METISfiles keynote at the opening of BT Data Center Nieuwegein June 21, 2012

1. Data Centers and the Cloud
Pim Bilderbeek
Principal Analyst
pim@themetisfiles.com
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2. Business Computing:
Past, Present and Future
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3. Transition
• Legacy
Present • Cloud
• Silo • Social
• Fixed • Mobile
Past Future
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4. Enterprise Vision
Connected Worker
Elastic Enterprise
Partner Ecosystem
• Adaptable to • Employer and • Networked
changes in employee community
economy and • Digital skills and • Mutually
strategy knowledge interdependent
• Flexible workforce • Flexible and virtual • Fluid partner roles
• Fluid partner • Mixing work and & responsibilities
ecosystem play • Performance driven
• Globally distributed • Location by network
business functions independent characteristics and
• Virtual teams • Bring their own IT structure
• Outsourced non- • Multiple • Distributed
core functions communication intelligence
• Multiple channels channels • Influence through
to customer combined behavior
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5. From Legacy To Cloud
on-demand,
virtual, automated
private infrastructure shared infrastructure
and operations hybrid and operations
cloud
private public
cloud cloud
customer control, hybrid supplier control,
ownership,
responsibility
archi-
tecture
ICT hybrid
hosting
ownership,
responsibility
legacy out-
IT sourcing
hybrid
opera-
private infrastructure tions private infrastructure
and operations shared operations
scheduled, physical,
manual
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6. Computing Deployment Models
control elasticity
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7. Data Center Trends
Data Center Physical Computing Virtual Computing
DCIM Convergence Automation
Modularization x86 XaaS
Less is More Big Data Portability
Industrialization Efficiency Orchestration
Automation and Orchestration
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8. Evolving Cloud Business Models
Consumer Customer Business
Cloud Cloud Cloud
No Privacy Trusted Provider Security/Compliance
No QoS QoS SLA
Public Public Public/Hybrid/Private
SaaS SaaS SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
Standard Hardware,
Custom Hardware Converged Infra
Converged Infra
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9. The Evolving Data Center Ecosystem
GLOBAL DATA CENTER GRID
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10. From Silos To Social
On-premise Hybrid Cloud
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4
Social
Communications &
Unified Collaboration
Communications Multiple devices with
Multiple devices with single interfaces
single interfaces integrating a mix of
Mixed integrating a mix of multimedia
Communications multimedia communications,
A mix of devices and communications apps collaboration, social
multimedia on a unified networking, and
communications infrastructure business apps on a
Separate applications across a cloud based
Communications mix of infrastructures infrastructure
Separate stacks for
voice and data
applications
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11. From Fixed To Mobile
At Work On Location At Home On The Move
remote access is the new normal
social is the new fabric
cloud is the new platform
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12. Business Computing:
Past, Present and Future
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13. Transition
• Legacy
Present • Cloud
• Silo • Social
• Fixed • Mobile
Past Future
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