State of Enterprise Datacenter

Todays Speakers

Sachin Chheda
Director of Solutions
Nutanix

Spencer Lail
Global Solutions Architect
Brocade

Alan Cohen
Chief Commercial Officer
Illumio

Todays Discussion

State of Datacenter

Networking

Security

About Nutanix
Make datacenter infrastructure invisible,
elevating IT to focus on applications and services

3750+ customers
Over 90 countries
6 continents

Founded in 2009
3 years: NPS +90
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The Datacenter is Evolving

Cloud Generation

Virtualization Generation

Intelligent
Software

Public Cloud

Client-Server
Generation

x86

x86

1990s

x86

x86

x86

x86

2000s

2010>

Is Cloud the Answer (to support Digitalization)

Rapid Time to Market
I deployed my application
in five minutes.

One-Click Simplicity
No more time spent on low-level
infrastructure management.
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Fractional IT Consumption
I use and pay for just what I
need only when I need it.

Continuous Innovation
New capabilities are available
on a regular basis.

IT Applications and Workloads: Traditional

Effort per release

Traditional IT Projects and Applications

Time
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Traditional IT Projects
Significant investment and
scope
Little opportunities for
small/quick changes
Traditional applications
and big iron databases

Monolithic bare
metal and some
virtualized

IT Applications and Workloads: Next Gen

Traditional IT Projects and Applications
Effort per release

Next Gen IT Projects

Smaller, frequent releases
Accommodate changing requirements
Next-gen databases (NoSQL) and
applications servers using continuous
innovation and DevOps model

Time
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Dynamic
virtualized,
containers, cloud

Tomorrows Hybrid Applications

Hybrid App Lifecycle

Dev/Test

Cloud /OnPremise

Staging

Cloud /OnPremise

Production

Cloud /OnPremise

DR

Cloud /OnPremise

Risk?

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Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform

Build + Maintain
Dynamic Resource
Management

Advanced Data
Optimization

Intelligent
Analytics

Simplified
Management

Distributed File System

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Cloud
For the Enterprise

Networking

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Legacy Network Limitations

North-south optimized
Inefficient link utilization
Individually managed switches

Aggregation

Rigid architecture

Core

Slow time to value from hyperconverged system deployments

No network virtualization

Access

VM-ignorant

Data Center Design Stack

Controller based
(e.g. VMware NSX, VXLAN)

Virtualization

Controller-less
(e.g. BGP-EVPN, VXLAN)

Automation

Fabrics

Platforms

Automation
(e.g. Python, Ansible, Puppet,YANG model REST and Netconf,
OpenStack, VMware vRealize plugins, OpenFlow)

Layer 2 Optimized Fabric

IP Fabric
Layer 3 Optimized Fabric

Network Operating System

Extensible Switches
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Brocade Open Solution

Business Logic
Orchestration

Orchestration and Provisioning

Application
Control

Virtual
Infrastructure

Physical
Infrastructure

BFO

Network Apps
Network Controller

BVC

Network

Network Functions

Server

Storage

Network
Virtualization

Layer 27
Functions

Virtual
Machines

Software
Defined
Storage

Network

Compute

Storage

vRouter

vADX

Agile, High Performing Infrastructure

Fully distributed scale-out systems
SW-based distributed control planes
Self-healing capabilities
Non-disruptive, automated capacity addition
Data Center interconnect options

For More Information

https://www.brocade.com
Brocade & Nutanix Partner Brief: Deploying Hyperconverged Systems for
Mission-Critical Workloads
Customer Reference: Lake Emergency Medical Services
Deployment Guide: Nutanix Hyperconverged Appliance with the Brocade
VDX ToR Switch
Configuration Tool: VDX ToR Automated Configuration Tool for Nutanix
(Available at MyBrocade.com)

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Security

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INTERNAL USE ONLY

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Distributed & Dynamic

Traditional Data Center

Todays Security Challenges

Firewall
Problem # 1

Anywhere on
Anything

Problem # 2

Problem # 3

Speed, Agility & Surface Area of

DevOps
Attack

Moving Toward Infinite Attack

Surface of Data Centers

MAIN FRAME
1M Users

PC
18+ Users

MOBILE | CLOUD
2006+ Users

INTERNET OF THINGS
?

What Is Your Attack Surface?

Prod

Dev

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1: Identify your attack surface

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What Is Your Security Strategy?

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2: Identify + secure your riskiest

connections

Prod

Dev

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Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)

Security Delivered in Any Environment
WORKLOADS

Context &
Telemetry

Data
Center

Security
Policy

Virtual Enforcement Node (VEN)

Policy Compute Engine (PCE)

Antenna installed or baked in to image

Linux & Windows

Central Brain
Consumed via cloud or on premises

MISSION

TEAM

WE SHUT DOWN THE ATTACK

SURFACES INSIDE THE DATA
CENTER AND CLOUD

Leadership team from:

VMware, Cisco, Nicira, McAfee, Juniper,

Riverbed, Ruckus, and Palo Alto Networks
November 2014:

John Thompson
(Chairman of MSFT) joins Board

SELECT CUSTOMERS:

Whats Really Going On Inside

Your Data Center and Cloud?
Illumio Tells You.

SECURITY BUYERS GUIDE

www.illumio.com/Nutanix-Webinar-Oct-2016
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Journey to Enterprise Cloud

Cloud Inspired
Hypercoverged
Infrastructure
Integrated
Compute &
Storage

Enterprise
Cloud
Native Public Cloud

Native Virtualization
Multi-hypervisor Support

Cloud Automation
Application Mobility

Hybrid-cloud Services

Container Support

VM-centric Storage
Machine Intelligence
Backup & DR
Services

Systems and
Operations Management
File and Block Storage

Network Segmentation
Application Ecosystem
Object Storage

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Getting Started: Offers!

For qualified IT organizations attending this trade show
Sign up for hands-on technical workshops
Understand how much better life can be with Nutanix HCI
Explore Brocade Ethernet Fabrics
Get time with infrastructure experts to plan
Understand how to architect and migrate infrastructure
Get a complementary attack surface assessment from Illumio

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Where to start
Setup a customized
briefing
StateofIT@nutanix.com

Nutanix community:
next.nutanix.com
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