Building an Aerodynamic Infrastructure - Session from Tuesday - 16

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Building an Aerodynamic InfrastructureThe Power and Agility of FlexPod


What animal do we need in the Data Centre?

• Workhorse

‒ a (1) : a person who performs most of the work of a group task (2) : a hardworking person

‒ b : something that is markedly useful, durable, or dependable

• Racehorse

‒ a horse bred or kept for racing

2

Power to generate speed.

Bred for hard, heavy tasks


DC’s still have a heavy load to bear – but the business now see’s agility and speed as performance indicators

Bred for hard, heavy tasks?


DC’s still have a heavy load to bear – but the business now see’s agility and speed as performance indicators

Bred for hard, heavy tasks? Power to generate speed?

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So what would the business back?A thoroughbred but also a hybrid…



NetworkStorageServers

VirtualisationAn agile and quick thinking platform to support the speed of virtualisation and private cloud

A highly powerful and robust back office infrastructure able to cope with heavy duty operating systems and application workloads

Non Virtual

90-100% of Applications

Enterprise Apps



NetworkStorageServers

VirtualisationAn agile and quick thinking platform to support the speed of virtualisation and private cloud

A highly powerful and robust back office infrastructure able to cope with heavy duty operating systems and application workloads

Non Virtual

90-100% of Applications

Enterprise Apps

Virtualisation

Compute NetworkStorage

Automation

Transformation


Data Centre Transformation Outcomes

InfrastructureVirtualised / Resilient / Open / Optimised /

Modular

BusinessDrives simplicity, integration, and automation / Lower

Costs of acquisition and implementation / Flexibly respond to business changes / Lower Risks / Faster

Time to Revenue

ServiceConvenient, on-demand network access / Shared

pools of configurable resources / Automation / Elasticity / Minimal management effort

ServiceAbstraction

Orchestrate

Automate

Manage

Apps/Desktop

Security

Compute

Storage

Network

FlexPod Platform


A Case Study – Loughborough UniversityHow do you embody the trust of workhorse with the speed and attraction of racehorse?

Distributed Data-centres Under Desks (DDUDS)

And decide is you spend £2.5million on a DC refurbishment just to stand still?


Our solution: introduce FlexPodTM based Mini-Pods


De-risking the cloud and avoiding major build:Loughborough’s FlexPodTM Hybrid Cloud

+

Local FlexPod cloud

2 x ‘mini-pods’Logicalis MPC

Remote cloud

via

Support the Universities core IT Systems

Offer a new agile service model that is competitive and compelling

Cloud Service

‘Fairly green’


Results

• Reduced data center footprint by 80%

• Saved $3.6 million in data center costs

• Hybrid cloud accelerates research

• Gained IT service agility, application portability, data protection

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