Kevin Walker

An Introduction to Software

Defined Data Centres

Agenda

• Data Centre History• Monolithic Infrastructures - Data Centre 1.0• Consolidated Infrastructures - Data Centre 2.0• Software Defined Infrastructures - Data Centre 3.0• Software Defined Infrastructure Overview• Example Architecture – Bahrain AMP• Software Defined Backup• The Future• Q&A

Data Centre History

• 1990 - Data Centres first appeared in the 1990’s driven by the dot com bubble

• 1999 - Rackspace Hosting opened their first Data Centre to businesses

• 2006 - Amazon launched AWS – The birth of HyperScale/Software Defined Data Centres

• 2011 - BT was one of the first Service Providers to launch a VMware VDC solution to Enterprise Customers

• 2014 – VMware launches vCloud Air Public/Hybrid Cloud

Monolithic Infrastructures - Data Centre 1.0

Application

Compute

Network

Storage

Application

Compute

Network

Storage

Application

Compute

Network

Storage

Advantages• Cheaper to deploy, without

VMware/SAN costs• True customer isolation

Disadvantages• Inefficient use of Power and

Cooling• Silo’d, monolithic approach to

deploying enterprise applications/customers

Consolidated Infrastructures - Data Centre 2.0

Applications

Hypervisor

Compute

Network

Storage

Management

Management

Management

Management

Management

Advantages• Converged Infrastructure, higher

efficiency and easier to manage• Self healing platform• Better utilisation of resources

Disadvantages• Still many management consoles• Additional layers add additional

complexity/cost

Software Defined Infrastructures - Data Centre 3.0

Controllers

Application

Service Catalogue

Service Orchestration

Network

Compute

Storage

• Application defined Infrastructure

• Service Orchestration• The Control and Data Plane • The maturity of SDN and

other SDx • The Data Centre 2.0 -> 3.0

Evolution

Software Defined Infrastructure

Chargeback

Service Catalogue

Service Orchestration

Storage Infrastructure Backup Infrastructure

Network InfrastructureUnified Computing Infrastructure

Enterprise User or Cloud Customer

Example Architecture

The Future

• By 2020 Forrester predicts the global Cloud Service Provider market to be worth in excess of $241 Billion

• All enterprises will be using Cloud Infrastructure in some shape or form if not already

• All services will be automated, with Control/Data Plane Architectures being the norm

• Larger Vendors will have to adapt if they wish to compete with the smaller, agile start-ups

Q & A

Thank You