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Roadmap forData Center Consolidation
&
IncorporatingCloudTechnologies
Toby Ford
Assistant VP of TechnologyAT&T
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The Data Center Continuum
Swings Between
Infrastructures
&
Users
PacketDeliveryApplicationDeliveryServiceDeliveryService
Orchestration
The rise of L2 / L3
Infrastructure
Solve global
connectivity
challenges
WHATWHY
The rise of L4-7
Users
Solve global
performance
challenges
The rise of fabrics
Infrastructure
Solve global
scalability
challenges
The rise of APIs
Users
Solve user
experience
challenges
1990s2000s 2010s2015+
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The Bottom Line
3
Blurring
device
boundaries
3
Blurring
user
boundaries
1
Blurring
application
boundaries
2
Cloud & Data Center Transformation is a key investment to solve the blurring
boundary between what is “Inside” & “Outside” an enterprise
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Three Cloud & Data Center Mega-Trends
Emerge as Part of These Blurring Boundaries
•Pendulum swings from “smart pipes” to “dumb pipes”
•
Intelligence lives in virtualization software decoupled from the network hardware
•
Virtualization & management tools mitigate embedded intelligence
•Debate of “control” vs. “data” vs. “management” plane
Redefining Network Intelligence
•
Data Center fabric = convergence of storage & server infrastructure
•
Network fabric = flattened, meshed (fewer ties, embedded functions)
•
Next wave of investment will be on fabric across extended enterprise
Investing in Fabrics
•
Consumerization drives recreation wireless to primary connections
•“Mobile” definition expands to include nomadic (Wi
-Fi), mobile (3G), & remote(branch office)
•
Security & policy enforcement are critical as the network is the last enterprisedemarcation point
Revisiting Mobile Networking
