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Western Digital — Flash Memory Summit (2018)
23 slides from Western Digital's conference presentation, 2018
Slide 1: The Future of Data Infrastructure
The Future of Data Infrastructure Phil Bullinger Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Systems ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Slide 2: Forward-Looking Statements
Forward-Looking Statements Safe Harbor | Disclaimers This presentation contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, statements regarding our data center products and technologies, expectations regarding data usage and storage, our business
Slide 3: The Evolving Role of Data
The Evolving Role of Data Creating the data-driven economy Data as Data as Data as Data as a record communication efficiency currency Richness Value ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3
Slide 4: Diverse and Connected Data Types
Diverse and Connected Data Types Tight coupling between Big Data and Fast Data Big Data Data Fast Data Aggregation Streaming Analytics INSIGHT MOBILITY Batch Analytics Machine Learning REAL-TIME PREDICTION RESULTS Modeling PRECISION Artificial SMART MACHINES Intelligence Scale Performance ©2018 West
Slide 5: The Changing Nature of Data Interaction
The Changing Nature of Data Interaction Past Current and Future Data Held Captive by Single Application Data Pooled and Shared by Multiple Applications create transform create store create transform app capture deliver store store transform access create access create store create deliver transform
Slide 6: Increasingly Dynamic Workloads
Increasingly Dynamic Workloads A survey of mid-sized and large-enterprise IT users found… 45% 70% of compute hours report inefficiencies and storage capacity in the time required to are utilized provision compute and storage resources Source: IDC White Paper, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise,
Slide 7: Driving New Demands on Data Infrastructure
Driving New Demands on Data Infrastructure Scalability Efficiency Agility Performance ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7
Slide 8: The Data Infrastructure (R)evolution
The Data Infrastructure (R)evolution Composable • Disaggregated compute and storage resources Hyper-Converged • Shared pool of resources that can be composed and • Software-defined with made available on demand deeper levels of abstraction Converged and automation • Preconfigured HW/SW for a specifi
Slide 9: Hyperconverged vs. Composable
Hyperconverged vs. Composable Flash Intensive Workload Scalability Compute Network Flash HDD Efficiency Compute Compute HDD Network Compute Compute Flash HDD Vs. Network Network Agility HDD Network Network Network Flash HDD Flash Flash HDD Network Flash Flash Flash HDD Performance Underutilized reso
Slide 10: Hyperconverged vs. Composable
Hyperconverged vs. Composable Capacity Intensive Workload Scalability Compute Network Flash HDD Efficiency Compute Compute HDD Network Compute Compute Flash HDD Vs. Network Network Agility HDD Network Network Network Flash HDD HDD HDD HDD Network HDD HDD Flash HDD Performance Underutilized resources
Slide 11: The Benefits of Composability
The Benefits of Composability Compute Network Flash HDD Greater economics, Compute Compute agility, efficiency and HDD Network Compute Compute simplicity at scale Flash HDD Vs. Network Network HDD Network Network Network Applicable to all Flash HDD environments – HDD HDD virtual, containers, HDD Net
Slide 12: Our Composable Infrastructure Vision
Our Composable Infrastructure Vision 1 2 3 4 Open Scalable Disaggregated Extensible ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12
Slide 13: Enabling Composable Infrastructure
Enabling Composable Infrastructure Data Fabric CPU GPU FPGA Memory Flash Disk Memory Fabric • No physical systems – only composed systems • No established hierarchy – CPU doesn’t ‘own’ the GPU or the Memory • All elements are peers on the network and they communicate with each other ©2018 Western Di
Slide 14: NVMf Fabric Devices
NVMf Fabric Devices Flash Disk Compute The New World of NVMf Fabric Devices Simpler building blocks Network matched to media performance Maintains multiple paths to the device Faster Time-to-Market of innovation ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 14
Slide 15: Purpose-Built Disaggregated Infrastructure
Purpose-Built Disaggregated Infrastructure Rack Option A: Rack Option B: More Flash Flash Enclosure More Disk Compute Enclosure Disk Enclosure ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 15
Slide 16: Introducing OpenFlex
Introducing OpenFlexTM Open standards enable vendor-neutral solutions OpenFlexTM F3000 Fabric Device and E3000 Fabric Enclosure OpenFlexTM D3000 Series Fabric Device High-performance, low-latency fabric High-capacity fabric device for Big device for Fast Data: AI, real-time Data: batch analytics, ma
Slide 17: OpenFlex Management API
OpenFlex Management API KingfishTM Physical and Logical/Virtual System Management SwordfishTM Logical Storage Management Redfish® Physical Server Management ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 17
Slide 18: OpenFlex Management API
OpenFlex Management API • Kingfish Open API builds on existing open standards KingfishTM Physical and Logical/Virtual System Management • Unified across entire SwordfishTM Logical Storage Management data infrastructure for delivering Redfish® Physical Server Management simplicity at scale • Providin
Slide 19: Software Orchestration
Software Orchestration Rapid composability New instances in seconds Optimize to the unique needs of an application or workload ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 19
Slide 20: Broad Ecosystem Support
Broad Ecosystem Support Focused on software composability tools and interoperable hardware ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 20
Slide 21: Western Digital OpenFlex Positioned to Accelerate Market Adoption
Western Digital OpenFlex Positioned to Accelerate Market Adoption Open 1 Firm commitment to an open standards-based approach Ecosystem 2 Strategic position in the ecosystem to help accelerate market adoption Trust 3 Trusted leader in data center products, technologies and infrastructure ©2018 Wester
Slide 22: Innovating for a Data-Centric World
Innovating for a Data-Centric World Visit at booth #207 for an OpenFlex demo wdc.com/opencomposable to learn more ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 22
Slide 23: ©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
©2018 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights reserved.