Rick Villars, IDC

The Future of Cloud
Richard Villars
VP, Datacenter & Cloud
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Key Drivers for Cloud Decisions
Everything-as-a-service alters business and financing models
Industry digitization alters functional IT requirements
Business entanglement drives cross industry data sharing
Globalization conflicts with traditional datacenter location strategies
Volatility in beliefs and policies about collection, retention, and use of data
Data exploitation driven by institutionalization of cyber warfare
Modularization of IT through convergence, software defined, and hyperscale
Data gravity drives movement of most data into cloud datacenters
Demand for variable IT resources to support short lived campaigns and analytics efforts
Use of Smart IT based on active cognition and analytics-based automation
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Key Drivers for Cloud Decisions
Everything-as-a-service alters business and financing models
Industry digitization alters functional IT requirements
Business entanglement drives cross industry data sharing
Globalization conflicts with traditional datacenter location strategies
Volatility in beliefs and policies about collection, retention, and use of data
Data exploitation driven by institutionalization of cyber warfare
Modularization of IT through convergence, software defined, and hyperscale
Data gravity drives movement of most data into cloud datacenters
Demand for variable IT resources to support short lived campaigns and analytics efforts
Use of Smart IT based on active cognition and analytics-based automation
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Everything as a Service: Industrial IoT
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Where Are The Servers?
X86 Server Installed base
20,000,000
19,000,000
18,000,000
17,000,000
16,000,000
15,000,000
14,000,000
13,000,000
12,000,000
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Not in Datacenters
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Business Entanglement:
Where Are The Servers?
X86 Server Installed base
20,000,000
19,000,000
18,000,000
17,000,000
16,000,000
15,000,000
14,000,000
13,000,000
12,000,000
2010
2011
2012
2013
Internal Server Closets and Rooms
2014
2015
2016
2017
Service Provider Points of Presense
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Winning Organizations Take Advantage
of Modularized IT
SDDC is not a product portfolio
SDDC is an operating model
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Riding the Technology Wave
Today’s Enterpise DC
4 to 5 year hardware
refresh cycles
Manage mismatched
cycles for compute,
storage, network
High migration costs
Software Defined Datacenter
< 3 year hardware refresh cycles
Tech cycles are totally
independent
Low migration costs
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The Race to Build Liquidity
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Data Gravity
Concentration of Data and Datacenters
App
Data
Public
Data
Mobile
Data
SP &
Cloud
Most new Datacenters
will be near cloud Datacenters
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Variable IT:
Accelerate Asset Lifecycles
Bespoke development
Disjointed, incremental
enhancement
Long life vs useful life
Modular, homogenous
design & construction
Continual component
recycling
Short app life vs
evergreen service
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A Systems View of Business
Systems of
Record
Systems of
Engagement
Systems of
Insight
Systems of
Action
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A Systems View of IT Development
Systems of
Record
Systems of
Engagement
Systems of
Insight
Systems of
Action
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