Post on 21-Jan-2018
Hyperconverged Systems for Digital Transformation
Chris GuggerDirector – Infrastructure Solutions Marketing
Agenda
Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer Considerations
Introductions
Hyperconverged Market – An Industry Analyst Perspective
New UCP Family
Q & A
Session Panel
CHRIS GUGGERDirector, Infrastructure Solutions MarketingHitachi Vantara
STANLEY STEVENSSenior Analyst, Data Center Practice Technology Business Review, Inc.
MATT BOUGESEnterprise IT ArchitectConagra Brands
Company Market Business Structure
§ Established: 1996 § Employees: ~100§ Analysts track ~250
companies contributing over $3 trillion in technology revenue per year
§ Client reference > 16 Fortune500
§ Decision makers: 1,500§ Influencers: 1,500§ End user surveys:
>15,000/year
§ Financial results ground analysis of industry trends, vendor performance, profit pools and best practices
§ 360° market view- Vendor analysis- Customer analysis- Market analysis
§ QuantCenter Information platform (360° landscape view)
§ Data models
§ Research practices: data center, telecom, devices, IoT, cloud, software, services, digital marketing and digital transformation
§ Tailored services- Strategy and growth services- Performance and
measurement services- Voice-of-the-customer and
opportunity services- GTM and commercial
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TBRShortFacts
Legacy IT transformation hinges on:§ Scalability to accommodate future workloads§ Security across workloads, hardware and software§ Administrative simplicity
Digital transformation hinges on:§ Physical infrastructure location is irrelevant§ Application and data protection supersedes
perimeter security methods engineered for an on-premises world
Technologies enabling transformation:
§ Hyperconverged§ Centralized management
and orchestration
Encryption
Policies
Provisioning
Usage/billing
I/O
StorageCPU
AI
IoTDigitalSecurityattackpoints
Isolation-drivensecurity
Network
Data Monetization Drives Transformation Shifts
Infrastructure Must Evolve!
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Top concerns with traditional infrastructure:
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%PercentofRespondents(n=200)
REASONSFORINVESTINGINHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMS
SOURCE: TBRHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMSCUSTOMERRESEARCH,June2016
Rigid architectures = static scaling
Complex & labor intensive = consumes
resources
Rising cost =limited workload
innovation
Current storage architecture is outdated or underperforming
Cost versus traditional hardware infrastructure
Hardware infrastructure was due for an upgrade
Reduce operating processes
Improve efficiency of internal processes
TCO versus traditional infrastructure
Effective management of operations/processes
Critical Apps Are Migrating to Hyperconverged
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Productivity and/or collaboration
Development and/or testing
Customer resource management (CRM)
Cloud hosting
Data warehousing
Business processing (ERP)
Database
Data back up and recovery
Development and operations
Business intelligence and/or analytics (e.g., data mining, predictive)
Percent of respondents (n = 200)SOURCE:TBRHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMSCUSTOMERRESEARCH,DECEMBER2016
WORKLOADSPROMPTINGTHEPURCHASEOFHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMS
Separating FUD From Reality
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Timetodeployment
Easeofinstallation
Compatibilitywithexistinginfrastructure
Capacity
Applicationperformance
Percentofrespondents(n=179)SOURCE: TBRHYPERCONVERGEDPLATFORMSCUSTOMERRESEARCH,June2016
KEY ATTRIBUTES VALIDATED DURING ON-SITE EVALUATION
Conagra Brands Company Profile
§ Headquarters in Chicago, IL
§ 40 locations, including offices in Chicago, IL, and Omaha, NE
§ More than 13,000 employees
§ Over $8 billion in annual revenue
§ 50+ brands
§ Aging infrastructure
§ Converged architecture using Cisco UCS, NetApp and HDS – 1,500 desktops
§ Expensive and complex
§ Difficult to grow
§ New requirements due to IT and business outsourcing –mission critical
VDI Infrastructure Problem
Converged or Hypercovnerged?
§ Initially only looked at converged
§ Did not believe HCI was ready for mission-critical workloads
§ Concerned about new skill sets for a new architecture
Why HCI, What Changed?
§ Rapid HCI maturity – all flash, VSAN 6, etc.
§ Moving to a solo data center with 1,000 sq. feet – size matters!
§ Developed comfort with the technology through POCs
§ Great fit for VDI workloads
HCI Solutions Considered
§ Nutanix – not already in our DC
§ Dell/EMC VxRail – complex and constraining
§ Cisco Hyperflex – maturity level and size
§ Hitachi UCP HC – the right fit!
§ Hitachi UCP HC 240F – 2 per data center (4 nodes ea.)
§ 512 GB RAM, 28 cores per node, 30 TB all flash per site
§ VMware Horizon Enterprise 7, cloud pod architecture
§ HDI and HCP for UEM profiles
§ 12u total for 1500-2000 desktops
The Solution
Introducing the Next Generation
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform HC
Automated: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor 2.0
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform CI
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform RS
Flexible Simple Agile
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC)
Server Workloads§ All virtualized workloads
running on VMware, including mission-critical and tier-1 apps
§ Application uptime ensured through HA, DRS, vSAN
§ Easily add up to 64 nodes for increased capacity
Virtual Private Cloud§ Service Provider VPC building
block for MSP and hosting§ Consistently and easily
deployed on-prem and off-prem (Colo)
§ Quick and easy scale-out appliances to increase capacity
EUC/VDI§ Up to 800 virtual desktops§ Handle peak performance
requirements (boot, login, read/write storms)
§ Quick and easy deployment and configuration
§ On-prem or Cloud-hosted
Regional Offices§ Consistent footprint and
deployment operations§ IT-in-a-box§ Simplified user experience ideal
for non-VMware experts§ Centralized management for
remote deployment and configuration