Hyperconverged Systems for Digital Transformation Chris Gugger Director – Infrastructure Solutions Marketing
Agenda Introductions Hyperconverged Market – An Industry Analyst Perspective Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer Considerations New UCP Family Q & A
Session Panel CHRIS GUGGER STANLEY STEVENS Director, Infrastructure Senior Analyst, Data Solutions Marketing Center Practice Hitachi Vantara Technology Business Review, Inc. MATT BOUGES Enterprise IT Architect Conagra Brands
Hyperconverged Market - An Industry Analyst Perspective Stanley Stevens - TBRI
TBR Short Facts Company Market Business Structure § Established: 1996 § Financial results ground analysis § Research practices: data center, of industry trends, vendor telecom, devices, IoT, cloud, § Employees: ~100 performance, profit pools and best software, services, digital § Analysts track ~250 practices marketing and digital companies contributing over transformation 360 ° market view § $3 trillion in technology § Tailored services revenue per year Vendor analysis - Strategy and growth services § Client reference > 16 Fortune Customer analysis - - 500 Performance and Market analysis - - measurement services § Decision makers: 1,500 § QuantCenter Information platform Voice-of-the-customer and (360 ° landscape view) § Influencers: 1,500 - opportunity services § End user surveys: § Data models GTM and commercial >15,000/year - services 5
Data Monetization Drives Transformation Shifts Security Isolation-driven attack points security CPU Storage Digital IoT Encryption Policies Network Provisioning Usage/billing Technologies enabling I/O transformation: AI § Hyperconverged § Centralized management and orchestration Legacy IT transformation hinges on: Digital transformation hinges on: § Scalability to accommodate future workloads § Physical infrastructure location is irrelevant § Security across workloads, hardware and software § Application and data protection supersedes § Administrative simplicity perimeter security methods engineered for an on-premises world
Infrastructure Must Evolve! REASONS FOR INVESTING IN Top concerns with traditional HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS infrastructure: Current storage architecture is outdated or underperforming Rigid architectures = static scaling Cost versus traditional hardware infrastructure Hardware infrastructure was due for an upgrade Complex & labor Reduce operating processes intensive = consumes resources Improve efficiency of internal processes TCO versus traditional infrastructure Rising cost = Effective management of operations/processes limited workload innovation 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Percent of Respondents (n = 200) SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, June 2016 7
Critical Apps Are Migrating to Hyperconverged WORKLOADS PROMPTING THE PURCHASE OF HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS Business intelligence and/or analytics (e.g., data mining, predictive) Development and operations Data back up and recovery Database Business processing (ERP) Data warehousing Cloud hosting Customer resource management (CRM) Development and/or testing Productivity and/or collaboration 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Percent of respondents (n = 200) SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, DECEMBER 2016
Separating FUD From Reality KEY ATTRIBUTES VALIDATED DURING ON-SITE EVALUATION Application performance Capacity Compatibility with existing infrastructure Ease of installation Time to deployment 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Percent of respondents (n = 179) SOURCE: TBR HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS CUSTOMER RESEARCH, June 2016
Not All Vendors Are Created Equal
Hyperconverged Decision – Key Customer Considerations Matt Bouges, Conagra
Conagra Brands Company Profile § Headquarters in Chicago, IL § 40 locations, including offices in Chicago, IL, and Omaha, NE § More than 13,000 employees § Over $8 billion in annual revenue § 50+ brands
VDI Infrastructure Problem § Aging infrastructure § Converged architecture using Cisco UCS, NetApp and HDS – 1,500 desktops § Expensive and complex § Difficult to grow § New requirements due to IT and business outsourcing – mission critical
Converged or Hypercovnerged? § Initially only looked at converged § Did not believe HCI was ready for mission-critical workloads § Concerned about new skill sets for a new architecture
Why HCI, What Changed? § Rapid HCI maturity – all flash, VSAN 6, etc. § Moving to a solo data center with 1,000 sq. feet – size matters! § Developed comfort with the technology through POCs § Great fit for VDI workloads
HCI Solutions Considered § Nutanix – not already in our DC § Dell/EMC VxRail – complex and constraining § Cisco Hyperflex – maturity level and size § Hitachi UCP HC – the right fit!
The Solution § Hitachi UCP HC 240F – 2 per data center (4 nodes ea.) § 512 GB RAM, 28 cores per node, 30 TB all flash per site § VMware Horizon Enterprise 7, cloud pod architecture § HDI and HCP for UEM profiles § 12u total for 1500-2000 desktops
New UCP Family Chris Gugger, Hitachi Vantara
Introducing the Next Generation Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Flexible Simple Agile Hitachi Unified Hitachi Unified Hitachi Unified Compute Compute Compute Platform CI Platform HC Platform RS Automated: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor 2.0
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform HC (UCP HC) Server Workloads EUC/VDI § All virtualized workloads § Up to 800 virtual desktops running on VMware, including § Handle peak performance mission-critical and tier-1 apps requirements (boot, login, § Application uptime ensured read/write storms) through HA, DRS, vSAN § Quick and easy deployment and § Easily add up to 64 nodes for configuration increased capacity § On-prem or Cloud-hosted Virtual Private Cloud Regional Offices § Service Provider VPC building § Consistent footprint and block for MSP and hosting deployment operations § Consistently and easily § IT-in-a-box deployed on-prem and § Simplified user experience ideal off-prem (Colo) for non-VMware experts § Quick and easy scale-out § Centralized management for appliances to increase capacity remote deployment and configuration
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