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Data Center Architecture Trends In The Era Of Big Data Charlie Dai, Principal Consulting Analyst May 25, 2014

Big Data Drives The Age of The Customer Transform the customer experience Turn big data into business insights Age of the Customer Embrace the mobile mind shift Become a digital disruptor 2014 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 3

Consumes Distributes Big Data Ecosystem In China Evolves To Adaptive Intelligence Data Aggregators Data Originators Intermediary Primary Data Analyzers Data Clients 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 4

Adaptive Intelligence Drives Data Center Transformation Adaptive Intelligence Real-time, multidirectional sharing of data that delivers contextually appropriate, authoritative knowledge to maximize business value Data Oriented Workload Software Defined Infrastructure An integrated abstraction layer that defines a complete data center by means of a layer of software that presents the resources of the data center as pools of virtual and physical resources, and allows them to be composed into arbitrary user-defined services. 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 5

Transform To Workload-Centric Architectural Design Past Presence Future 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 6

Data Center Virtualization Is Strategic Priority Of Enterprise Investment Hardware & Infrastructure 2013 Enterprise IT Spending Which of the following initiatives are likely to be your firm's/organization's top hardware/it infrastructure priorities over the next 12 months? Maintain or implement broad use of server virtualization Consolidate IT infrastructure via server, storage, network virtualization and consolidation 52% 52% 25% 25% System management Automate the management of virtualized servers to gain flexibility and resiliency 48% 20% Storage Purchase or upgrade disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities 42% 24% Data center networking equipment Consolidate IT infrastructure via data center consolidation 42% 21% Server and server OS Data center and IT facilities Develop a comprehensive cloud strategy for IT infrastructure Build an internal private cloud operated by IT 41% 36% 21% 19% High priority Critical priority Source: Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2013 Base: 878, 842 and 1,083 Enterprise IT Hardware Decision Makers Use public cloud platform(s) (IaaS and/or PaaS) at a service provider 33% 16% 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 7

Virtual x86 Server Instance Will Dominate Data Center By 2017 What percentage of your firm's total x86 server OS instances are in each of the following categories? On physical server not virtualized 26% 43% On relatively static virtual servers On a dynamic private cloud pool of virtual 9% 16% 31% 31% 26% of servers will be physical Traditional hosting offering Hosted private cloud IaaS 7% 8% 11% 5% 27% will be in a private cloud 2013 2017 Outsourced service provider 4% 5% Public cloud IaaS 3% 5% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% Source: Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2013 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 8

SDN Gets Attention From Enterprises And Will Grow Fast What are your firm s plans to adopt the following data center technologies? Software Defined Network Expanding / upgrading implementation Implemented, not expanding 8% 12% 34% enterprises will implement or expand SDN Planing to implement in the next 12 months Planing to implement in a year or more 12% 14% 72% enterprises are interested, plan to implement or has implemented SDN Interested, but no plan 26% Don't know / Not interested 28% Source: Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2013 Base: 976 enterprise IT hardware decision makes from North America and Europe 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 9

Respect The Diversity Of Building Blocks For Your Infrastructure 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 10

Leverage Cloud To Enable Complex Data Workload Scenarios 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 11

Build The Future Oriented Software Defined Infrastructure Service Design Cloud Gateway Service Deployment And Runtime Virtual Resource Pools Foreign Resource Interface Local Physical Resource Pools Enterprise Mgmt. Gateway 2013 Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited 12

Thank you Charlie Dai ckundai@forrester.com +86 13910652725