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© 2009 IBM Corporation

Ruoho HarriMyyntipäällikkö

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Dynamic Infrastructure –Role of Datacenter Networking

Cisco Expo 8.9.2009

© 2009 IBM Corporation2

Cisco Datacenter Partner of the Year 2009

What are the typical challenges for IT departments?

Costs & Service Delivery

Business Resiliency & Security

EnergyRequirements

Environmental compliance & governance mandates

Explosion in volume of data and information

Power & thermal issues inhibit operations

Difficulty in deploying new applications and services

Rising costs of systems and networking operations

Rising energy costs & rising energy demand

Landslide of compliance requirements

Security of your assets & your clients’ information

Systems and applications need to be available

Challenges

Environmental compliance & governance mandates

Explosion in volume of data and information

Power & thermal issues inhibit operations

Difficulty in deploying new applications and services

Rising costs of systems and networking operations

Rising energy costs & rising energy demand

Landslide of compliance requirements

Security of your assets & your clients’ information

Systems and applications need to be available

Challenges



Today’s Infrastructure

Pools of independent resources connected by dedicated networks

Systems management by pool, not end-to-end

System availability delivered through redundancy

Firewall Servers

RoutersSwitches

Special Purpose

Appliances

Directory Servers

Application Servers

Web Servers

Data Servers

Storage

Mainframes

File/Print Servers



Consolidation and virtualization

Dynamic / CloudVirtualizationScale-Out Complexity Consolidation

Net

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Device sprawl

Device virtualization

System virtualization

System provisioning and automation



Networks are the cornerstone for IT consolidation and virtualization initiatives

Network performance and capacity requirements

Security and resiliency

Rapid provisioning

Visibility, control, and automation across all IT resources

Server, storage and data center consolidation & virtualization increase the demands on networks



Architectural Model for Dynamic Infrastructure®

DEVELOPERS OPERATORSCORE ENTERPRISE ADMINISTRATION

SERVICE REQUESTORS

SERVICE MANAGEMENT

APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE

SERVERS STORAGE NETWORK

VIRTUAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE

SERVERS STORAGE NETWORK FACILITIES

PHYSICAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE

END USERS

END USERS

RESILIEN

CE

BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE

END USERSSERVICE

CREATORS

INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE



Creating a Future Systems View of Infrastructure

Virtualized computing and storage services.

Connected by a high performance converged network data fabric –allowing LAN and Storage traffic to share common network.

Automated and managed by service management for complete visibility and control of heterogeneous pools of physical and virtual assets and services.

Create value for clients through tighter integration between servers, storage, networking and software.

CONSOLIDATED SPECIAL PURPOSE APPLIANCES

DATA CENTER BACKBONE

VIRTUALIZED STORAGE

VIRTUALIZED SERVERS

SERVICE MANAGEMENT



Building a dynamic infrastructure.Service Management

Virtualization

Energy Efficiency

Business Resiliency

Security

Information Infrastructure

Provide visibility, control and automation across all the business and IT assets to deliver higher value services.

Maximizing the value of critical business and IT assets over their lifecycle with industry tailored asset management solutions.

Leadership virtualization and consolidation solutions that reduce cost, improve asset utilization, and speed provisioning of new services.

Address energy, environment, and sustainability challenges and opportunities across your business and IT infrastructure.

Maintaining continuous business and IT operations while rapidly adapting and responding to risks and opportunities.

End to end industry customized governance, risk management and compliance solutions.

Helping businesses achieve information compliance, availability, retention, and security objectives.

Asset Management



Skills shift from operations (break / fix) to IT Business AnalystsBreak down silos and organize around IT service delivery Paradigm shift toward shared environment

Open standards─ Open management across server,

storage, networking─ Open networking standards

Role of systems and networking in recentralization Automation

StandardizationDisciplined Repeatable and documented processes

– Change and configurationmanagement

– Process automation

This transformation spans across people, process and technology.



What is the relationship between Datacenter Networking

DCN solution is part of a broader Dynamic Infrastructure offeringDCN is focused on enabling a dynamic and converged network infrastructure

Storage

Servers

Data Networking

Services

Integrated management of virtual and physical systems, storage and networking

SAN

ManagementSoftware

Middleware and Applications

Highly distributed and scalable Application and Integration Middleware

Extreme virtualization with massive scalability and

advanced security

High performance links connecting to virtual and

converged networks

Extremely fast, scalable and virtualizable storage

solutions

Full life-cycle services expertise that spans the

entire data center infrastructure



Networks for dynamic infrastructures must become flexible, responsive and managed together with the rest of the IT infrastructure

Switch and specialized device sprawl Switch and specialized

device virtualizationNetwork

virtualizationNetwork services

provisioning

Server and storage provisioning

Server network access virtualization

Server and storagedevice virtualizationServer and

storage sprawl

Scale-out complexity Consolidation Virtualization Dynamic

Network

Server/Storage

Vision without action is a daydream Action without vision is a nightmare



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