From electricity to storage - utility models throughout history and the new cloud generation.
Frank Berry is founder, CEO and senior analyst at IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source of testing, research and analysis covering data center infrastructure.
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1920 “Electrify Your
Home” Campaign
Your House is Not Electrically
Modern Without the Following:
Electric name and house number plate
Porch lights
Doorbell
Automatic door-opener and latch
Burglar alarm
Electric oven
Electric dishwasher
Electric water heater
Electric waffle iron
Electric shaving mug
Electric curling iron
Electric hair dryer
Electric massager
Electric bed warmer
Electric toaster
Electric percolator
Sewing machine
Vacuum cleaner
Washing machine
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1921 Article About New Technology
“…the owner reads all the meters and sells that current back to the tenants. If the owner chooses not to handle this
responsibility, he or she can hire a meter company to come in and read meters, bill tenants, adjust disputes, and
maintain the house meter equipment — all for a fixed rate…”
The authors find this arrangement “very satisfactory because it frees up the owner from the drudgery of bookkeeping
and electrical maintenance, and metering company specialists soon become experts in this work.”
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Open Source
Cloud
Automation
Strategy Benefit
Make deployments
automated
Without automation
impossible
Expose well designed
APIs to users
Offloads presentation
complexity to clients
Remove state for mid
tier services
Allows easy elastic scale
out
Push temporal state to
client and caching tier
Leverage clients, avoids
data tier overload
Use partitioned data
storage
Data design and storage
scales with HA
Utility
Grid
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Market for Private Infrastructure
Commercial Versions of Open Source SW and White Box HW
Traditional Switch White Box Switch Brite Box Switch
Cisco OS
Cisco ASIC
Cumulus OS
Broadcom ASIC
Cumulus OS
Broadcom ASIC
$300-$400 per port $50-$125 per port $150-$300 per port
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Scalability
At the 2014 AWS re:Invent, Amazon VP James Hamilton
said AWS deploys in one day the infrastructure needed to
support Amazon’s ecommerce business when it was at $7B
of revenue per year. And they did it 365 times last year.
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Think Differently, Act Differently
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Core Business
IT
100%
0%
Spending
No motivation for disruption because the impact of
IT savings on overall P&L is small. And when IT has
a big impact on core business continuity,
organizations take the safest, lowest risk approach.
Industry
IT Spending
as a % of
Revenue
Software Publishing & Internet Services 6.7%
Banking & Financial Services 6.3%
Media & Entertainment 5.0%
Education 4.7%
Professional Services 4.2%
Healthcare Providers 4.2%
Telecommunications 3.8%
Insurance 3.2%
Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences & Medical
Products
3.2%
Utilities 2.8%
Transportation 2.6%
Industrial Electronics and Electrical Equipment 2.5%
Consumer Products 1.9%
Industrial Manufacturing 1.7%
Retail & Wholesale 1.5%
Chemicals 1.3%
Food & Beverage Processing 1.3%
Energy 1.1%
Construction, Materials and Natural Resources 1.0%
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Putting the hyper in hyperscale required new
technologies, products and practices
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Million Server Club Servers
>2M
>1M
>1M
Source: IT Brand Pulse Source: WSJ
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Disruptive innovation was not an option for
hyperscale profitability
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Amazon operating income in Q1’14 was $146M.
A 40% savings in IaaS spending due to use of
open-source technology = $400M or $1.6B/yr.
Facebook revenue was $10.8B and net income was
$1.07B in 3 years 2010-2012. During that period they
reported savings of $1.2B by doing their own designs
“Thanks to OCP and related efficiency work, we
announced that we’ve saved $2 billion in infrastructure
costs over the course of the last three years.”
- Facebook, March, 2015
Other
IT
(Core Business)
100%
0%
Spending
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Free to Implement Software Defined Data Centers
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Predominant Architecture in 10 Years
Software Defined Data Center
Server Hypervisors
Storage & Networking Apps
Servers
Predominant Architecture Today
Servers Networking Storage
Any Hypervisor
Any Server
Vendor-Specific SW
Vendor-Specific HW
Vendor-Specific SW
Vendor-Specific HW
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Free to Innovate with Software-based Services
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Cloud
Provider
Develop, Deploy, PublishService-Centric
Innovation
Cycle
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Standards
Organizations
Equipment
Vendors
Storage
Demand
Drive
Develop
Implement
Sell
Deploy
Hardware-
Centric
Innovation
Cycle
Services over bare metal networks speed deployment of new technology.
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Storage and Networking Become Apps
App Server Clusters
Emai
l
DB
VD
I
Software Defined Storage Clusters NFV App Clusters
Cloud Operating System Clusters
50
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Software Defined Servers in 10 Years (Actual)
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0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
New Workloads Virtualized
New Workloads Not Virtualized
Source: Gartner
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Software Defined Networking in 10 Years
(Forecast)
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Enterprise SDN
Traditional Enterprise Networking
Hyperscale SDS
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
Source: Wikibon & IT Brand Pulse
SDN Orchestration
NFV Apps
Open Networking Switches
Commercial versions of open source
based SDN Orchestration and NFV
Apps, Open Networking Switches
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Software Define Storage in 10 Years (Forecast)
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Enterprise SDS
Traditional Enterprise Storage
Hyperscale SDS
SDS Apps
Storage-as-a-Service
White Box Servers
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
Source: Wikibon and IT Brand Pulse
Commercial versions of
Enterprise SDS
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Green Field Blue Sky Market for IaaS
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Telecom
Services
IaaSIT Services
Other
Enterprise
Software
Data Center
Systems
2015 Global IT Spending ($3.8 Trillion)
$16.6B
$143B
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Vendor Switch
Past: Enterprise HW Defined Ecosystem
Switch OS
Appliances
Router
Firewall
Load Balancer
Etc.
Vendor NOS
Orchestration
Monitoring
Vendor Storage Software
Failover
DeDup
Compression
Etc.
Hypervisor
Vendor or Merchant Switch ASIC
Vendor Storage System Vendor Server
Cisco & Dwarves EMC & Dwarves HP, IBM, Dell, Lenovo
Merchant Server OS
Merchant Server Processor
Block, File, Object
Merchant Server Processor
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White Box Server
Cloud Platform
Future: Enterprise SW Defined Ecosystem
NFV
Router
Firewall
Load Balancer
Etc.
SDN
Orchestration
Controller
Switches
Monitoring
Software Defined Storage
Block
File
Object
Failover, Dedup, Compression
Hypervisor
Merchant Server OS
Bare Metal Server
Merchant Server Processor
White Box Switch
Merchant Switch OS
Bare Metal Switch
Merchant Programmable Switch ASIC
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Let’s start with data center technology before hyperscales were born.
I know I didn’t think of it this way before, but in comparison to hyperscale IT:
Data center technology changed slowly.
The storage, server, networking and software platforms incorporated a lot of proprietary features.
And that made the hardware, software and service comparatively expensive.
The reason why Ethernet, and enterprise IT, has been so predictable, is there has not been a business case to disrupt the rate of change.
Even at the high end of spending by industry, IT spending as a percent of the total is less than 7%.
That means a 10% cost saving on 7% amounts to .7%, not enough to drive dramatic change.
These facts simply reinforced a low-risk approach to IT which was designed to protect the core business.
Then the big bang. When hyperscale companies started designing their own systems and sharing the software and hardware designs, innovation exploded.
Again, we only have to follow the money to understand why innovation exploded. It was urgently needed for the companies to grow profitably.
Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
To put their requirements into perspective let’s look at the scope of their server connectivity.
While the challenge of really large enterprises is to deploy and manage tens of thousands of servers, the largest hyperscales are managing millions of servers.
Disruptive innovation is also required for companies like Amazon and Facebook to achieve profitable growth.
That’s because unlike other industries, most of their spend is on IT, and cost savings can mean the difference between profit and loss.
That was case for Amazon in Q1 of 2014, and true for Facebook from 2010 through 2012.
The disruption that made hyperscale and profitable growth possible started at the top with a software defined data center architecture.
The predominant architecture in the enterprise is software defined servers…a.k.a. server virtualization…and silos of vendor specific networking and storage.
In hyperscale data centers, server virtualization is joined with storage and network virtualization which are apps running on industry standard servers.
The disruption that made hyperscale and profitable growth possible started at the top with a software defined data center architecture.
The predominant architecture in the enterprise is software defined servers…a.k.a. server virtualization…and silos of vendor specific networking and storage.
In hyperscale data centers, server virtualization is joined with storage and network virtualization which are apps running on industry standard servers.
One result of implementing a software defined data center architecture is that server connectivity is more important than ever.
Among the millions of servers in hyperscale data centers are app servers, software defined storage servers, NFV app servers and cloud OS servers.
All are connected by an Ethernet network that must be incredibly fast, smart and cost-effective.
Wondering when this is all going to happen? Well, we expect the migration to software defined data centers and the underlying technologies to take ten years.
Our benchmark is the migration to software defined servers, an area where after ten years, 70% of new workloads are now virtualized.
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3055225
Gartner Says Worldwide Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Spending to Grow 32.8 Percent in 2015
Buyers Urged to Be Cautious When Choosing Providers as Competitive Landscape Shifts
The market for cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is in a state of upheaval, as many service providers are shifting their strategies after failing to gain enough market traction, according to Gartner, Inc.
Global spending on IaaS is expected to reach almost US$16.5 billion in 2015, an increase of 32.8 percent from 2014, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2019 forecast at 29.1 percent, according to Gartner's latest forecast.
http://www.enterprisetech.com/2015/01/13/spending-shifting-hyperscale-datacenters/
Gartner predicted this week that worldwide IT spending would grow to $3.8 trillion this year, a 2.5 percent increase over 2014. An earlier projection pegged the annual IT growth rate for this year at 3.9 percent. That forecast was revised downward as the dollar rises against the euro and other currencies. (The market watcher said plummeting oil prices would likely have had little impact on its quarterly projections.)
“The rising U.S. dollar is chiefly responsible for the change—in constant currency terms the downward revision is only 0.1 per cent,” explained John-David Lovelock, Gartner’s research vice president explained. “Stripping out the impact of exchange rate movements, the corresponding constant-currency growth figure is 3.7 percent, which compares with 3.8 percent in the previous quarter’s forecast.”
While currency fluctuations resulted in a 1.4 percent downward revision in Gartner’s quarterly IT spending forecast, the market analyst noted that enterprise software continues to grow at a 5.5 percent clip. A key shift is away from software licensing to software-as-a-service, an option that brings with it monthly rather than annual payments. Lovelock noted that the “SaaS first” model provides greater agility as the Internet of Things emerges.
Gartner forecasts that SaaS will account for more than half of annual software deals this year.
Telecom services represent the lion’s share of annual IT spending, totaling more than $1.62 trillion last year. That total is expected to increase by only 0.7 percent in 2015, Gartner forecast.
IT services represent the second-largest spending category, reaching $956 billion in 2014. Gartner is forecasting that global spending on IT services will increase 2.5 percent this year to $981 billion even as datacenter infrastructure spending remains essentially flat. The market analyst cited lower growth rates in some regions for enterprise software while economic uncertainty in the Russian and Brazilian markets squeezes short-term growth rates.
The Asia-Pacific region is the fastest growing market at 8 percent annual growth.
Overall, enterprise software spending shows the biggest annual increase, with Gartner predicting a 5.5 percent jump in spending this year to $335 billion. Gartner said it expects greater price erosion and vendor consolidation in 2015 as competition heats up between cloud and on-premises software providers.
Spending on datacenter systems is projected to reach $143 billion in 2015, a 1.8 percent increase from 2014, Gartner projected. Spending on datacenter infrastructure—servers, storage, networks—is projected to remain flat. But datacenter services and application support continues to soar as enterprises steadily shift from on-premise facilities to hyperscale datacenter providers.
For us to realize these forecasts, we need to cross the chasm where 25 gig is cool because Ashton Kutcher has it.
But to cross the chasm a community of a few hundred vendors needs to work out the technical kinks and go-to-market kinks.