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The Future of Data CentersMatt Lawson – NetApp Principal Architect

March 2016

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State of Today’s Data Center

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Cloud –sets new service

expectations

Traditional infrastructures can’t keep up – data centers need to modernize

Mobile and social –driving new apps and

24-hour access

Data is exploding –90% of all data was generated in the last

two years

SSD vs. SAS Disk prices are now at a tipping point

In 12 months RAW SSD

Can be cheaper than

SAS Disks

5:1 Dedup and compression

Closes this gap

Accelerating Critical Databases

SQL 2003/Windows 2003 retirement

Oracle

SAP/HANAH

VDI Projects

Economics and user Experience

Efficiency vs Flash

Analytics applications/packages

Hadoop, SAS, Splunk

Server Virtualization (tier 2 economies of scale)

Other – make something not suck

Flash Customer Use Cases

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The case for Converged Infrastructure

Do It Yourself

vs. Ready Made!5

+ ++ +Business Values:

Simplified IT

Reduced Total Cost

Increased agility

Reduced risk

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Validated Designs• Cisco® (Application Centric Infrastructure,

Cisco Nexus® Data Center Switches, Secure

Enclaves, VMDC)

• Cloudera Hadoop

• Hortonworks Data Platform

• Microsoft (Private Cloud, Exchange,

SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V)

• NetApp® SnapProtect®, MetroCluster™

• Oracle (Oracle RAC, JD Edwards,

Oracle Linux, Oracle VM Server)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

SAP Applications

SAP HANA

• VMware (VMware vSphere,

Horizon View)

• Citrix (XenDesktop, XenServer)

• Many more…

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Customer Challenges with Public Cloud

“I’m locked in and can’t get my data back!”

Low entry cost; overwhelmingly expensive as they grow

Hypergrowth companies can’t keep up with cost—some pull things

back in-house

In some cases, no ability to pull back in-house

“I have no negotiation leverage!”

No price leverage, no negotiation power

Can’t move data easily between service providers

Customer asks

Enable customers to move data around in the cloud

Deliver the agility and flexibility promised by the cloud

Provide a viable option through a data fabric layer (abstraction layer)

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