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Neil A Trevains MBCS MIEEE, Solutions Architect, UK Data Center Practice

26 October 2017

Hybrid Platform Architectures as the Foundation forDigital Transformation

The Cisco Digital Core

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Source: European Commission - Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

“Digital transformation is characterised by a fusion of advanced technologies and the integration of physical and digital systems, the predominance of innovative business models and new processes, and the creation of smart products and services.”


Perpetual Evolution™ – McKinsey & Company

“… In effect, these architectural approaches enabled what we call

periodic revolution in the business and IT architecture—“big-bang”

changes every decade or so. But operating in today’s digital world

requires a much different architecture. The new architecture must

enable companies to make continual changes in their business

process and IT infrastructure. As such, it is an architectural approach

that we refer to as Perpetual Evolution™.”

Source: Rethinking the technology foundation for digital transformations

McKinsey & Company, February 2017


Analytics at the Core of Digital Transformation

1. Determine the existing baseline

– from both an operational and

user experience perspective

2. Continuously monitor the

increasingly dynamic changes

being made

3. Assess whether the change has

been successful

4. REITERATE!

Current state

Desired future state

(continually evolving)


Cloud


Cloud Adoption On The Rise…

Almost 68%of organisations surveyed

use public and/or private

cloud, a 61% increase from

the previous year (2015)

30%of organisations surveyed

have migrated, or plan to

migrate, workloads to the

cloud

40%is the expected rise in on-

premises private cloud

spending in the next two

years by the organisations

surveyed

Source: ‘Cloud Going Mainstream: All Are Trying, Some Are Benefiting; Few Are Maximising Value’, An IDC InfoBrief, Sponsored by Cisco, September 2016


… Public Cloud Usage May Be Scaling Back

Source: ‘When Clouds Connect: How Hybrid IT Is Transforming Enterprises’, Forbes Insights – In Association With Cisco, 2016

27%

38%

35%

Surveyed organisations who have completelydiscontinued use of at least one public cloud service

Surveyed organisations who have scaled back someof their workloads / transactions through a publiccloud service

Surveyed organisations who have not discontinued orscaled back any public cloud services


Public Cloud Usage Scaling Back – Why?

65% of surveyed organisations are discontinuing or

scaling back their use of public cloud, due to:

43%

Concerned

about lock-in

38%

Security

issues or

concerns

£££ 58%

Costs per

transaction

have

increased

62%

Multi-cloud

strategy was

crucial

42%

Data

sovereignty

Source: ‘When Clouds Connect: How Hybrid IT Is Transforming Enterprises’, Forbes Insights – In Association With Cisco, 2016

71% of surveyed organisations believe that it would take 3 years or less to break even (from a total

cost outlay perspective) if workloads were repatriated from the public cloud


Profile Of A Cloud Optimised Organisation

Source: CloudView Survey, IDC, February 2016

Multicloud Adoption

84%expect to choose from

multiple cloud providers

DevOps

80%of mature cloud

organisations practice

DevOps for cloud

environments

Containers

66%believe Docker containers

are important to their cloud

strategy

Microservices

79%perform custom cloud

application development

using a microservices

architecture

Governance

82%implemented collaborative

business / IT cloud

governance policies

Cloud IoT Apps

62%have deployed cloud-based

IoT applications, with 50%

of those organisations

choosing a hybrid cloud to

host the applications

Cloud Security Apps

40%of mature cloud

organisations consume

cloud delivered

management of security

devices, located on- or off-

premises


Intent-based Data Center


1. Modernize infrastructure

3. Build private Cloudand PaaS

2. Open and automated

4. Use public Cloud

Converged HyperConverged

IaaS SaaSManaged

6. P

erv

asiv

e s

ecurity

5. P

erv

asiv

e a

naly

tics

Network Compute Storage

Capturing Customer Intent

4a. Common Application Blueprints

4b. Extend Common Policy Model

4c. Instrumented for Developers and DevOps

Private


Benchmark each

<app-cloud> combination

Every packet | Every flow

Every line of code

Machine learning

to optimize

Constantly

Learning


Multicloud App mobilityRun-time provisioning On-demand capacity

Constantly

Adapting


Zero-trust modelMicro-segmentation

based isolationSecure data in transit

Constantly

Protecting


Putting It All Together

Modernize Data Center

On-prem/Co-lo

Policy Driven, Openand Automated

Multi-Cloud

Public SaaSManaged Service

Pe

rva

siv

e A

naly

tics

Common Application Blueprints

Extend Common Policy Model

Instrumented for Developers and DevOps

Private

CloudCenter

ACI

Policy

Intent-Based Data Center

AppD

Nexus UCS HyperFlex

Policy

Pe

rva

siv

e S

ecurity

Te

tra

tion

Te

tra

tion

and

Cis

co

Se

curity


Cisco Data Center Reference Architecture

Cisco Prime Services Catalog

Cisco Nexus

Cisco HyperFlex

Cisco UCS

Cisco MDS

Cisco AzureStack

Cisco Tetration Analytics

Cisco Security Portfolio

Cisco CloudCenter

Cisco Turbonomics

AppDynamics


Cisco ACI

Cisco ACI

Cisco DCNM

Cisco Intersight

Cisco UCS-Director


AppDynamics

IT services consumption

Multicloud

Private cloud/PaaS Integration

DC Infrastructure

Management and automation

SecurityAnalytics

Backed by 150+ eco-system partner companies


Pillars of Cisco’s Data Center Engineering Strategy

Hardware innovationApplication awareMulticloud First Capture Intent


The Results…


The Results Of An Optimized Cloud Strategy

Source: CloudView Survey, IDC, February 2016

of optimised cloud

organisations use

Private Cloud

of optimised cloud

organisations use

Public Cloud

92%95%

77%reduction in cost of

IT operation

72%improved ability to

meet SLAs

87%reduction in time to

provision IT

services

200%strategic allocation

of IT budget

11%incremental

revenue growth

HYBRID approach is essential to an optimised strategy

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