The move from Siloed to Shared Infrastructure – and the future of the Data Centre

Dave Wright, Founder/CEO, SolidFire

2 major shifts within Enterprise IT

• Disk Flash

• Siloed Shared Infrastructure

ComputeStand Alone Virtualized Orchestrated

NetworkIsolated Consolidated Converged

Evolution of the Data Center

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Public Cloud Has Raised the Bar

…driving the transformation of Enterprise IT

A Massive Transformation in IT Delivery

Siloed Shared

Isolated Workloads Mixed Workloads

Manual Provisioning Automated

Project Based Self Service

Scale up Scale out

The End of Siloed Data Center Infrastructure

Siloed

Infrastructureture

• Dedicated (Siloed) Infrastructure

• Isolated Workloads

• Inefficient use of Performance / Capacity

• Manually Managed

• Project Based

• Scale-up

A Fundamental Shift In App Design & Delivery

Apps span VMs

Data stored in scalable DBs, cached in memory tiers

Interaction via API,web or mobile

Apps run on a computer

Data stored in files

Interaction via UI

Legacy Data Center Next Generation Data Center

Legacy technology can’t bridge the gap alone

Legacy Data Center Next Generation Data Center

Regardless of the name… ...the outcomes are the same

Next Generation Data Center

Software Defined Data Center

Infrastructure 2.0Cloud

Computing

Private Cloud IT-as-a-Service

Agile Scalable Automated Predictable

“The demands of the NGDC -approach are now being felt strongly by IT organizations of all types; so much so that one can see data centers in the next few years either embracing such a move themselves, or buying their IT services from someone that does.”

Mark Peters, ESG

Next Generation Data Center delivers…

More agile and scalable infrastructure

Rapid application and service deployment

Increased application performance and predictability

Greater automation and end-user self-service

Improved operational efficiency and reduced costs

Getting to the Next Generation Data Center:

Consolidate – Automate – Scale…all with Guaranteed Performance

• Confidently run mixed workloads on a single platform

• Eliminate complex consolidation planning, guaranteed QoS

ensures predictable application performance

• Simplify operational management

• Reduce storage footprint, lower power and cooling costs

Consolidate

Automate

• Rapidly deploy applications & services to meet business needs

• Automated data distribution & load balancing eliminates

downtime, reduces administrative tasks

• Full REST based APIs enable deep integration with

management & orchestration platforms

• Reduce risk of human error

Scale

• Control capital budgets, granularly add capacity as needed

• Simply, granularly, non-disruptively expand infrastructure to

respond to business growth

• Architecture enables linear capacity and IOPs scaling

• Eliminate generational, forklift upgrades with mixed node

scaling

Guaranteed Performance

• Performance virtualization allows you allocate, manage and

guarantee performance to every application

• Provision performance independent of capacity

• Fine-grain QoS ensures your applications get exactly the

performance they need

• Adjust performance on the fly without downtime

SolidFire Platform• Guaranteed Quality of Service

• Complete REST-based API

Automation

• Scale-Out Architecture Design

• In-Line Data Reduction

• Shared Nothing HA Architecture

• FC / iSCSI

• 4-100 nodes in a single cluster

Platform building blocksMix and match nodes to realize your storage vision

Seize Control

SF2405

• Single application acceleration• Private cloud deployment• Lowest starting price• 8.6TB effective capacity• 50,00 IOPS

Smash Silos

SF4805

• Consolidate multiple Apps• Consolidate VM silos• Most cost effective $/GB• 17 TB effective capacity• 50,000 IOPS

Achieve Web Scale

SF9010

• ITaas / IaaS• Large scale SaaS platforms• Highest density platform• 35 TB effective capacity• 75,000 IOPS

Powering the Most Demanding Data Centers in the World

Service Providers Large Enterprise

Consolidate – Automate – Scale…all with Guaranteed Performance