Converged Infrastructure and Integrated Systems Futures
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CIandIS
The Future of Converged Infrastructure and Integrated Systems
The Future of Converged Infrastructure and
Integrated Systems
Top Line Research Findings
Pim Bilderbeek
Martin Hingley
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The Future of Converged Infrastructure and Integrated Systems
Agenda
• Market Developments
• System Types
• EMEA Vendors
• Current Positioning
• Expert Interview Analysis
• EMEA CI and IS Forecast
• Futures
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Market Developments
• Managing servers, storage and networking is difficult
• Many are mainly managing the estate rather than addressing new business
applications
• Technical skills are difficult and expensive to recruit and retain
• System vendors are building out their portfolios through acquisition and
proposing new, more integrated solutions
• User benefits include:
– ‘one throat to choke’, faster system set up and application deployment
time, reduced staffing costs
• Potential vendor benefits include:
– Better life cycle management, bigger deals, higher value relationship, a
tie-in with leading ISV applications
• An acceleration in product and strategy announcements from all suppliers
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System Types – The 5 layer Model
Degree of integration
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Server, Storage Array, Networking
1. Converged Infrastructure
2. Managed Platform
3. Integrated
System
4. Workload-
Optimised
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Stacks with increasing
degrees of integration and
workload specificity
including:
1. Converged Infrastructure
– chosen elements and
infrastructure software for
data center building
2.Managed Platforms –
adding ‘secret sauce’ system
management to orchestrate
and increase agility
3.Integrated Systems –
single SKUs with a choice of
workloads
4.Workload-Optimised
Systems – tuned for a
specific application atop the
‘integrated system’ stack
5.Software Appliances –a
specific software suite is
fitted into an appliance,
often with a restricted
infrastructure
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Typical Vendor Offerings in EMEA
Degree of integration
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Server, Storage Array, Networking
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2. Managed Platform
3. Integrated
System
4. Workload-
Optimised
System
5.
So
ftw
are
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IBM PureSystems
Oracle Exa…
VCE vBlock
SAP HANA
NetApp FlexPod
Cisco UCS
Hitachi UCP
Fujitsu DI BlocksHuawei FusionCube
Dell Active System
HP CI
Teradata
SAS
Greenplum
Some example offerings and
approaches:
1.Converged Infrastructure –
HP CI and Cisco UCS are
reference architectures
2.Managed Platforms –
‘secret sauce’ system
management includes Dell
ASM and IBM FSM
3.Integrated Systems – VCE
vBlock and Fujitsu BI Block
have set prices
4.Workload-Optimised
Systems – Oracle Exadata,
IBM PureData include the
application
5.Software Appliances – SAP
HANA and Greenplum are
fitted to certified platforms
Please note – most players
are active in a number of
layers
Nutanix VCP
SimpliVity Omnicube
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Current Positioning
CIandIS Score
HP
IBM
Cisco
Fujitsu
Dell
TeradataHuawei Oracle
NetApp
Unisys
Hitachi
Bull
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EMC/
VMware
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HP
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Dell
TeradataHuawei Oracle
NetApp
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EMC/
VMware
1.HP is a strong player,
addressing mainly lower
layers and includes Itanium
2.IBM is has a focus on
higher levels and includes
Power
3.EMC/VMware has strength
through partnering with
Cisco for vBlock; EMC is
leader in enterprise storage
and VMware in virtualisation
4.Cisco has a fabric design
with UCS, partners with EMC
and VMware for vBlock and
NetApp and VMware for
FlexPod
Others
Dell is well positioned to
move towards the top right,
has strong data centre
revenues and a new system
in 2013
Huawei is investing in data
centre growth - worth
watching
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Expert Interview Analysis - How Users Rate the
Advantages of Integrated SystemsCustomers make many
different choices - one size
doesn’t fit all
Their biggest challenge is
making their businesses
more agile
They see their data centre
strategies as adaptive - not
transformational
Existing supplier
relationships are most
important for choosing
solutions
Lower total cost of
ownership is the main
advantage
Few have experienced any
downside
Lack of innovation and
architecture are reasons for
some not to adopt
Users advise vendors - test
the system well before you
sell them to us!
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EMEA CI and IS Forecast – Revenue ($US
Billion) and Revenue Growth – 2012-2018Set to more than double in
size to $5.5 Billion in 2018 –
a 13% CAGR
CI is currently the largest
subsegment, but will be
surpassed in size by
Managed Platforms in 2018
WE currently accounts for
75% of spending, but will fall
to 54% as customers in MEA
fix their skills shortages
Finance and Manufacturing
are the largest vertical
markets, Education and
Retail/Wholesale will have
the strongest growth
Enterprise is currently the
largest buyer but SPs will
increase their share to 38%
by 2018 – Hosting is the
largest Service Provider sub-
sector, ISV the fastest
growing
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Futures
• Vendors will continue to built out and up, choosing chassis and blade systems
with increasingly sophisticated autonomic management
• Microservers will eventually be added to system types
• Unix and mainframe ranges may be adjusted to join integrated system
portfolios
• Users will be slow to adopt if they have heavily siloed IT administration
• Integrated systems approach covering whole data centres in containers will
add to the business
• Leading ISVs will choose between single hardware appliances (HANA) and
taking part in each vendors’ architecture
• Integrated systems favour scale-up, converged infrastructure – scale out
applications
• Integrated system approaches will be extended beyond the data centre to
cover branch and small office computing
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Questions?
Contact:
Martin Hingley, ITCandor
+441235202125
Pim Bilderbeek, METISfiles
+31653902852