G: Gaining Momentum h Half use it in the core, or plan to in the next 2 years. h Elsewhere, only about a third use it or plan to in the next 2 years

10 Data Center Ownership: Outsourced or Not?

11 Outsourcing Adoption Data Center Outsourcing Adoption Leasing Colocation Managed Hosting SaaS Cloud (PaaS & IaaS) % 29% 23% 60% < 1% Greatest data center success correlates to owning data center and outsourcing Security and compliance concerns hold back cloud adoption

12 The Sourcing Spectrum BYODC Colocation Managed Hosting IaaS PaaS SaaS Application Middleware Operating System Virtual Infrastructure IT Physical Infrastructure Physical Hardware Data Center Environment Ownership Management & Security Workload Movement

13 Data Center HVAC Challenges (2009)

14 Data Center Response to HVAC Challenges (2009)

15 Data Center to Data Center Bandwidth

16 10G Adoption in the Data Center 18.5% 15.1% 34.4% 4.9% 9.8% 5.6% 9.3% 5.7% 15.1% % 66.7% 64.2% No Plans Core Dist Edge

17 Data Center: Growth in Servers Slowing

18 Terabytes/Employee by Company Size (Revenues)

19 Success Factors

20 Success Correlates With Some (but not total) outsourcing: Success correlates most highly with using a mixed (owned plus co-lo) solution Use of multiple carriers to provide WAN bandwidth NOT leasing equipment Having an aggressive IT culture (more likely to have enough power)

21 Technology Trends

22 Technology Architecture & Evolution Virtualized OS and Applications Management SLM Resilient Storage and Computing Hardware Dynamic Network Infrastructure Security Virtualization Mgmt Provisioning Element Mgmt Intelligent Power and Cooling Infrastructure Power Mgmt

23 Enabling Technologies Technology Lowers Cost Increases Capacity Improves Agility Adds Reliability Supports Sustainability Multi-core CPUs 10 Gig Ethernet Storage over Ethernet Intelligent power Environmental sensors Optimized cooling Asset and capacity planning software Heat exchangers Flywheel technology

24 Technology Outlook Storage consolidation Network consolidation Environmental sensors Multicores 10 Gig Enet Autonomic facilities 2010 Virtualization In-row cooling Server pool consolidation Power metering Storage Enet In-rack cooling In-chassis cooling Copyright 2009 Nemertes Research

25 Is Outsourcing the Answer? Expertise? Risk? Time? Geography? Performance? Investment? Solution

26 Data-Center Hosting Selection Criteria Location (geography) Risk: Security (physical, environmental) Risk: Compliance, and privacy policy of host country/region Tier (I-IV) Management capabilities Expansion capabilities Proximity to nets Pricing space, power, bits Green/sustainable strategy SLAs

27 Don t Forget Get Help! Selected Vendors APC Bruns-Pak Constantin Walsh-Lowe LLC CS Technology Inc. Hewlett Packard Data Center Services IBM Corp. Layer 1 Design Liebert NetStructures Inc. Seda Engineering Syska Hennessy Group

28 Business Case: Data Center Consolidation Best thing we ever did! It met all our needs: capacity, reliability, flexibility. It really set us up to take advantage of the technologies now available. Senior VP for IT Global financial services company with 52 data centers globally and endemic power, space, cooling problems! So, built 3 new DCs(US, EMEA, APAC) Virtualized servers, centralized storage, used WAN optimization Hot zones with targeted cooling Power designed to 75W/ft 2 (using less than 50); cooling designed to 150W/ft 2 Now measure power at wall, PDU, power strip, track PUE now 1.63 Down to 14 DCs with room to grow

29 What Should You Be Doing? Urgent: Act Now Technology has become mainstream. R&D for predecessor technology has dried up. Competitors will gain advantage. Short-Term Plans Technology is becoming mainstream. Business benefit too large to ignore. Implement within 1 year. Long-Term Plans Technology can provide some benefits. Some may be too new for business adoption. Implement in 1-3 years Specific Needs Technology is relevant for certain companies. Implementation is case-bycase, depending on industry or size.

30 What Should You Be Doing? Urgent: Act Now Power metering, multicore computing, server consolidation, server virtualization, services subnet, Gig Enet Short-Term Plans Storage consolidation, storage networking, storage virtualization, in-row or overhead cooling, asset & capacity mgt Long-Term Plans Autonomic facilities, sustainability strategy, in-chassis cooling Specific Needs Hosted data centers, IaaS, specialty consulting/engineering firms, cloud computing, in-rack or in-chassis cooling

31 THANK YOU! Ted Ritter Senior Research Analyst