Journey to the Software Defined Data Center: EMA Research Results Revealed
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The document discusses the challenges and priorities faced by organizations transitioning to software-defined data centers (SDDCs). It highlights key pain points such as high networking costs, complex integration processes, and the need for centralized management tools. Additionally, it outlines trends, technologies, and the importance of addressing IT silos to enable more efficient application provisioning and resource management.
Journey to the Software Defined Data Center: EMA Research Results Revealed
- 1. Obstacles and Priorities on the Journey to the Software Defined Data Center June 10, 2014 Torsten Volk Research Director Enterprise Management Associates Jim Frey VP of Research Enterprise Management Associates
- 2. Today’s Presenters Slide 2 Jim Frey, Vice President of Research, Network Management Jim has over 25 years of experience in the computing industry developing, deploying, managing, and marketing software and hardware products, with the last 20 of those years spent in network and infrastructure operations and security management, straddling both enterprise and service provider sectors. © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Torsten Volk, Research Director, Systems Management Torsten has over 10 years of conceptualizing and managing highly complex IT projects within the virtualization, cloud, and custom software application development realm. In his past positions, Torsten has helped organizations like The World Bank, Prometric and Cricket Communications evaluate and identify the business value of emerging enterprise technologies.
- 3. Slide 3 Logistics for Today’s Webinar • An archived version of the event recording will be available at www.enterprisemanagement.com • Log questions in the Q&A panel located on the lower right corner of your screen • Questions will be addressed during the Q&A session of the event Questions Event recording
- 4. Are Business Users Happy with IT Services? Slide 4 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00% Less than 4 days 5-14 days More than 15 days Yes, always Yes, sometimes No, typically not No, never Are you happy with IT service delivery? Average time required to deliver IT services Satisfactionw/servicequality anddeliveryspeed
- 5. Key IT Pain Points in 2014 Slide 5 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 42% 39% 38% 38% 34% 33% 31% 30% 28% 28% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% High cost of networking Slow manual processes to reconfigure infrastructure to accommodate change Complexity of integrating external applications and services with the corporate data center High cost of storage Recruiting, training and retaining talent Underutilization of IT infrastructure Slow provisioning of new applications Infrastructure that does not capture application requirements, policies or KPIs Poor quality of service delivery Silos between storage, network and server groups
- 6. What is the Software Defined Data Center? Slide 6 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 49% 46% 44% 42% 41% 39% 38% 37% 36% 36% 34% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Centralized management from a single control point Best-practice, repeatable configurations of software and infrastructure for workload deployment Orchestration and automation to easily deploy applications across silos Operational analytics Easy movement of workloads between external public clouds and internal data center resources Policy driven network provisioning Support for multiple hypervisors Elastic infrastructure for massive scalability Policy driven placement of applications Policy driven storage provisioning Open infrastructure APIs to enable platform choice
- 7. Who Did We Ask and Why? Slide 7 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 69% 58% 57% 57% 56% 55% 54% 51% 50% 48% 46% 45% 42% 41% 39% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% Central management software for physical, virtual and cloud resources Software only storage solution, (IBM Virtual Storage Center, EMC ViPR, DataCore, Atlantis, Virsto, HP StoreVirtual VSA, etc.) Cloud group or task force composed of storage, network and server experts Cross-functional processes to orchestrate provisioning and management of storage, network and server resources Solution for server administrators to provision their own storage volumes Continuous/centralized capacity management for physical, virtual and cloud resources Ability to centrally manage multiple public cloud resources Adoption of multiple hypervisors (Xen, Hyper-V, ESXi, KVM, PowerVM, Oracle, etc.) Policy-based automation of infrastructure for routine adjustments without human intervention Software Defined Networking (virtual overlay network) Software Defined Networking (separated control plane from delivery plane) Multi-virtualization or multi-cloud management solution (ServiceMesh, Enstratius, Convirture, RightScale, vCloud Automation Center, SCALR, etc.) APIs for developers to provision their own app environments (servers, network and storage) Configuration management solutions (Puppet, Opscode Chef, SaltStack, ServiceMesh, etc.) Adoption of object storage (EMC Atmos, AWS S3, SWIFT, Ceph, etc.)
- 8. Who Did We Ask and Why? Slide 8 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. IT Executives IT Operations Staff Line of Business & Business Executives 27% 27% 46% 500 - 2,499 2,500 - 9,999 10,000 or more Role Company Size
- 9. Most Impactful Technology in 2014 Slide 9 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 46% 13% 8% 8% 7% 6% 5% 4% 3% Cloud-based IT services (IaaS, PaaS, and applications in private or public clouds) Centralized capacity management for physical, virtual and cloud environments Converged infrastructure (servers, network, storage and management APIs in one) Infrastructure resources and management based on open standards and open frameworks Automation of operations management tasks Software-defined networking Software-defined storage Application-aware storage (storage automatically provisioned based on application requirements) Application-aware networking (networks automatically provisioned based on application requirements)
- 10. Impact of Exploding Business Unit Requests Slide 10 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 500 - 2,499 employees 2,500 - 9,999 employees 10,000 employees or more Added responsibilities & skills required More cross domain knowledge needed Increase in staff required IT operations staff feels threatened by change Traditional processes are breaking down under the load Business units are bypassing IT and utilize public cloud services instead Traditional IT roles stay unchanged There is no increase in number of requests coming from business units
- 11. Business Drivers of the Software Defined Data Center Slide 11 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 500 - 2,499 employees 2,500 - 9,999 employees 10,000 employees or more Increased security Better business alignment of IT infrastructure More rapid application provisioning Easy movement of applications to the best possible environment Accelerated application lifecycle for faster time to value Central management of application environments across multiple infrastructure silos Simpler and more reliable performance management Improved resource utilization Simpler and more reliable compliance management Lower OPEX No compelling business drivers
- 12. Key Investment Areas Slide 12 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 500 - 2,499 employees 2,500 - 9,999 employees 10,000 employees or more Capacity management tools Multi virtualization and/or cloud management platform Configuration management Centralized management of physical, virtual and cloud resources Infrastructure automation & orchestration Software defined storage Network automation Intelligent resource scheduling Automation of server and application lifecycle management Dynamic application placement solution
- 13. Perceived Risk of Moving Applications Slide 13 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 500 - 2,499 employees 2,500 - 9,999 employees 10,000 employees or more Low Medium High
- 14. Importance of Integrating Public Cloud & Corporate Data Center Slide 14 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 10% 15% 33% 31% 11% Unimportant Slightly important Important Very important Critical 59% 40% 38% 36% 31% 30% 27% 24% 23% 22% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Security Performance Cost Compliance Visibility / transparency Central governance Configuration management Integration with legacy/on-prem infrastructure Integrating management with internal/private cloud resources Software lifecycle management Key Perceived Challenges
- 15. Pain Points when Provisioning Applications Slide 15 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 0% 20% 40% 60% Security Management & governance Capacity planning Speed of provisioning Application performance / service levels Consistent configuration Placement location (physical, virtual, cloud) CAPEX Provisioning errors OPEX None of the above Network Servers Storage
- 16. The Importance of Addressing IT Silos Slide 16 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 2% 1% 15% 48% 34% Very Unimportant Unimportant Neither Important nor Unimportant Important Very Important
- 17. How Software Defined Storage Can Help Slide 17 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 39% 38% 38% 38% 36% 35% 33% 33% 32% 3% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% Provides common data service, high availability, snapshots and deduplication independently of underlying hardware Supports hardware from multiple SAN vendors Is delivered as software, without the need to purchase new hardware Enables policy driven provisioning of storage volumes Supports commodity hardware Centralized management of multi-vendor storage Support of multiple server hypervisors Ability to centrally manage file, block, HDFS and object storage Eliminates gravity of storage None of the above
- 18. Key Networking Challenges Slide 18 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 15% 14% 13% 11% 11% 10% 8% 8% 7% 3% Ensuring network performance Adequately planning network capacity Troubleshooting/monitoring across physical and virtual networking Integrated provisioning across physical and virtual networking Scalability and extensibility of networking equipment Applying/enforcing application-centric security policies Application aware network provisioning and management Rapid adjustment of network paths when applications are moved Too many layers and too much command line coding Rapid provisioning of VLANs
- 19. The Role of OpenStack Slide 19 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 49%51% Yes No 49% 45% 43% 38% 35% 32% 32% 32% 29% 26% 24% 21% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Scalability Cost Feature range Quality of code base Interoperability and portability of application workloads between OpenStack clouds Comprehensive set of APIs / Provide self-service capabilities to internal customers Prefer open source software Freedom of choice in hardware vendors Adoption of the KVM hypervisor Compatibility with Amazon EC2 Large solution ecosystem support Adopted OpenStack as part of a commercial product Business DriversAdoption in 2014
- 20. Key Security Considerations of the SDDC Slide 20 © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. 20% 13% 11% 10% 9% 9% 8% 7% 6% 5%2% Performance impact of firewalls, IPS, or other active enforcement Securing self-service access to application developers/business units Traffic separation based on compliance rules Rapid application provisioning and tear down Configuration drift Identification of what to secure Creation of application centric security policies Maintaining policies during live migration Traffic inspection at the hypervisor level Securing east-west traffic Other (Please specify)
- 21. Conclusion: 2014 is the Year of the Software Defined Data Center © 2014 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.Slide 21 Twitter: @torstenvolk Blog: http://blogs.enterprisemanagement.com/torstenvolk Email: tvolk@enterprisemanagement.com Twitter: @jfrey80 Blog: http://blogs.enterprisemanagement.com/jimfrey Email: jfrey@enterprisemanagement.com