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Unisys Seminar

Innovation for Mission Critical Environments

Fabric Computing – A Future Ready Solution

Vic Herring ClearPath and Forward APAC Product Manager

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The Data Centre of the Future Will Grow Increasingly Diverse

Unified Service Management

Service Brokering

Leveraging new disruptive cloud technologies provides an opportunity to further

optimise cost, speed/ agility, and service quality to increase enterprise value.

Applications

Infrastructure

Management

Maximising benefits will involve spreading workloads across a

“Virtual Data Center” footprint, judiciously utilising dedicated

assets, private cloud, and public cloud capabilities.

Placing application workloads on the optimal infrastructure to maximise benefits, yet manage risks due to security, compliance, or availability.

Building out the mission critical private and public cloud infrastructure to broker the right mix of “controlled” infrastructure options in the VDC.

Ensuring that all VDC assets retain the security, manageability, serviceability, reliability, and recoverability attributes required by the enterprise.

Intelligent Application Alignment

Application Inventory

Migration Strategy

Cloud Dedicated


• Cloud Computing transforms the economics of IT

enabling cost reduction and increased agility

• Mobile Computing and new end-points

(Wearables, Internet of Things) expand the edge

of the enterprise

• Social Computing enables connection to a new

generation and improves collaboration

• Big Data enables opportunities for real-time

decision making and competitive advantage

• Cybersecurity models must adapt to protect

sensitive data wherever it resides

Creating New Forms of Business Value …

The Business Impact of the Disruptive Trends Enterprise CIOs are facing the most disruptive period in the history of Information Technology

Technology Shifts…

Infrastructural shift to Cloud Computing

Shift to mobility as the “new desktop”

Collaborative shift to social computing

Informational shift to unstructured data and real

time analytics

The Cyber security perimeter is no longer defendable

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Evolution of the Cloud

Private

Cloud

Public

Cloud

Cloud Ecosystem

(Niche Providers, PaaS, Industry PaaS)

Hybrid

Computing

(Provisioning,

ITSM, Identity)

Today’s Environment Future Environment

Software Defined Data Centers Simplifying the “Engine Room” of IT to make Hybrid Computing and Cloud Delivery Simple

(Internal, Hosted)

(SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)

Software defined data centers and their accompanying software stacks represent

the next generation of hybrid cloud computing

All x86 data center is borderless, partitioned, virtual, automated, and secure


The Secure Software Defined Datacenter

• A selection of contemporary software stacks

to support COTS and custom application

stacks … freedom of choice

• State of the Art server infrastructure

allowing the highest performance,

supporting new in memory database

models and the highest bandwidth, lowest

latency interconnects … limitless elasticity

Realizing the x86 Data Center

Migrate to Linux


Obsolete

Interconnect Media

Svc

Svc

Svc

Svc

Obsolete Services

Work

load

Work

load

Work

load Work

load

Work

load

“Retired Workloads”

Storage Storage

SAN Network

time • Fabric is Organic – it evolves, it expands, it shrinks and it can move. • Platforms are added and retired as needed independent of workloads • Application deployment/migration independent of platform sale • All resources are deployed within the fabric

Intel Xeon Platform Older Bridge

Intel Xeon Platform Old Bridge

“Phase 2 Support

Termination”

Partition Management

Extreme Automation

Virtual Management

USAS OS2200 MCP SAP COM ABSuite

High Speed and Secure Interconnect (Memory, Eth & IB) “Orderable”

Intel Xeon Platform Next Bridge

Intel Xeon Platform Future Bridge

Work

load

Work

load

Work

load Work

load

Work

load

“New Workloads”

Svc

Svc

Svc

Svc

“Emerging Services”

ePortal SMA .Net MQ EOM Hadoop

Intel Xeon Platform Sandy Bridge

Intel Xeon Platform Ivy Bridge

New

Interconnect Media

Introducing the Fabric Lifestyle and lifecycle

Fabric Evolution The heart of the organic datacenter never stops beating


The Modern Mission Critical Data Centre


Fabric Architecture

• Just what is the fabric? The Fabric consists of multiple nodes with granular partitioning enabled by s-Par® , woven together with a high speed secure interconnect.

• Each partition or partition complex hosts an operating system instance supporting customer applications.

• The Fabric Interconnect provides communication pathways between the partitions within and between nodes.

• Management and security are inherent to the fabric infrastructure.

• Stealth technology provides application Communities Of Interest (COIs).

Up to 6 “small” partitions per

platform

s-Par® / Interconnect

Enterprise Windows and Linux

W/L

Unisys Intel Platform

W/L

s s

High Speed and Secure Interconnect


W/L


Mixed Partition

Sizes


W/L


W/L

Storage

SAN Network

Storage

W/L = Windows or Linux

System Management

Management LAN



Customer selectable

configurations


W/L


W/L

S = Stealth DiM (optional)

s s s

Stealth Licensing and

Logging

s s


Interconnect

Various VMs


VMware


Transitioning Unisys Mainframe to the Fabric Merging Mainframe Technologies to Forward!

OS & DB Specialty Partitions

s-Par (Xeon Partitioning)

ClearPath Entry Performance/Capacity

IO Specialty Partitions

Xeon Partitioning



Operating System and Database

Operating System and Database

ClearPath High Performance/Capacity

2012

Introduced a Xeon multi-node distributed OS architecture with

a high speed point to point interconnect

2014 and beyond

Unisys fabric infrastructure - a multi-node Xeon switched high performance

architecture that is partition-able to support Windows & Linux applications &

databases 1 Node

High Speed and Secure Interconnect (switched)

s-Par (Xeon partitioning)

ClearPath OS Complex

OS/DB

Unisys Intel Complex

Customer selectable

configurations

s-Par (Xeon partitioning)

W/L


W/L


X-Large


Mixed Partition

Sizes


Small


Large


Enterprise Windows and Linux Node

1 of ‘x’ Nodes 1 of 4 Nodes

2009

Introduced a single node distributed OS architecture

using s-Par® Xeon Platform Partitioning technology

ClearPath Fabric


Unisys Mission-Critical Platforms Without Compromise!

Unisys employs sound security practices and is currently implementing the best practice security enhancements for the s-Par environment and its implemented operating systems…

Symantec, Sept. 2011

Intel x86 Platform

The s-Par ® platform allows the customer to deploy Forward!™ by Unisys confident that it will provide industry leading levels of security.

Intel Security, Sept 2014

This chart was developed by Unisys and represents Unisys’ interpretation of publicly available NIST data.

Operating

System

Number of

Vulnerabilities

Date of Last

Vulnerability

Compromised

User Data

Unisys ClearPath

OS2200

0 - No

Unisys ClearPath

MCP

1 12/31/2002 No

IBM System i

(iSeries)

22 01/02/2014 Yes

IBM System z

(zSeries)

23 01/02/2014 Yes

OpenVMS 35 12/13/2012 Yes

HP-UX 329 08/26/2014 Yes

AIX 357 09/04/2014 Yes

Unix 680 09/22/2014 Yes

Solaris 903 08/26/2014 Yes

Windows 3,516 09/29/2014 Yes

Linux 4,403 09/28/2014 Yes

Data taken Oct 2, 2014


Unisys’s Software-Based Fabric Computing Infrastructure

Predictable system performance but inefficient

use of hardware

Provides hardware efficiencies and predictive performance

through secure isolation

Maximized hardware utilization but system

performance not guaranteed

Virtualized Server + Increase workload density =

fewer servers

+ Dynamic capacity allocation with shared resources

+ Good for many “non-critical” workloads

- Performance impacted by workload of other virtual machines.

- Typically oversubscribed

OS

App

OS

App

OS

App

Server

Shared Resource Pool

CPU | Mem | Storage

OS

App

Virtualization

Physical Server + Predictable performance

+ Dedicated resources to one application

+ Application isolation

- Typically underutilized

- Server sprawl

- Highest cost for HW/SW maintenance, power and cooling

OS

App

Server

Dedicated Resources

CPU Mem

Storage

Secure Partitioning + Increase workload density with

predictable performance

+ Dedicated resources

+ Processor

+ Memory

+ I/O and storage

+ Partition isolation for security

+ Right sized for workloads

OS

App

Server

CPU Mem

Storage

OS

App

CPU Mem

Storage

OS

App

CPU Mem

Storage

Assigned Resources

s-P

ar

s-P

ar


Predictable Performance (Noisy Neighbour)

0

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

IO p

er

secon

d (

IOP

S)

Elapsed Time

16% higher than VM

43% higher than VM

122% higher than VM

The Unisys Forward! Multi-Virtual Partition (VP) test Unisys Forward! Virtual Partition (VP) vs. Industry Standard Hypervisor (VM)

Noisy Neighbor Testing, 8KB OLTP database workload, heavy disk and CPU

VP #1

VP #2

VP #3

VP #4

VM #1

VM #2

VM #3

VM #4

113% higher than VM Predictable Performance

(Noisy Neighbour)


What Problem Does Forward! Solve? Applications that Don’t Play Well with Others

Applications on Dedicated

Server Technology

• Database Applications

• High I/O Solutions

• In-memory Databases (i.e. SAP HANA)

• High Performance Systems

• Secure and Isolated Applications

• UNIX Applications


What Problem Does Forward! Solve? Value Proposition

Reduce the complexity of infrastructure

• Improve infrastructure utilization as propriety Unix apps

can be moved Linux. E.G SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle

Financial and home grown Apps.

• Reducing costs of managing firewalls

• Reduce network traffic, improved security, drastically

reduce latency and improve performance

• Limit firewalls to the edges

• Improve datacentre network 4 times faster as any

network operating today

• Each operating instance does not need cable to a switch

• Reduce the number of separate networks and subnets



Improve Operating Budget and Cash flow, while improving services

• Waterfall out equipment seamlessly as CAPEX is available

• Reduction in switching costs for data and communication

Infrastructure

• Reduced costs through migration of Propriety Unix apps to Linux.

Such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financial and home grown

Apps.

• In a future Forward! release - purchase storage incrementally with

servers and NEVER pay a big CAPEX to achieve this.

• Use common infrastructure for all work by simply deploying in a

manner the business requires.



Improve Deployment Strategy & Agility

• Move Applications to the cloud permanently/temporarily

• Consolidate departments IT use & know exactly what

resources are allocated restricting views to their own services

• Set secure test/development that won’t impact production and

tear it down no infrastructure cost.

• Run existing virtualized environment and still take advantage of

the Fabric Life Style

• In addition provide flexible container sizes to safely allow

applications to expand and contract with workload.



Introduce New Services

• Big Data extremely suited

• GreenPlum

• Hadoop Package

• SAP Hana

• Discrete x86 Appliances can share the infrastructure, avoid

expense of Proprietary Unix


Forward! By Unisys? Fast, Secure and Predictable

Integrated System Software Solution Coming Soon

A high speed fabric computing platform designed for high I/O Applications requiring predictability, security, scalability and isolation.

A software solution with a reference architecture for high I/O Applications requiring predictability, security, scalability and Isolation.


Forward! Based Mission-Critical Services

Advisory Services

Technology Consulting

Services

Application

Modernization Services

Operational Services

Technology Support Services

Application Migration Services

An integrated and holistic set service offerings

A Modular Approach

Choose the service elements

you need when you need them


SERVICE MANAGEMENT

MISSION-CRITICAL FABRIC

“ZERO TRUST” SECURITY MODEL

CLOUD MANAGEMENT

Our technology investments in ClearPath, Forward!, Choreographer, EDGE and Stealth provide a core management stack which

is the “brain center” of the new hybrid datacenter… all delivered via software…

MISSION-CRITICAL COMPUTING

Unisys Investments in Modern Mission Critical Computing via the "All x86” Software-Defined Data Center

Mission Critical

computing for

Linux & Windows

Flexible cloud

management

and brokering

Data-driven, service

management

Mission critical

security

Applied individually, or in combination, our technology products provide the necessary…

Agility + Flexibility + Manageability + Security…

To jump-start the journey to a modernized, cost-effective, x86 software-defined data center…

Supporting today’s new scope of mission critical computing

Superior mission

critical computing

capabilities

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