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Welcome to ATF#8

Autumn 2015

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Welcome to ATF #8!

Welcome to the Autumn Arista Tech Forum• Second of 12 events this season

• Covering Stockholm to Cape Town and Dublin to Moscow

What’s it about?• Technology show case – by techies, for techies

• Opportunity to connect with other Arista users and the team

Interactivity welcomed!

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Introduction

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Today’s Agenda

10:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Day

10:15 Product Update & Technology Preview

10:45 Transitioning to an Automated, Software Driven Cloud Network

11:15 Break

11:45 Scaling the the Software Driven Cloud Network

12:15 Streamlining and Automating Virtual Network Control

12:45 Lunch

13:45 Solutions for Scaling the Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure

14:30 Delivering Cloud Scale Workflow Automation, Control and Visibility with Arista

15:15 Wrap Up

15:30 Finish

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Do-It-YourselfCustom development for

integration

Software development resources & approach

DevOpsLeveraging existing tools

(Puppet, Chef etc)

Integration & customization via scripts

TurnkeyLimited solutions today, focus on

legacy models

Customers need turnkey solution for cloud-automation!

Approaches to Network Automation

Cloud TitanHigh Tech

Enterprise / SPTraditional

Enterprise / SP

10,000network elements per engineer

1,000network elements per engineer

100network elements per engineer

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Much more than DevOps

Traditional Enterprise Private Cloud Web Scale

Hardware choices Enterprise SKUsHighly Coupled

Generic off the shelfDecoupled

Limited customAll Open Standards

Procurement model Traditional Supplier Managed Direct/ Contract

Redundancy model Hardware based Software based Software based (global)

Required HW availability

99.999% + 99.9% - 99.999% 99% - 99.9%

Automation Limited to blocksVendor specific

Compute, Storage and Network integration

Complete integration with DC as a whole

Refresh cycle 5-7 years in bulk Deployment led Continuous

Scale per capita resource

10-100 devices 100-1000 devices 1000s - 10000s devices

Adapted from Microsoft

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Technology agility

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ContinuousDevelopment

IntroduceNew

RetireOld

V1 V1 V2 V2 V3 V3 V4

An evergreen infrastructure

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Source: facebook.com

A quiet life…

§ Vanilla IP networks§ Leaf-Spine topologies§ Box level redundancy§ Repeatable elastic units§ Robust APIs§ Provider like thinking

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That scales beyond your dreams!

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We know what’s required

§ Decouple hardware stacks

§ Simplify network designs

§ Abstract HW and topology from software

§ Automated provisioning, orchestration

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K.I.S.S =

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So why aren’t we all doing this already?

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$84,000.00

$168,000.00

$252,000.00

$336,000.00

$420,000.00

$504,000.00

$588,000.00

$672,000.00

15 30 45 60 75 90 105 120

Costofanoutage

Minutes

A few distractions ….

§ 59% of F500s experience ≥1.6hrs downtime per week • (Dunn & Bradstreet)

§ Average outage lasts 200 minutes • (IT Process Institute)

§ Downtime average 87hours/year • (Gartner)

§ Downtime costs $5600/minute • (Ponemon Institute)

§ 49% of outages are caused by human error• (IEEE)

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80% of IT activity, time and dollars are spent keeping the lights on

(Forbes)

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Introducing CloudVision

§ Abstraction of hardware and topology from orchestration• Ability to flex and adapt northbound and southbound

§ Turnkey core services• Template driven provisioning/replacement

• Ongoing configuration management and compliance

• Network-wide upgrades and rollbacks

• Inventory management

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There is a lot at stake

§ Faster service delivery

§ Lower costs of operation and change

§ Less disruptive innovation cycles

§ Reduced risk to business

§ More rewarding environment for technology teams

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Onward!

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