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Cloud Computing and Consumerization VDI PERFORMANCE STILL FALLS SHORT OF PCS MICROSOFT: Home EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK Editor’s Letter BRIAN MADDEN: THE TRANS- MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE Currents FORMATION OF Mi AN IT GUY Brian Madden: The Trans- BOB PLANKERS: formation of IT’LL ALL BE MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE: CREATING TOMORROW’S DATA CENTERS DATA TOMORROW’S CREATING MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE: an IT Guy SOFTWARE SOON Bob Plankers: It’ll All Be Software Soon Steve Gunderson:CLOUD From the Front Lines COMPUTING: Cloud IF YOU CAN’T Computing: If You Can‘tBEAT Beat ’EM, ‘Em, JoinJOI ‘Em N ’EM VDI IT teams are falling Performance Still Fallsbehind in the cloud adoption Short ofgame—and PCs that’s bad Microsoft:for business. Everything But the Kitchen Sink Jonathan Eunice: Are We There Yet? OCT. 2012 MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE • OCTOBER 2012 1 Editor’s Letter The Times They Are a Changin’ Home Editor’s Letter By Alex Barrett existing assets? How do I manage these Editor in Chief off-site resources? What new skill sets do I Currents need? How secure is the cloud, really? Will it cost more or less than the old way of doing Brian Madden: business? What’s my exit strategy if these The Trans- WELCOME TO Modern Infrastructure. This new computing approaches are a miserable formation of an IT Guy monthly e-zine is designed to help savvy IT failure? professionals build enterprise data centers, It is all tantalizing but terrifying, and Bob Plankers: while keeping an eye on shifts in trends like Modern Infrastructure’s goal is to help IT It’ll All Be cloud computing and consumerization. make informed, reasoned decisions about Software Soon What’s modern about Modern Infrastruc- cloud strategy. ture? As a tech journalist who’s been talking At the same time, enterprise IT is on a Steve Gunderson: From the Front to IT pros for years, I can’t help but notice collision course with another key “threat”: Lines that lately IT has started doing things differ- end users. Helping organizations survive— ently and faces new questions. and thrive—in this era of consumerization, Cloud Traditionally, the role of enterprise tech- Modern Infrastructure has enlisted end-user Computing: If nology publications has been to support IT computing experts like Brian Madden to You Can‘t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em pros as they make infrastructure purchasing weigh in with a regular column that lays out decisions—decisions about which types of what IT needs to do to meet the needs of VDI servers, operating systems, networks and today’s end users. Performance storage are best suited to support an orga- Infrastructure, meanwhile, is still infra- Still Falls Short of PCs nization’s workloads. But increasingly, IT structure, forever complex and evolving. As professionals are grappling with another such, Modern Infrastructure also hopes to Microsoft: kind of decision: What infrastructure can help IT answer tough technical questions Everything I get away with not purchasing? We need a about platform selection, maximizing per- But the magazine that reflects this new world order. formance, minimizing management head- Kitchen Sink As cloud computing becomes more aches and ensuring optimal availability. pervasive and mature, I see IT pros who are The answers to the questions Modern Jonathan Eunice: Are evaluating their every move through the Infrastructure seeks to answer don’t lend We There filter of cloud computing. Rather than buy themselves to a 140-character tweet or Yet? a new server or make a new hire, they’re even an online forum. The tough questions asking, “Can I defray capital expenditures never do. These questions warrant serious and maintain existing staff levels by out- thought and research, expressed in reported sourcing some portion of my infrastructure features, columns and news analysis penned and operations?” by leading editors and IT experts. We hope Before IT can say yes to cloud, there are Modern Infrastructure provides value, and countless other questions: How will this let us know how you think we’re doing. new, virtual infrastructure jibe with my Welcome, and thanks! n MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE • OCTOBER 2012 2 Home Currents{ all the news you can use about modern infrastructure } Editor’s Letter Currents Brian Madden: The Trans- formation of an IT Guy ONE ON ONE Which of the cloud players might win Bob Plankers: the battle for dominance? It’ll All Be The Cloud Standards You can complain about whether Amazon or Software Soon War Is On VMware is the right model, but we can say with great assurance that they both dom- Steve Gunderson: From the Front AS CLOUD COMPUTING lurches toward greater inate their respective parts of the market, Lines maturity, issues such as common standards and that is driving a certain amount of cus- and interoperability remain hurdles—even tomer perceptions. Cloud for users encouraged by the cloud’s promise Still, some people feel uncomfortable Computing: If of better infrastructure management and with [this] dominance … and they have to You Can‘t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em reduced costs. make a case for there being other standards, In this One on One interview, we sat platforms and APIs. But with 90% of public VDI down with Randy Bias, co-founder and chief cloud capacity being on Amazon and 90% Performance technology officer of Cloudscaling, an open of enterprise virtualization clouds being Still Falls Short of PCs source cloud infrastructure provider, to talk on VMware, it’s hard for me to believe that about the lack of standards among cloud another standard is going to come out and Microsoft: providers and how today’s patchwork will clock those—that just doesn’t make sense. Everything ultimately give way to a more uniform cloud But the universe. Kitchen Sink Is it a problem that public and private cloud providers’ APIs haven’t been Jonathan Eunice: Are Many major cloud providers have compatible with one another? We There application programming interfaces that There are two different architectural ap- Yet? aren’t compatible with others’ APIs. proaches. The VMware pattern is what we Will this change? call enterprise virtualization clouds, which What I’ve seen is that infrastructure that is is the ability to take existing enterprise important to the business ultimately drives stovepipes—all the little silos of different toward standards and APIs and homogene- hardware, software and network and storage ity, simply because without those things, it’s architectures—and just recreating them and difficult to create a plethora of standards and virtualizing them. But [with that approach], APIs higher up the stack. you don’t get the economies of scale. MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE • OCTOBER 2012 3 Currents So this kind of cloud has been driven by and it’s not trying to manage lots of stove- the need for greater server consolidation, pipes but to make the applications reflect greater utilization rates. the underlying infrastructure. The Amazon approach is more reminis- Home cent of what the Internet giants have been doing. Instead of building stovepipes, they How do these cloud models differ Editor’s Letter build layer cakes, where they have a whole in practical terms? stack of services that support each other, There is a very big difference in the types of Currents from the concrete to the software. And then applications and workloads supported on at the software layer, they have a whole each. Brian Madden: bunch of applications that leverage that VMware customers have database servers The Trans- whole stack. We refer to this as an elastic like Oracle that are old and don’t have any formation of an IT Guy infrastructure cloud. It caters to greater scal- basic replication; they rely on the infrastruc- ability for the apps and the infrastructure, ture to have high amounts of availability and Bob Plankers: It’ll All Be Software Soon Steve Gunderson: From the Front Lines OVERHEARD | VMworld 2012 Edition Cloud Computing: If You Can‘t Beat “ We all owe a round of applause to Hyper-V 2012, “ Software-defined data ‘Em, Join ‘Em because I think the competition in this space is really the centers are great, but we reason that we’re starting to see some licensing reform from don’t know what we don’t VMware.” know yet.” VDI Performance —DAN BRINKMANN, solutions architect at Lewan & Associates, —KEITH NORBIE, VP at Nexus, Still Falls on VMware’s eliminating vRAM licensing a Stratos company, Short of PCs responding to Maritz’s keynote Microsoft: Everything “ It’s not a post-PC world. But the The PC is alive and “ Yes, this is an admission Kitchen Sink will be for a long time. that we made things overly It’s a multi-device complex. Mea culpa.” Jonathan world.” —Outgoing VMware CEO “ There are technical things Eunice: Are —From VMware CTO PAUL MARITZ on the company’s I want to learn, but a lot of We There STEVE HERROD’s decision to roll back its vRAM it is, how do you sell this to Yet? keynote speech licensing policy the business, how do you get them to want it as opposed to you telling them they need to use this—on the desktop “ There’s no place like 127.0.0.1.” side? From the server side, I —Spotted on an attendee’s T-shirt think they get it.” —JAKE PAWLAK, IT architect at CNO Financial, talking about why he attended VMworld MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE • OCTOBER 2012 4 Currents that the application is designed to assume up and deliver an Amazon equivalent that is that the infrastructure never goes down. more than just an API. We see a very different [experience] for customers that Home adopt Amazon, like What role, if any, does open source Netflix, and they play in cloud standards? Editor’s Letter are redesigning With this particular disruption, open source, their applications open standards are leading the charge.
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