Times they are a-changin

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1 Ethernet Alliance Technology Exploration Forum 2013 Times they are a-changin Tom Burns Vice President, General Manager Dell Networking October 15, 2013

2 Challenges in Enterprise, Data Center making Networking COOL (again!) 2 29-Nov-11

3 Challenges Today IT Millions of Global Connections accessing Internal & External Services 3

4 Challenges Today Data Center communication pattern Changing Communication & Traffic Patterns Twitter Communication pattern 4 Source: MIT Technology Review & Gabriela Tavares, Aldo Faisal

5 Challenges Today Networks Automation & Programmability Scale up & out Data Growth Traffic Change East West Networking is Cool Again! 5

6 Deliver Operational Agility Mobile Cloud Agile Enterprise Big Data IT Drivers Agile, Automated & Shared Infrastructure Provisioning time Time in Today future Servers Minutes Networking Weeks Minutes / Months New Requirements towards future vision 6

7 Current Industry State Fragmented & Siloed 7 Confidential 29-Nov-11

8 Fragmented Roads to Future state 3 Separate mind-sets Future Server/hypervisor Build Switches like Servers Re-draw compute block Now Networking Proprietary thinking Commodity Switches + Thin OS Purist & standards Standards, Open Source Greenfield & SDN

9 Fragmented Roads to Future state 3 Separate mind-sets Future Server/hypervisor Build Switches like Servers Re-draw compute block Now Networking Proprietary thinking Commodity Switches + Thin OS Purist & standards Standards, Open Source Greenfield & SDN

10 Build Switches like Servers Simplify the physical switches & Fabric Architecture Main Frame Distributed Servers Chassis Core Distributed Cores Scalable Fabric Designs Optimized for New Workloads and Traffic Patterns 10

11 Re-draw the compute block Compute + storage + networking + management Data center fabric Servers VI/OS Network West 40GbE East Unified Sys Mgmt and Automation Virtual Infrastructure & OS Storage Compute Network Storage Legacy Systems Mgmt

12 Fragmented Roads to Future state 3 Separate mind-sets Future Server/hypervisor Build Switches like Servers Re-draw compute block Now Networking Proprietary thinking Commodity Switches + Thin OS Purist & standards Standards, Open Source Greenfield & SDN

13 Networking Mind Set for future state Proprietary Thinking Dis-aggregated Model Proprietary Architectures & Mgmt Tools Standard Orchestration & Automation tools Hundreds of Protocols Optional 3 rd party SDN / NVO Controller Proprietary OS Thin OS Open Standard HW Proprietary ASICs Merchant Silicon

14 Fragmented Roads to Future state 3 Separate mind-sets Future Server/hypervisor Build Switches like Servers Re-draw compute block Now Networking Proprietary thinking Commodity Switches + Thin OS Purist & standards Standards, Open Source Greenfield & SDN

15 Interoperability with Open Source & Standards Open standards Open source Chair, high-speed working group Founding member + Other Open Source Controllers

16 The promise of Software Defined Enterprise Virtual Management Systems Resource Adapter Quantum Plug-in OpenStack Workloads & apps Object Model & API Control & Orchestration Physical Infrastructure Software Defined Infrastructure Blade Servers L4-L7 Services Rack Servers Storage Arrays 16

17 Call to Action Think a Balanced standardized approach 17

18 Times they are a-changin 1 Challenges in Enterprise IT and Data Center is making Networking COOL Again! 2 Current Industry in a Fragmented State across Vendors, Standards and Segments 3 Need a balanced Approach that holistically looks at IT (versus only Networking) to get to a future state 18 10/17/2013

19 Call to Action, from fragmented to Future Now 19

20 Aligned view across Vendors, Ecosystems & Standards Balanced Approach Future Interoperate L1-7 Holistic View Networking Now Include Ecosystem 20

21 Thank you