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Ruoho HarriMyyntipäällikkö
Harri.ruoho@fi.ibm.com
Dynamic Infrastructure –Role of Datacenter Networking
Cisco Expo 8.9.2009
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What are the typical challenges for IT departments?
Costs & Service Delivery
Business Resiliency & Security
EnergyRequirements
Environmental compliance & governance mandates
Explosion in volume of data and information
Power & thermal issues inhibit operations
Difficulty in deploying new applications and services
Rising costs of systems and networking operations
Rising energy costs & rising energy demand
Landslide of compliance requirements
Security of your assets & your clients’ information
Systems and applications need to be available
Challenges
Environmental compliance & governance mandates
Explosion in volume of data and information
Power & thermal issues inhibit operations
Difficulty in deploying new applications and services
Rising costs of systems and networking operations
Rising energy costs & rising energy demand
Landslide of compliance requirements
Security of your assets & your clients’ information
Systems and applications need to be available
Challenges
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Today’s Infrastructure
Pools of independent resources connected by dedicated networks
Systems management by pool, not end-to-end
System availability delivered through redundancy
Firewall Servers
RoutersSwitches
Special Purpose
Appliances
Directory Servers
Application Servers
Web Servers
Data Servers
Storage
Mainframes
File/Print Servers
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Consolidation and virtualization
Dynamic / CloudVirtualizationScale-Out Complexity Consolidation
Net
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Device sprawl
Device virtualization
System virtualization
System provisioning and automation
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Networks are the cornerstone for IT consolidation and virtualization initiatives
Network performance and capacity requirements
Security and resiliency
Rapid provisioning
Visibility, control, and automation across all IT resources
Server, storage and data center consolidation & virtualization increase the demands on networks
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Architectural Model for Dynamic Infrastructure®
DEVELOPERS OPERATORSCORE ENTERPRISE ADMINISTRATION
SERVICE REQUESTORS
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE
SERVERS STORAGE NETWORK
VIRTUAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE
SERVERS STORAGE NETWORK FACILITIES
PHYSICAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE
END USERS
END USERS
RESILIEN
CE
BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE
END USERSSERVICE
CREATORS
INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
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Creating a Future Systems View of Infrastructure
Virtualized computing and storage services.
Connected by a high performance converged network data fabric –allowing LAN and Storage traffic to share common network.
Automated and managed by service management for complete visibility and control of heterogeneous pools of physical and virtual assets and services.
Create value for clients through tighter integration between servers, storage, networking and software.
CONSOLIDATED SPECIAL PURPOSE APPLIANCES
DATA CENTER BACKBONE
VIRTUALIZED STORAGE
VIRTUALIZED SERVERS
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
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Building a dynamic infrastructure.Service Management
Virtualization
Energy Efficiency
Business Resiliency
Security
Information Infrastructure
Provide visibility, control and automation across all the business and IT assets to deliver higher value services.
Maximizing the value of critical business and IT assets over their lifecycle with industry tailored asset management solutions.
Leadership virtualization and consolidation solutions that reduce cost, improve asset utilization, and speed provisioning of new services.
Address energy, environment, and sustainability challenges and opportunities across your business and IT infrastructure.
Maintaining continuous business and IT operations while rapidly adapting and responding to risks and opportunities.
End to end industry customized governance, risk management and compliance solutions.
Helping businesses achieve information compliance, availability, retention, and security objectives.
Asset Management
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Skills shift from operations (break / fix) to IT Business AnalystsBreak down silos and organize around IT service delivery Paradigm shift toward shared environment
Open standards─ Open management across server,
storage, networking─ Open networking standards
Role of systems and networking in recentralization Automation
StandardizationDisciplined Repeatable and documented processes
– Change and configurationmanagement
– Process automation
This transformation spans across people, process and technology.
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What is the relationship between Datacenter Networking
DCN solution is part of a broader Dynamic Infrastructure offeringDCN is focused on enabling a dynamic and converged network infrastructure
Storage
Servers
Data Networking
Services
Integrated management of virtual and physical systems, storage and networking
SAN
ManagementSoftware
Middleware and Applications
Highly distributed and scalable Application and Integration Middleware
Extreme virtualization with massive scalability and
advanced security
High performance links connecting to virtual and
converged networks
Extremely fast, scalable and virtualizable storage
solutions
Full life-cycle services expertise that spans the
entire data center infrastructure
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Networks for dynamic infrastructures must become flexible, responsive and managed together with the rest of the IT infrastructure
Switch and specialized device sprawl Switch and specialized
device virtualizationNetwork
virtualizationNetwork services
provisioning
Server and storage provisioning
Server network access virtualization
Server and storagedevice virtualizationServer and
storage sprawl
Scale-out complexity Consolidation Virtualization Dynamic
Network
Server/Storage
Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare
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