Journey to the Software Defined Data Center: EMA Research Results Revealed

Obstacles and Priorities on the

Journey to the Software Defined

Data Center

June 10, 2014

Torsten Volk

Research Director

Enterprise Management Associates

Jim Frey

VP of Research

Enterprise Management Associates

Today’s Presenters

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Jim Frey, Vice President of Research, Network Management

Jim has over 25 years of experience in the computing industry developing,

deploying, managing, and marketing software and hardware products, with

the last 20 of those years spent in network and infrastructure operations and

security management, straddling both enterprise and service provider sectors.

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Torsten Volk, Research Director, Systems Management

Torsten has over 10 years of conceptualizing and managing highly complex IT

projects within the virtualization, cloud, and custom software application

development realm. In his past positions, Torsten has helped organizations

like The World Bank, Prometric and Cricket Communications evaluate and

identify the business value of emerging enterprise technologies.

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Are Business Users Happy with IT Services?

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40.00%

50.00%

60.00%

70.00%

80.00%

Less than 4 days 5-14 days More than 15 days

Yes, always

Yes, sometimes

No, typically not

No, never

Are you happy with IT service delivery?

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Key IT Pain Points in 2014


42%

39%

38%

38%

34%

33%

31%

30%

28%

28%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

High cost of networking

Slow manual processes to reconfigure infrastructure toaccommodate change

Complexity of integrating external applications and services withthe corporate data center

High cost of storage

Recruiting, training and retaining talent

Underutilization of IT infrastructure

Slow provisioning of new applications

Infrastructure that does not capture application requirements,policies or KPIs

Poor quality of service delivery

Silos between storage, network and server groups

What is the Software Defined Data Center?


49%

46%

44%

42%

41%

39%

38%

37%

36%

36%

34%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Centralized management from a single control point

Best-practice, repeatable configurations of software and infrastructure forworkload deployment

Orchestration and automation to easily deploy applications across silos

Operational analytics

Easy movement of workloads between external public clouds and internal datacenter resources

Policy driven network provisioning

Support for multiple hypervisors

Elastic infrastructure for massive scalability

Policy driven placement of applications

Policy driven storage provisioning

Open infrastructure APIs to enable platform choice

Who Did We Ask and Why?


69%

58%

57%

57%

56%

55%

54%

51%

50%

48%

46%

45%

42%

41%

39%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Central management software for physical, virtual and cloud resources

Software only storage solution, (IBM Virtual Storage Center, EMC ViPR, DataCore, Atlantis, Virsto, HPStoreVirtual VSA, etc.)

Cloud group or task force composed of storage, network and server experts

Cross-functional processes to orchestrate provisioning and management of storage, network and serverresources

Solution for server administrators to provision their own storage volumes

Continuous/centralized capacity management for physical, virtual and cloud resources

Ability to centrally manage multiple public cloud resources

Adoption of multiple hypervisors (Xen, Hyper-V, ESXi, KVM, PowerVM, Oracle, etc.)

Policy-based automation of infrastructure for routine adjustments without human intervention

Software Defined Networking (virtual overlay network)

Software Defined Networking (separated control plane from delivery plane)

Multi-virtualization or multi-cloud management solution (ServiceMesh, Enstratius, Convirture,RightScale, vCloud Automation Center, SCALR, etc.)

APIs for developers to provision their own app environments (servers, network and storage)

Configuration management solutions (Puppet, Opscode Chef, SaltStack, ServiceMesh, etc.)

Adoption of object storage (EMC Atmos, AWS S3, SWIFT, Ceph, etc.)

Who Did We Ask and Why?


IT Executives

IT Operations Staff

Line of Business & Business Executives

27%

27%

46%

500 - 2,499 2,500 - 9,999 10,000 or more

RoleCompany Size

Most Impactful Technology in 2014


46%

13%

8%

8%

7%

6%

5%4%

3%Cloud-based IT services (IaaS, PaaS, and applications in private or public clouds)

Centralized capacity management for physical, virtual and cloud environments

Converged infrastructure (servers, network, storage and management APIs in one)

Infrastructure resources and management based on open standards and openframeworks

Automation of operations management tasks

Software-defined networking

Software-defined storage

Application-aware storage (storage automatically provisioned based on applicationrequirements)

Application-aware networking (networks automatically provisioned based on applicationrequirements)

Impact of Exploding Business Unit Requests


0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

500 - 2,499employees

2,500 - 9,999employees

10,000 employees ormore

Added responsibilities & skills required

More cross domain knowledge needed

Increase in staff required

IT operations staff feels threatened bychange

Traditional processes are breakingdown under the load

Business units are bypassing IT andutilize public cloud services instead

Traditional IT roles stay unchanged

There is no increase in number ofrequests coming from business units

Business Drivers of the Software Defined Data Center


0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

500 - 2,499 employees 2,500 - 9,999employees


Increased security

Better business alignment of IT infrastructure

More rapid application provisioning

Easy movement of applications to the best possibleenvironment

Accelerated application lifecycle for faster time tovalue

Central management of application environmentsacross multiple infrastructure silos

Simpler and more reliable performancemanagement

Improved resource utilization

Simpler and more reliable compliance management

Lower OPEX

No compelling business drivers

Key Investment Areas


0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

500 - 2,499 employees 2,500 - 9,999 employees 10,000 employees ormore

Capacity management tools

Multi virtualization and/or cloud managementplatform

Configuration management

Centralized management of physical, virtual andcloud resources

Infrastructure automation & orchestration

Software defined storage

Network automation

Intelligent resource scheduling

Automation of server and application lifecyclemanagement

Dynamic application placement solution

Perceived Risk of Moving Applications


0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

500 - 2,499 employees 2,500 - 9,999employees


Low

Medium

High

Importance of Integrating Public Cloud &

Corporate Data Center


10%

15%

33%

31%

11%

Unimportant

Slightlyimportant

Important

Very important

Critical

59%

40%

38%

36%

31%

30%

27%

24%

23%

22%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Security

Performance

Cost

Compliance

Visibility / transparency

Central governance

Configuration management

Integration with legacy/on-preminfrastructure

Integrating management withinternal/private cloud resources

Software lifecycle management

Key Perceived Challenges

Pain Points when Provisioning Applications


0% 20% 40% 60%

Security

Management & governance

Capacity planning

Speed of provisioning

Application performance / service levels

Consistent configuration

Placement location (physical, virtual, cloud)

CAPEX

Provisioning errors

OPEX

None of the above

Network Servers Storage

The Importance of Addressing IT Silos


2% 1%

15%

48%

34%

Very Unimportant

Unimportant

Neither Important norUnimportant

Important

Very Important

How Software Defined Storage Can Help


39%

38%

38%

38%

36%

35%

33%

33%

32%

3%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

Provides common data service, high availability, snapshots anddeduplication independently of underlying hardware

Supports hardware from multiple SAN vendors

Is delivered as software, without the need to purchase newhardware

Enables policy driven provisioning of storage volumes

Supports commodity hardware

Centralized management of multi-vendor storage

Support of multiple server hypervisors

Ability to centrally manage file, block, HDFS and object storage

Eliminates gravity of storage

None of the above

Key Networking Challenges


15%

14%

13%

11%11%

10%

8%

8%

7%3%

Ensuring network performance

Adequately planning network capacity

Troubleshooting/monitoring across physical and virtualnetworkingIntegrated provisioning across physical and virtualnetworkingScalability and extensibility of networking equipment

Applying/enforcing application-centric security policies

Application aware network provisioning andmanagementRapid adjustment of network paths when applicationsare movedToo many layers and too much command line coding

Rapid provisioning of VLANs

The Role of OpenStack


49%51% Yes

No

49%

45%

43%

38%

35%

32%

32%

32%

29%

26%

24%

21%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Scalability

Cost

Feature range

Quality of code base

Interoperability and portability of applicationworkloads between OpenStack clouds

Comprehensive set of APIs / Provide self-servicecapabilities to internal customers

Prefer open source software

Freedom of choice in hardware vendors

Adoption of the KVM hypervisor

Compatibility with Amazon EC2

Large solution ecosystem support

Adopted OpenStack as part of a commercial product

Business DriversAdoption in 2014

Key Security Considerations of the SDDC


20%

13%

11%

10%9%

9%

8%

7%

6%5% 2%

Performance impact of firewalls, IPS, or other activeenforcementSecuring self-service access to applicationdevelopers/business unitsTraffic separation based on compliance rules

Rapid application provisioning and tear down

Configuration drift

Identification of what to secure

Creation of application centric security policies

Maintaining policies during live migration

Traffic inspection at the hypervisor level

Securing east-west traffic

Other (Please specify)

Conclusion: 2014 is the Year of the

Software Defined Data Center

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