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Catching up to the Cloud:The Network’s Rapidly Evolving Role In ITaaS
VMworld Super Session
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Is IT-as-a-Service a Good Idea?
• Our survey shows 43% say somewhat/extremely attractive
Extremely unattractive; 6%
Somewhat unattractive; 16%
Neutral; 34%
Somewhat attractive; 31%
Extremely attractive; 12%
Source: F5 survey of 538 Enterprise IT professionals, July 2011
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The Shift to The Dynamic Data Center
• The static data center used to work
• Then came virtualization & cloud
• Then the era of applications
• Then traffic diversification
• And now IT is buckling …
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Cloud Computer: IDG Global Cloud Study
• 88%: Cloud is a priority within next 18 months
• 70%: Security is critical for cloud
• 68%: High availability is key for cloud
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The Shift to The Dynamic Data Center
• 64% of developers including video in apps
• 1,912 average web transactions per user per day
• 28% of developers use HTML5
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Traffic Diversification
• Amazon: 100 billion objects stored in S3
• Google: 5 billion API calls/day
• Facebook: 5 billion API calls/day
• npr: 1.1 billion API-delivered stories/month
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How Far Along are You?
Changing the way IT thinks
Hybrid cloud
Chargeback
Self-service provisioning
PaaS
IaaS
Storage virtualization
Server virtualization
26%
35%
48%
34%
33%
32%
11%
6%
67%
57%
44%
57%
54%
54%
47%
25%
7%
8%
8%
9%
13%
14%
42%
69%
Source: F5 survey of 538 Enterprise IT professionals, July 2011
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When will IT-as-a-Service become common?
1 year 3 years 5 years 7 years or more Never
7%
36% 37%
19%
7%
Source: F5 survey of 538 Enterprise IT professionals, July 2011
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Problem: Networks Aren’t Adaptable Enough
Applications Focus on Business Logic and Functionality
Traditional Networks are Focused on Connectivity
• New Security Hole• High Cost To Scale• Slow Performance
Network Administrator Application Developer
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How Do You Fix the Problem?
Hire an Army of Developers?Add More Infrastructure?
More Bandwidth
Multiple Point Solutions
Network Administrator Application Developer
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How Automation Helps – Automated Policies
• Optimizing the network for specific applications takes weeks … and can be frustrating
• Automated application policies reduce process to hours
• Applies to applications, the network, cloud, etc.
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Will Your Organization Achieve IT-as-a-Service?
• Our survey shows 43% say somewhat/extremely likely they will
Extremely unlikely; 8%
Somewhat unlikely; 20%
Neutral; 28%
Somewhat likely; 31%
Extremely likely; 12%
Source: F5 survey of 538 Enterprise IT professionals, July 2011
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A Brave New World …
• Applications are complex, composite, distributed
• Workplace is mobile, non-PC endpoints abound
• Traffic is diversified
• Everything creates and consumes data
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Applications Are Central
• The network used to manage applications
• In the future, applications will manage the network
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IT Must Change
• Today you configure the network largely by hand
• Tomorrow, if you don’t change, you will drown
• Instead, build a dynamic data center
• And manage the manager
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Dynamic Data Center
• Reconfigure dynamically
• Manage by policy, not device
• Context-aware policies
• ADC manages services
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Application Control Plane Architecture
• 10-100x faster deployment of applications
• Reduces CapEx
• Reduces OpEx
• Enhanced scalability
• Enhanced security
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