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Cisco – NetApp - Softway
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
SIMPLICITY
SPEED
SCALE
Minimize risk
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
Transformation
Application
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New Service
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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
ExpressUCS Mini
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
APIC
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
