Modern Platform Chris Swan (@cpswan) VP, CTO DXC Technology Global Delivery Organization 20 Sep 2017
Agenda ▪ Agile, DevOps, Design for Operations – different facets of the same essential part of the Digital Journey ▪ The four key attributes of Modern Platform ▪ The value of Modern Platform ▪ Summary
This ‘ DevOps ’ thing, and why I ’ m talking about Design for Operations
All Industries Evolve Design for Operations Design for Manufacture Design for Purpose
IT Is No Different Design for Operations Design for Manufacture Design for Purpose
Agility, Agility, Agility High-performing IT organizations report experiencing: Business Agility Agile Software Platform 200x 24x Agile Infrastructure faster recovery more frequent from failures deployments 3x 2,555x lower change shorter failure rate lead times Source: 2016 State of DevOps Report
Being Agile to Win John Boyd ’ s OODA Loop
Getting a more agile infrastructure: Modern Platform
The four qualities of Modern Platform 1. Partner Engineered System 2. Hyper Converged Infrastructure 3. Small Entry Level 4. Value Optimised Architecture
Partner Engineered System Reduces time to value, because Hitachi takes responsibility for: ▪ Build ▪ Integration of components ▪ Testing and validation The result is a turnkey system that’s data centre ready 45 days after placing an order
Hyper Converged Infrastructure A building block for the Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) ▪ VSAN for Software Defined Storage ▪ NSX for Software Defined Networking ▪ vCenter for a familiar admin environment and API ▪ vCloud Foundation (VCF) pulls everything together ‒ SDDC Manager for ongoing updates etc.
Small Entry Level Field sales told us that 100VMs was the sweet spot for opportunities that we were missing But price needed to stay in line with previous offerings using Hyper Converged Infrastructure
Value Optimised Architecture Focus was on total cost of ownership - $/VM Software defined means license cost dominated Single socket systems to get our desired entry level Half the sockets – half the license cost
The value of Modern Platform
The target we set ourselves a year ago $4,500.00 $4,000.00 $3,500.00 $3,000.00 $2,500.00 $2,000.00 $1,500.00 X $1,000.00 $500.00 $0.00 0 200 400 600 800
Modern Platform – Value Proposition By Leveraging Hitachi ’ s R&D: ▪ DXC reduces latency, and orients DXC investments to higher order/ differentiated services. ▪ Faster technology adoption & GTM cycles with a joint governance model Pre-integration can include: ▪ Business continuity services from STaaS ▪ AT&T network delivery ▪ BPS and Security wrapper Both Capex and Opex models available Can address both horizontal and vertical/industry use cases
Better, Faster, Cheaper Better through life maintenance experience Faster time to market for new hardware & Faster from order to install Lower cost per VM
A first step in design for operations Turnkey operation addresses day 1 VMware SDDC is familiar for day 2+ We can now push up the stack
Powered by Modern Platform: A foundation for other offerings Cloud Workplace Big Data & Analytics
The Modern Platform base Infrastructure Applications Data Runtime Middleware OS Virtualization Servers Modern Platform Storage Networking
Enterprise Hosting “ powered by Modern Platform ” Infrastructure as-a-Service Applications Data Runtime Middleware OS Virtualization Enterprise Hosting Servers Storage Networking
MSV “ powered by Modern Platform ” Platform as-a-Service Applications Data Runtime Middleware OS Private Cloud Virtualization Servers Storage Networking
Workplace VDI “powered by Modern Platform” Software as-a-Service Applications Data Runtime Middleware Workplace VDI OS Virtualization Servers Storage Networking
Modern Platform Offering Engagement Process Partner & VMWare Opportunity DXC Collects DXC Uses ROM Regional Sales Identified Requirements Configurator BOM Rep Quotes DXC Attach Partner Build DXC Raises P.O.s PRB Approval Factory MP SOWs DXC Offering Partner Deliver, Handover to DXC Partner Handover Delivery Build VMs Connect & Delivery ORR to DXC and Remaining Configure Operations Environment
We’re nearing the end…
Summary Fully integrated Compute, Storage, Networking, Software and through life-support, scaling non-disruptively from entry level suitability to rack scale all consumed via industry standard APIs Software Defined, Hyper-Converged, All Flash Infrastructure. Partner Engineered. Ingredients are fully integrated, designed, engineered, delivered and supported as one. Simplified Deployment and Through-Life Operations. Think BIG, Start small. Scale as you need.
The Journey doesn ’ t end here … ▪ Design thinking can drive us towards better optimised systems ▪ Lots has changed in IT over the last 20 years ‒ So why do servers still look the same? ▪ Multiple benefits are within our grasp: ‒ Cheaper bill of materials == less acquisition cost ‒ Fewer things to fail == greater reliability == less operational cost ‒ Lower power draw == greater density == less operational cost
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