Dell - The Incredible Shrinking Datacenter
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This document summarizes Dell's partnership with Nutanix to provide hyper-converged infrastructure solutions using Dell servers and Nutanix software. It discusses how the convergence of technologies is leading to more integrated systems, and how Dell and Nutanix are accelerating data center transformations through their partnership. Examples are provided of customers like Williams and the FBI who deployed Dell XC Series appliances powered by Nutanix to improve performance, management, and cost savings for their virtual desktop infrastructure and other workloads.
Dell - The Incredible Shrinking Datacenter
- 1. Dell Partner Session The Incredible Shrinking Datacenter
- 2. 2 A flexible software-defined foundation for the future Integrated Built on open standards, making it easier to quickly adapt to changing needs Modular Cost-effectively scales up, down, or out as workloads and budgets dictate Automated Simplifies IT operations and service delivery Best-of-breed systems System of systems Server-centric, software-defined systems IT evolution Future-Ready IT design tenets Hardware-accelerated | Software-based | Workload-centric
- 3. 3 Convergence of technology domains is leading to unprecedented density and integration Converging hardware domains Integrated systems will constitute a $20.5B market by 2019 *Sources: Gartner “Integrated Systems Forecast, 1Q15; Gartner “DevOps—Not a Market, but a Philosophy”. Addressable = % of market that would consider integrated systems vs. Forecast = forecasted sales of integrated systems . . . and SW-driven approaches are increasingly influencing infrastructure In 2016, DevOps will become “a mainstream strategy employed by 25% of Global 2000 organizations”
- 4. 4 Converging compute, storage & virtualization Server Network Shared storage area network & Network attached storage (SAN/NAS) Hyper-convergence in the data center
- 5. 5 Momentum continues with Dell – Nutanix partnership June 2015 XC Appliances announced at Nutanix .NEXT 2013 Initial discussions between Dell and Nutanix execs Mar. 2015 XC Appliances on 13G platform begin shipping June 2014 Partnership & product strategy announced Dell – Nutanix Partnership Nov. 2014 First XC appliances ship on 12G server platform XC Series • Storage node • GPU support • Nutanix AHV Nov. 2015 XC Appliances Announced at Dell World 2015 XC Series • 4N2U • All Flash Nodes • SED Drives Apr. 2016 1st Nutanix-based Intel E5-2600 v4 platform Momentum 30+ countries 1000s of nodes 100s of customers XC Series • Intel E5-2600 v4 in all models • SAP NetWeaver certification
- 6. 6 Dell and Nutanix – Accelerating data center transformation 4Q15 1Q16 2Q16 3Q16 4Q16 1Q17 Exp. 2Q17 Dell XC Customer Growth • 2016 pipeline over $1B • 20% of sales from repeat buyers • Number of XC nodes doubled vs year ago Nov. 2014 – 1 model / 5 configurations June 2016 – 7 models / hundreds of customizable configurations The Dell + Nutanix momentum continues to grow
- 7. 7 Dell Advantage in the New World Commitment to open standards and cross- domain expertise is vital Track record of delivering new technologies for ease of use, and affordably
- 8. 88 Dell XC Series with Nutanix deliver measurable value 69% less data center space* lower cost than traditional solutions for desktop virtualization** 27% 71% less time required for ongoing management* 0 downtime upgrades* 510% average 5 year ROI* Compared to traditional VDI solutions** 6Xfaster time to value Payback period as short as 7.5months* 58% lower total cost of ownership over 5 years* Up to 53% less power and $
- 9. 9 Opportunity: Williams constantly needs to refine its IT services to provide employees with the best solutions for competitive advantage Solution: Williams worked with Dell on two separate projects. First to migrate its email and instant messaging to Microsoft Office 365™ and second to install Dell XC Series powered by Nutanix in its trackside and factory VDI environments. Benefits: Migration on time, within budget and with 99 percent user satisfaction Hyper-converged architecture lets engineers access data in seconds instead of minutes for trackside analysis Simplified management frees up days of staff time to make crucial upgrades elsewhere Compact trackside infrastructure saves $150,000 on freight fees each season “Dell ProSupport Plus is excellent. For example, we needed a replacement power supply for a server when we were trackside in Brazil. By the time the engineers got back to their hotel that evening there was a replacement waiting.” – Phil Cooper, IT Infrastructure Manager, Williams Accelerating Innovation
- 10. 10 Opportunity: The U.S. Department of Justice required a client virtualization solution for 50,000 named users within FBI Solution: • 600+ Dell XC appliances • Nutanix Acropolis and Prism • Dell Networking • Dell AppAssure data protection software • VMware ESXi • VMware Horizon 6 Benefits: • Expanded the global footprint • Lowered total cost of ownership • Simplified deployment sped time to value • Simplified VDI management • Increased user mobility • Maintained high security capabilities “As a trusted technology provider to federal agencies for more than 20 years, Dell is committed to providing its government customers with the tools they need to solve complex problems with efficient and effective IT solutions.” Improve VDI management, scalability and security
- 11. 11 Opportunity: Aubert, leading retailer in France, experienced response challenges for ERP system and website during peak times due to aged mixed vendor systems. Solution: • Dell XC Series web-scale converged appliances with Intel® Xeon® processors • Nutanix Acropolis and Prism • Dell Networking N4000 and N2000 switches • Dell DR4100 disk backup appliance Benefits: • 20% website traffic increase • 2X web page loading speed • 83% faster ERP access • 50% faster backups • 30% greater IT team efficiency “Quicker access to business data means better decision-making, and with our Dell XC web-scale hyper-converged appliance, we’ve increased access speeds dramatically.” Julien Navarro, CEO, NAOS (IT services provider to Aubert) Make Better Business Decisions
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Editor's Notes
- #5: Key Points: Native convergence (or hyper-convergence) is critical in the modern data center. Traditional three-tier architecture has scale-out compute (with virtualization) connected to scale-up storage. The storage network adds latency and becomes a bottleneck, especially as flash storage becomes more prevalent in all storage systems. Data has to be retrieved from storage every time some operation needs to be done in the server. This north-south traffic kills performance because it does not respect data gravity. Deploying and scaling out storage is complex and error-prone. Storage is managed in terms of logical unit numbers (LUNs) and redundant array of independent disks (RAID) sets, while hypervisors talk about virtual disks (vdisks) – different granularity Admins have to set up port bonding, multipathing, input/output (I/O) mapping etc., to deploy the network Nutanix eliminates the complexity and bottleneck of the storage network and delivers a converged solution for virtual environments that can be scaled out on demand.
- #6: 2 generations of Dell PowerEdge servers Didn’t get serious until June 2014 and quickly got to market Dell really believes in this technology and has made a huge investment in this product offering Launched first offering 5 months after based on 12G to meeting initial market demand Expanded the offers in march based on current Haswell Intel technology Will continue to expand the XC portfolio with range of cost-optimized performance and storage capacities to meet an increasing range of workload demands
- #9: Source: IDC White Paper, sponsored by Dell and Nutanix, “Quantifying the Business Value of Dell XC Powered by Nutanix Software,” August 2015 ** Source: “Dell and Nutanix Introduce a Converged VDI Application Appliance,” a Dell-sponsored paper by David Floyer, November 17, 2014. For the full paper, see: http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Dell_and_Nutanix_Introduce_a_Converged_VDI_Application_Appliance
- #10: Technology challenge: Fast access to large datasets and rapid deployment Solution: Dell XC trackside and factory Benefits: Greater than 20 times reduction in access times: — From two to three minutes to six seconds Quick payback: Small footprint saves $150,000 per season