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Next generation data centre networks A platform for innovation Chris Gascoigne cgascoig@cisco.com May 2015

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Mean Time Between Idea and Making Stuff Happen

What’s the DNA of your applications ? ? FUTURE UTURE < 2000 2003 2003 2006 2006 2008 2008 2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 6

Changing Application Models Bare metal Virtualisation Containers Server Server App App App App App App App App OS OS OS OS Hypervisor OS Monolithic Apps Scale out Microservices

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Shearing Layers Site: eternal • Structure: 30-300 years • Skin: 20 years • Services: 7-15 years • Space plan: 3 years • Stuff (furniture): constant • http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html#ShearingLayers, [Brand 1994]

"separate that which changes from that which doesn't” [Roberts & Johnson 1998]

Systems Layers DevOps DevOps Systems of Innovation Social Web 2.0 Big Data Collaboration Business Systems of Differentiation CRM … Process Management Student ERP Identity Systems of Record ITIL ITIL Records

Infrastructure Supports Applications Traditional Applications Modern Applications (Systems of Record, Systems of Differentiation) (Systems of Innovation) ? Enterprise Virtualisation / Bare Metal

Infrastructure Supports Applications Traditional Applications Modern Applications (Systems of Record, Systems of Differentiation) (Systems of Innovation) ? Enterprise Virtualisation / Bare Metal • Profile/catalogue driven • Programmable • Multi-tenanted • Tenant portal • Automated (everything)

Infrastructure Supports Applications Traditional Applications Modern Applications (Systems of Record, Systems of Differentiation) (Systems of Innovation) Enterprise Virtualisation / Bare Cloud Management Platform Metal (OpenStack / AzurePack / CloudStack / Cisco / …)

Infrastructure for Modern Applications Templates / App Containers WEB WEB APP APP DB DB F/W F/W ADC ADC ADC ADC Systems Orchestration Management Compute / Virtualisation Operating System Application Storage

Infrastructure for Modern Applications – real example Puppet Application - Hadoop Operating System - RHEL Compute/Virtualisation - KVM on DB DB (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, etc) UCS Heat Templates OpenStack APP APP ADC ADC WEB WEB Storage - CEPH ADC F/W ADC F/W

Infrastructure for Modern Applications – real example Application - Hadoop Chef Operating System - RHEL Compute/Virtualisation – Hyper-V Application Containers DB DB on UCS UCS-Director APP APP ADC ADC WEB WEB Storage - NetApp ADC F/W ADC F/W

Infrastructure Supports Applications Traditional Applications Modern Applications (Systems of Record, Systems of Differentiation) (Systems of Innovation) Enterprise Virtualisation / Bare Cloud Management Platform Metal (OpenStack / AzurePack / CloudStack / Cisco / …)

Summary • Application models are evolving • Some will take a long time to evolve (if they do at all) • Need to support traditional applications and provide agile environment for innovation projects • Build the right infrastructure so these can converge when needed

Questions?