Back to The Future V

Editor's Notes

• #4: Moving quickly into 3rd gen apps and next-gen infrastructure
• #5: Here are some visible examples of how 3rd platform technology is changing the way we live at home, drive and work. Nest who makes among other technologies makes a wirelessly controlled, automated, mobile device integrated thermostat. Their strategy is to “…take the unloved products in your home and make simple, beautiful, thoughtful things”. This amazing technology allows you to control you thermostat from your phone, save energy through automating your climate with your schedule and report where you saved or could save more energy. Telsa is changing how we interface with our car. Aside from making some amazing premium electric vehicles, they also have linked your mobile device to your car with an App that allows you to locate your vehicle, lock and unlock it and see how much your car has charged. Recently Telsa was faced with a challenge of fixing the drive height of the car that was causing battery problems. This could have caused an of expensive and inconvenient recall to change parts. Instead, Telsa solved the problem with a software update that told the car to ride higher off of the ground. If you work in IT things are changing too. In IT the goal used to be to get all of your systems working and then leave then don’t touch them unless they break. Now, some IT shops test their application and infrastructure resilience using an App called Chaos Monkey. This app randomly shuts down production systems in your IT environment to ensure that they can tolerate outages. Purposely injecting failure into your production IT environment is certainly a new and aggressive way to ensure availability and Service Level Agreements. This is just a small example of the exciting 3rd platform trends we are seeing in technology. Let’s take a look at what 3rd platform is and why it is so compelling.
• #7: Add our storage products to the picture
• #11: One answer from VMware designed to alleviate complexity is provide the same IT Storefront to customers as the Cloud. Add on to that storefront an easy to use IT portal for management and orchestration. Below that have an abstraction layer that hides the complexity of the various infrastructure components while providing comprehensive control and management capabilities. This layer is called software defined data center. Each individual infrastructure component has an integration point. Examples of this include: Vmware vSphere for server abstraction vShield for Security vCloud for cloud management An example of Software Defined Networking is the acquisition by VMware of Nicira, now called NSX, which provides an abstraction layer for the network And Software Defined Storage is the abstraction layer for storage manufacturers to link into the software defined data center. EMC’s specific solution for software defined storage is called ViPR.
• #14: If this growth rate continues after 2016 it mean the market size difference between P2 and P3 less than 12% and by 2018 P3 is substantially bigger than P2.
• #15: The point we want to make is that there are lots of different application patterns, content types and capabilities implied by the 3rd platform. What they all share is the need to: Scale effortlessly: Ability to scale across nodes, racks and data centers Store the data efficiently Anywhere Access and Active-Active Architecture Single global namespace, strong consistency across - DCsLower Opex Economics to match with public clouds or better - No single points of failures Designed to handle failures at disk, node, rack, DC levels - Broad industry standards support No vendor lock-in
• #16: This is a high level look at Pivotal You can see across the bottom that Pivotal Is More than just EMC’s vision. It has a diverse group of investing companies who believe that a new Clooud Development platform is needed for today’s agile development needs. Pivotal includes Cloud Foundry which is the first comprehensive, multi-cloud, platform as a service, which allows developers to push applications to any supported cloud without having to re-write that applications. Paul Maritz, CEO of Pivotal, calls this mix of private and public cloud offerings “the new hardware”, and Cloud Foundry an Cloud Operating System, or Linux for the Cloud. On top of this new Hardware and Cloud OS sits what is being called a data lake, which consists of vast amounts of different data sources and analytics tools used to extract business value from data. Above all of this is a robust and Agile Software development platform that builds 3rd platform applications that combine business logic and business value from the data lake into compelling Apps for businesses and users.
• #17: One Data center, and one common infrastructure that supports 2nd and 3rd platform, that gives users, developers and administrators the public cloud “flexible, fast and easy to use and consume” experience, while maintaining the control and management needed by IT administrators and organizations.
• #19: Different personas in the datacenter require specific tools, data and metrics. The Storage Team needs to understand capacity utilization and trends, troubleshoot performance issues and ensure configuration compliance to assure service levels. With greater understanding and visibility they’re better prepared to optimize their resources, improve agility and ROI. The Operations Team need end-to-end data center visualization to quickly identify root cause and act on issues while optimizing performance and utilization. The Management Team needs to have access to executive level dashboards that synthesize the information they need to make better decisions for the business for controlling costs while still achieving SLAs. The Storage Resource Management Suite, Service Assurance Suite, and ViPR, share a common user interface and reporting technology that enable IT organizations to consolidate data and create custom dashboards and reports that meet the unique needs of each user and role.