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DC: Le Converged Infrastructure per Software Defined e Cloud

Luigi MARCOCCHIA

SOFTWAY

Today’s Businesses Require Greater Agility

Focus on increasing speed of business

Customers expect on-demand service consumption

Inconsistent infrastructure delivery to application developers

Flexibility to locate resources based on project needsand cost

Solutions that accommodate current and next-generation application architecture

What If You Could…

Adopt automation at a pace comfortable to your business?

Deliver consistent end-to-end infrastructure instances?

Consume applications and business serviceson demand?

Accelerate application development and deployment?

Transparently consume and manage the lifecycle of private and hybrid cloud environments?

What We Need

Comprehensive automation across all organizational layers

End-to-end hardware and software solution

Self-service user experience

Services with built-in policies

Hybrid-ready private cloud

Choice, consistency, control, and compliance

Accelerated application development and deployment

Out-of-the-box templates and built-in tools

Software Defined Architecture

Virtual Network ServicesRouter, edge and zone firewall, fabric

Modern Portal and Service Catalog Out-of-the-box templates for application stacks

Embedded custom application stack design

Integrated Infrastructure Management

Cisco UCS® based and multivendor

Integrated infrastructure based on Cisco UCS

Multivendor computing, network, storage, and virtualization

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Market Trends require More Convergence

Integrated infrastructure

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Validated designs

Any workload

Mission-critical apps

Flexibility

Virtualized and bare metal

Scale in any dimension

Building blocks

How Can We Use Converged Systems?

Datacenter

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• Unified architecture for compute, network, and storage

• Reduced delivery time: 6 weeks to 10 days

• Simplified customer provisioning: hours to minutes

The FlexPod Reality

6,300+ FlexPod® Customers

100+ Validated Architectures

FlexPod Advantage

Performance

Agility

Economics

• Up to 20X AFF storage performance

• 208% faster SQL response times

• 100+ world record benchmarks

• 83% faster provisioning with ACI + UCS

• 20-30% reduction in application testing time

• 70% of engineering time reclaimed

• 76% ROI in just 17 months*

• Free storage controller upgrade

• Flash performance at the price of disk

* Source: Forrester TEI

FlexPod Solution PortfolioCisco UCS | Nexus | NetApp FAS/E/EF |

Data Center Edge/IoT

Scale-Out Apps

FlexPod

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Remote Datacenter

Virtualized Infrastructure

Enterprise Apps

Branch and Remote Sites

FlexPod

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Consistent Architectural-Expanding Usage Models

Backup

Enterprise Apps Run Better on FlexPod Open platform with broad support matrix for business applications

Validated workloads

Hyper-V Oracle VM VMware vSphere

Secure Separation Secure Multi-Tenancy Security options

OSRed Hat KVM Citrix Xen

MetroCluster, SnapMirror, AltaVault, Data Fabric, Private Storage, Cloud ONTAP

UCS Director APIC/ACI RHEL OSP Orchestration

Business Continuity

FlexPod & Cisco ACI

• Simplified automation by an application-driven policy model

• Secure multi-tenancy and compliance

• Real-time visibility across physical and virtual environments

• Accelerate application deployment

• Application End Point Policy throughout ACI data center with physical and virtual FlexPod resource assignment

• Validated Design Guides

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APIC

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ACI Fabric / Nexus

9000 Spine / Leaf

FlexPod with All Flash FAS

All Flash FAS offers:

• Flash-optimized Data ONTAP®

• Integrated storage efficiencies (dedupe, compression)

• Nondisruptive operations, scale out and seamless data mobility

• Integrated application-aware data protection

• Secure multi-tenancy, Quality of Service

• Unified data management from flash to capacity to Cloud ONTAP® to Edge

FlexPod with All Flash FAS enables our customers to accelerate data center transformation and business evolution

Top All-Flash workloads:

• Business processing applications

• Accelerating critical databases

• Decision support / data analytics

• Faster insight and better decisions

• VDI projects

• Server Virtualization

• Other (“home-grown” apps)

Role of Qualified System Integrator

• Customer’s Trust Advisor for select the best solution (private, hybrid, public cloud) depending on business needs

• Select the best hardware and software architectures in the market

• Help customer to Perform Transition from Legacy to Cloud

• Build the right on-premise cloud infrastructure and software defined architecture

• Connect private, hybrid and public services to implement a unified customer services platform

Qualified System Integrator understand customer business needs, find the best solutions and build the right Cloud

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l.marcocchia@softway-it.com