Your infrastructure strategy in a changing world. Steven Verbeke Michael De Bruyn

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1 Your infrastructure strategy in a changing world Steven Verbeke Michael De Bruyn

2 Agenda Setting the scene 5 topics: Shared storage Phone & communications Computing & Blades Networking Converged infrastructure Conclusions

3 A Cloudy Future

6 Gartner: The hype cycle Wearables

7 Gartner: The hype cycle Hybrid cloud

8 Gartner: The hype cycle Autonomous Vehicles

10 Trending: the weather model

11 Shared storage

12 Shared storage: The past The early days: Shared storage for the (bigger) happy few Main drivers: Clustering Capacity

13 Shared storage: The past About 10 years ago: Virtualization: Shared storage s BIG BANG

14 Shared storage: Today Everybody needs a SAN Capacity & performance Tiered solutions: choose the correct algorithm Broader technology stack Iscsi NAS SAS Snapshotting Everybody needs a SAN Single pane of glass

15 Shared storage: The near future Do I still need a SAN? Higher integration levels Lifecycle prolongation Smarter tiering, more ROI in tiered solutions Big Data <> SAN

16 Shared storage: Trends I want a Flash SAN Full flash price drop crash Tiering: technology obsolete The solution for all your performance issues. Invest in full flash, not in performance development Cloud storage

17 Communications

18 Evolution in how we communicate: the past Lot of hardware Dedicated devices Desktop integration was rare and difficult eg. Operator consoles

19 Evolution in how we communicate: Today Communication over IP Virtualisation (less hardware) First grown up UC solutions BYOD What about cloud?

20 Evolution in how we communicate: Tomorrow 1 user with several devices UC Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) On premises solution connected with 1 big cloud solution for collaboration Mixed Cloud environment

21 Evolution in how we communicate: Expectations User will choose 1 device for all type of communication Smoothless integration with the Business and/or Operating support solutions Software and Application development more important!

22 Computing & Blades

23 Computing & Blades: The past Up until 10 years ago, most of the Wintel servers were physical systems, in a rack & tower combo Systems were scaled to specific workloads Server management was non-existing, except for monitoring Systems were often replaced in sync with the application lifetime

24 Computing & Blades : Today Most rack servers have been replaced by blades Blades drivers: Cost savings Central management Wintel management Wire once More uniform server park: less server types: Virtualization Application/OS lifecycle no longer linked to HW life cycle Intelligence on HW level, not in drivers or agents

25 Computing & Blades : The near future Blades will remain the standard form factor Driver for blades shifts (expands) Cloud burst marketing hassle-free replacements blades profiling Server hardware becomes a commodity, the feature set becomes less important and shifts to applicationbased features Differentiator is the endpoint connectivity feature set, not the blade

26 Computing & Blades : Trends Hypervisor type becomes less important & included with the hardware? Shift to the cloud, following the application lifecycle: The cloud journey Converged infrastructure: compute, storage & networking OS & workload virtualization Process level scheduling

27 Networking

28 Evolution of the workspace: the past 1 office 1 desk Small bandwidths

29 Evolution of the workspace: today Flex desks in the office & Homeworking 50% Wireless of the devices are wireless Cloud?

30 Evolution of the workspace: Tomorrow #GenMobile believes in working anytime, anywhere in purchasing mobile devices more than other groups

31 Evolution of the workspace: Future Expectations Infrastructure will always be needed No bandwidth issues towards the cloud 1 or 2 devices that can do it all what about management, QoS and Security?

32 Software Defined Network

33 Software Defined Security

34 Gartner: The hype cycle Software-Defined Security

35 Converged infrastructure

36 Converged infra: The past Reserved feature for mainframe systems, virtually non existing in the wintel world

38 Converged infra: Today Different approach, depending on the vendor Offerings from both hardware, software or hybrid vendors. Pricing versus features Continuously moving market with a huge amount of start-ups & lots of initiatives by the existing vendors Journey approach: needs analysis Under the hood: complex programming

39 Converged infra: The near future Technology under pressure: full flash Software vendors might get the upper hand (VMware, Microsoft, ) Startups: the happy few will remain, but independently?

40 Converged infra: Trends Converged with a cloud tier VM s will become dynamic workloads, running anywhere Differentiator will be the cloud integration feature set Small datacenter-in-a-box with a cloud break-out

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