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Enterprise Adoption: Enabling the Next Generation IT Infrastructure

Cheryl Doninger

SAS

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New world of distributed computing

Old World New World

Static

Silo

Physical

Manual

Application

Dynamic

Shared

Virtual

Automated

Service

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A new world of opportunity and challenges

Providers: Deployment,

management and change at scale

Users: Communication, collaboration and

commerce at scale

Infrastructure

Applications

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Industry is still “storming, forming, and norming” on the terms

70% of respondents said there is a better term than ‘grid’ to describe their distributed computing architecture

Source: 451 Group, January 2007

Grid Computing - The State of the Market

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… as the technology threads are brought together

Grid & Virtualization

Grid & Virtualization

Scale-out multi-core, blades,

clusters …

Scale-out multi-core, blades,

clusters …

Process Automation

Process Automation

SOA & SaaS SOA & SaaS

Integrated platforms for

distributed systems & services

Integrated platforms for

distributed systems & services

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Grid and related concepts - enable the next generation IT infrastructure

Data in any format, at any location, accessed and integrated while

masking complexity

Business & IT processes automated and adjusted

based on policy

Applications/Services abstracted from the underlying

IT infrastructure.

Resources shared and aggregated to support dynamic workloads.

Grid

SOA

Virtualization

Automation

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Adoption is progressing in stages

Scientific/ Technical Grids

Commercial/ Enterprise Grids

Early Deployments

Momentum Building

(Proven Solutions)

Broad Adoption

We are somewhere around here

Pervasive Adoption

“breaking through non-standard barriers”

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Popular Grid usage patterns are emerging …

Early Deployments

Momentum Building(Proven Solutions)

Broad Adoption

HPC-oriented solutions for

research, engineering, and LOB

Shared & service-oriented infrastructures

that span the data center (s)

Multi-organizational collaborations and

regional grid infrastructures

“Cloud” and emerging Utility Providers …

Automotive, Aerospace design …

Physics, Weather Forecasting …

Research, Engineering …

Enterprise Data Centers …

Finance, Pharma, Energy …

Barriers

• Social

• Licensing

• Standards

• Education

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Grids and Next Generation IT Infrastructure

Shared

• Break the static links between applications, data and the underlying infrastructure

• Manage resources and relationships based on workload, automated processes, and policies

• Move toward enterprise-wide shared services that support multiple lines-of-business & partners

SharedCurrent state Future state

Silos Shared

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Setting the Scene

• “This Gig is Bigger than Grids: from HPC to Service Orientation”John Barr, the 451 Group

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Grid and Enterprise Applications – Paths to Adoption

Application On-boarding• “An Introduction to Grid Application On-

boarding”Nick Werstiuk, Platform Computing

• “Before On-boarding: Board-Rooming”Julia Wells, BEinGRID

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Grid and Enterprise Applications – Paths to Adoption

Managing Infrastructure• “An Introduction to Managing Infrastructure”

Paul Strong, eBay

• “Managing Infrastructure – A Case Study”Steve Lister, Novartis

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Grid and Enterprise Applications – Paths to Adoption

Relevance of StandardsChris Smith, OGF VP of Standards

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Grid and Virtualization

• “Siamese Twins: Grid and Virtualization”Ravi Subramaniam, Intel

• “Virtualization”Orran Krieger, VMWare

• “Virtualization”Jason McGee, IBM

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Speaker Panel Discussion

• ModeratorGordon Jackson, DataSynapse