Evolution to the cloud- the role in NASA’s network

Chris JansonCienaAugust 15, 2011

Agenda

IT trends and definition of ‘the cloud’

What ‘the cloud’ brings to NASA

Network evolution to the cloud

Cloud Computing represents the next stage of evolution in the convergence of communications networking

Cloud computing will help government …

Quickly adopt modern applications that improve mission effectiveness

Assure uniformity of information access

Improve agency efficiency and cost effectiveness

Agency/enterprise networking requirements

Source: Enterprise surveys, The Future of Data Center Wide-Area Networking, Forrester Research 5/10

A style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet technologies.

What is ‘the cloud’?

An emerging IT delivery model —cloud computing—can significantly reduce IT costs & complexities while improving workload optimization and service delivery. Cloud computing is massively scalable, provides a superior user experience, and is characterized by new, internet-driven economics.

Prefer to call it x as a Service, where x is a consumable service resource that customers can buy in an on-demand fashion over the network. Cloud Services enable customers to procure infrastructure services where and when they need them and pay for them on a consumption based model

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction

The Consumerization of Information Technology through internet-like consumption & delivery models

X as a Service

server storage

networking

improved economics through sharing

A cloud networking enables you to…

The breaking point

70¢ per $1Spend on IT Maintenance

& Operations

85%Amount of idle computing

capacity in typical data center

1.4xGrowth of IT professionals in

the next 10 years

44xGrowth of information in the

digital universe in the next 10 years

80%Amount of idle capacity in

a storage system

P&C as % of initial CAPEX

10%

75%

Escalating costs, complexity and inflexibility of application-specific

IT infrastructure

wastes precious budget dollars

Arguments for cloud in the agency

Administrator

CIOCFO

Mission Directorates

IT/IS

OperationalValue

StrategicValue

TechnologyValue

EconomicValue

How to NOT own a Data Center

Accessing advanced networking & IT services from trusted partners who

own and operate cloud infrastructures

Business & Operations Model

How to build a Next Gen Data Center

Building your own hyper-efficient data center based on the latest power,

cooling & cloud technologiesArchitecture Model

Solution Integrators

Infrastructure Service

Providers

IT Outsourcing

Services

ICT Technology

Vendors

InternetApplication Providers

Process Consultants

TelecomService

Providers

InternetContent

Providers

IndependentSW Vendors

Evolution from private to external cloud

Data center networking expands to link to cloud resources – private, external, hybrid

Data Center A Data Center B

Data Center C

Private Cloud External Clouds

Cloud Computing

Cloud Storage

SaaS = Software as a service (applications)PaaS = Platform as a service (development)IaaS = Infrastructure as a service

Virtual machine and storage mobility

Enterprise IT applicationsDisaster RecoveryDevelopment and testingWorkload migration

Public & Private Cloud Services

Control

Security

Performance

Scalability

Manageability

Predictability

Dynamic

Flexible

Infrastructure agnostic

On-demand

Pay per use

Granular

Converging Services, Missions & Providers

Content Clouds

IT ServiceClouds

EnterpriseClouds

WholesaleClouds

Collocation

DC as a Service• Real estate,

security• Reliable power,

cooling• Network provider

connectivity

Managed Hosting

Bare Metal as a Service

• Managed servers & storage (dedicated)

• Network provider choice

• High capacity internet

Managed App Services

App as a Service• Business applications• Disaster recovery• Business continuity

On-demand XaaS• Self-service &

elasticity• Compute intensive

& variable workloads

• Vertical market focus

On-demand Services

IT Solution Providers

TelecomService

Providers

InternetContent Providers

Communication Services

BCDR Services

Application Services

Aiming for the clouds - convergence

• PaaS delivers application run-time infrastructures as a plug-in and go experience with SLAs

Platforms & Compute

FrameworksDB Msg DNS

Services Platform

Pol

icy,

Con

trol

Platform-as-a-Service

Layers in the cloud

• SaaS delivers provider-owned application capability as a plug-in and go experience with SLAs

• Apps or Web Services run on the provider’s infrastructureSaaS App

SaaS App ServicesServices

ISV Web Srvcs

Services

Users &Business

Processes

Business Applications(CRM, ERP, UC)

Business Applications(CRM, ERP, UC)

Software-as-a-Service

• Delivers connectivity to global virtualized service resources as a plug-in and go experience with SLAs

• Operates at Internet scale, with Ethernet flexibility and optical performance

Network

Communications

Cloud Backbone

InformationTechnology

Virtualzn Mobility QoSInfrastructure-as-a-Service

• IaaS delivers standardized virtualized computing environments as plug-in and go experience with SLAs

Segments of the cloud

PrivatePrivate HostedPrivateHostedPrivate

Multi-tenantPublic

Multi-tenantPublic

Network Infrastructure

Network Infrastructure

IT Infrastructure

(IaaS)

IT Infrastructure

(IaaS)

Middleware(PaaS)

Middleware(PaaS)

Applications(SaaS)

Applications(SaaS)

Private network buildsSONET, DWDM ringsSwitched & routed nets

Private network buildsSONET, DWDM ringsSwitched & routed nets

Dedicated network capacity & carrier managed servicesPrivate line, switched ethernet & IP VPNs

Dedicated network capacity & carrier managed servicesPrivate line, switched ethernet & IP VPNs

Shared network servicesFixed capacity, reserved, guaranteed and best effort network services

Shared network servicesFixed capacity, reserved, guaranteed and best effort network services

EnterprisesEnterprises Service ProvidersService Providers

Virtualization platformsEnterprise & DC gear (server, storage, switching)

Virtualization platformsEnterprise & DC gear (server, storage, switching)

Dedicated infrastructure servicesManaged virtualized environment

Dedicated infrastructure servicesManaged virtualized environment

IaaS: On-demand and automated provisioning of servers & storage

IaaS: On-demand and automated provisioning of servers & storage

Integration platforms and tools (Oracle DB, Microsoft Azure)

Integration platforms and tools (Oracle DB, Microsoft Azure)

Integration servicesManaged virtualized platform services

Integration servicesManaged virtualized platform services

PaaS: On-demand and automated provisioning of run-time platforms

PaaS: On-demand and automated provisioning of run-time platforms

Virtualized applicationsCRM, ERP, e-mail, communications, collaboration

Virtualized applicationsCRM, ERP, e-mail, communications, collaboration

Applications services with dedicated infrastructure & fixed capacity contracts

Applications services with dedicated infrastructure & fixed capacity contracts

SaaS: On-demand and automated provisioning of SW applications

SaaS: On-demand and automated provisioning of SW applications

Market shifts are driving a new network service delivery paradigm

Market shifts are driving a new network service delivery paradigm

Bought by IT departments and consumers

Bought by software development teams

Bought mainly by IT depts.; consumers for storage

Virtual machine movement use cases

Data Time

Amount of …Largest job takes days even with fast networks

Small job still needs 40-100 Mbps network to get done in less than two days

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Value of fast network to quicklyrespond to urgent needs

Note: assuming 80% of rated speed, no bw degradation

Ethernet

Virtual machine migration

• VM migration through Ethernet path

• L2 domain and trunk termination avoids spanning tree problems

FC

FC

FC

FC

FC

Useraccess

Ethernet

FC

FC

FC

FC

FC

ESOMESOM

Network

802.1Q xSTPRegion boundary

802.1 Qay PBB-TETrunk termination

Data center architecture evolution

Client/Server

ResourceLocation

Glass house Data center(s) Desktop/LAN/Internet

Virtual

I/O Channel end/device end

FICON command chainingFibre Channel FCP (SCSI)iSCSI

FICON zHPF TCWDistributed cacheFCoE/CEE

Network Circuit 3-tier, packet On-demand

Capacity To 45 Mbps, 155 Mbps

To 1G, 10G 10G, 40G, 100G

Data movement

Terminal screenPrinter, etc. Host file transferTape, DASD

Server to PCPC to internetServer file transferStorage replication

Virtual Machine (VM)Server to serverVM load balancingStorage replication

Mainframe Cloud`

Data center utilization evolution

Islands Pools Dynamic On-DemandDirect attached storage, dedicated capacity

Network attached (SAN, NAS, iSCSI), virtual LUNs

Multi-platform virtualized capacity, thin provisioning

Cloud storage for on-demand capacity

Multiple individual servers, inflexible, under utilized, costly

Permanent allocations of virtual servers, some idle, no peak load capacity

Transient allocation of virtual servers, more flexible and higher utilization, some VM idle

Cloud-based compute on-demand, highly automated, user defined and funded compute time

Isolated circuits, costly, low bandwidth

Port grooming to high capacity bandwidth, QoS, virtualized WAN

Long distance VM and storage replication improves mobility

Bandwidth on-demand expands for peak or one time use

Storage

Servers

Network

Evolution to the Cloud

Building the cloud: Virtualized Optical WAN

Enterprise Data Center – New York

Cloud Data Center– Dallas

Enterprise Data Center – Newark

Virtualized Optical WAN

Key attributes:• vCenter Plug-in• Long distance VM• Elastic bandwidth

vCenterServer

PrivateCloud

Enterprise Data Center – San Francisco

Cloud Data Center – Miami

PublicCloud

Deployment models

External

Public Cloud

SaaS EnginesMicrosoft BPOSGoogle AppsSalesforce.com

Infra Service EnginesVirtual serversVirtual storage

Virtualized AppsSAP clusterHosted UCVirtual Desktop

Internal

Private CloudBO/HO

Enterprise #2 Private Cloud

EnterpriseVPN

EnterpriseVPN

HybridCloud

#2

VirtualPrivate DC

Extending Private

Resources

C-VPN

#1

EnterpriseData CentersBO/HO

Enterprise #1 Traditional IT & Public Cloud

EnterpriseVPN

EnterpriseVPN

SaaS Access

Leasing Public Resources (e.g. Amazon EC2)

#3

#3

#3

Virtual PrivateCloud

BO/HO

Enterprise #3 Virtual Private Cloud

Cloud AwareNetwork

Cloud AwareNetwork

C-VPN

Summary

‘The cloud’ can mean different things- Shared computing resource among users with similar needs Natural means to improve operations and efficiency Services, platforms, infrastructure, networks

Agency can utilize cloud applications to consolidate data centers while improving data integrity and reducing cost

Data center networks continue to evolve towards embracing cloud topologies

Agency could decide to partition what’s owned and what’s bought based on application needs

Thank you

You’re not alone in the public cloud……

* Source: http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=922

Public IT Cloud Services Spend – IDC June 2010*

Expected to exceed $55B by 2014 (excludes private cloud spending)

Growth rate of 27% per year

IaaS is the fastest growing segment at 34% per year

Emerging Enterprise-Class services for F1000 CIO

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

Consolidation: Data centers and networks

Consolidation provides opportunity in increase efficiency to manage growth demands while lowering costs

• 100s of data centers to less than 10

• 10s of thousands of applications to a couple of thousand

• 20s of thousands of physical servers to under 10,000 virtual servers

ConsolidationData Center

Topology• Circuit consolidation

eliminates discrete networks and excess equipment

• Bandwidth consolidation to 10 G provides more flexibility

• Private WDM to bypass local loop and provide future scalability

Growth• Mission critical applications growing from 100s to 2-300s for

replication site-to-site • 10-20 PB total storage growing ~50% per year• 2-300s TB under data replication management with daily

replication growth from 10-15 TB now to 3-6 PB

Efficiency

Building the cloud:Dynamic Cloud Networking

Layer 1- 2 architecture provides flatter design architecture to lower costs with more scalable performance Provides flexible, scalable, dynamic bandwidth for high performance cloud requirements

Core Network

EnterpriseData Center

CloudServiceProvider

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Ciena Carrier Ethernet and WDM for L1/2 user access

Ciena on-demand bandwidth forVirtual Machine and storageworkload balancing, migrations

Metro Network

AccessNetwork

UserAccess

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Using the cloud for virtualized storage:Virtual Machine Movement Use Cases

Data TimeAmount of …