1. PL 7.2 The Times They are A-Changin’
Chris Crosby, CEO, Compass Datacenters

2. The Times They are A-Changin’
This presentation discusses the factors and issues that are driving the evolving role of the CIO and the structure of data center networks

3. 3 Key Things You Will Have Learned During this Session
The new choices available to IT
The four factors of platform decision making
The impact of latency and bandwidth on the data center network

4. “We’re Putting Everything Into the Cloud”
What does this really mean?
Everything?
Are you going to use the public cloud for mission critical applications?
Can your network architecture support the plan?
New opportunities require different questions and analytics

5. Enhances the ability to “right fit” A new “product stack”
A New Toolbox
Enhances the ability to “right fit”
A new “product stack”
AaaS
Shared cloud
Dedicated/Bare metal
Colocation
Dedicated facilities

6. Utilization Myth: Average Utilizations of the Stack

7. Platform decisions based on their interrelationships
The Four Factors
The factors:
Regulation and risk
Scale
Control
Expertise
Platform decisions based on their interrelationships
Continually evolving
IT is the strategic decision maker

8. Network limitations becoming more and more common
Is the Network Able?
IDC: “50% of existing networks will be bandwidth constrained as result of the rapid increase in data volume for IoT”
Ex: Docker will require more capacity than many networks have available
Support for 4 to 6X applications than a hypervisor running on similar system
Network limitations becoming more and more common

9. Higher level of customer expectation than ever before
Latency
Higher level of customer expectation than ever before
Milliseconds make all the difference
Cloud meets IoT, rich packet applications
Increases the importance of data center location
One data center can’t do it all

10. Solving the Latency Problem
For now it’s geographical
Moving data as close to the end user as possible
Edge data centers
Emerging
Micro datacenters
Cisco FOG architecture
Any device can be a data collection point
Must have computing, storage and network connectivity

11. Bandwidth
That’s a lot of things

12. Even the biggest “pipe” will hit an oversubscribed backplane
Bandwidth
Even the biggest “pipe” will hit an oversubscribed backplane
Ex: Public cloud SaaS
Public internet cloud access is insufficient
Volume of data makes this the weakest link

13. The Traditional Network
Access via “public” means
Internet
Too many chokepoints
Source: Forrester

14. Presented to a Compass customer Eliminate public internet
An Alternate Approach
Presented to a Compass customer
Direct Peering
Direct cloud connectivity
Eliminate public internet
Internet
Campus
DC1
DC2
AWS
EQIX DC
Cloud Exchange
Internet Exchange
I2 Provider
Azure I2
Source: Equinix

15. Eliminate Network Bottlenecks
Network only as fast as slowest component
Backplane contention
Considerations:
Top of rack switching
Faster switches
10, 25, 40, 50, 100GB
Graphic courtesy of Mellanix

16. Summary Role of IT is increasingly strategic
Balance corporate requirements with platform alternatives
Speed of delivery will only continue to grow
Lower latency
Higher bandwidth speeds
The important question:
Can the network support what you want to do?
Must eliminate contention/chokepoints
Internal and external
Failure to do so will result in:
Ineffective operation
Customer dissatisfaction
Must find partners agile enough to quickly adapt

17. Thank you
Chris Crosby, CEO, Compass Datacenters