Hyperscale is Taking Over the ITO Landscape
Taking a brute-force approach to managing large data centers is impractical, a fact Google, Facebook, and other web-scale giants discovered first-hand several years ago. To overcome this, these firms have pioneered hyperscale as a way of keeping their mega-services running efficiently, and now enterprises are following in their footsteps to address their growing Big Data workloads.
ServicesAngle editor Bert Latamore writes in Wikibon that the transition to hyperscale is inevitable, and advises vendors and CIOs to climb aboard the train before it leaves the station.
Hyperscale eliminates the need for embedded management capabilities in each device by moving this functionality up to an “overall management layer” that is both simpler and more effective than the traditional alternative. This methodology drives users to adopt stripped down commodity servers because it diminishes the value of the feature-rich hardware that vendors sell today.
Latamore points to the launch of Moonshot earlier this April as a sign that Hewlett-Packard is recognizing this shift in the market; it was step in the right direction, but the company still has a long way to go before it is ready for hyperscale. CIOs also have a lot of preparation to do. They can no longer ignore that hyperscale and cloud computing are changing the IT landscape. HR requirements are going down, and services are already being delivered as utilities via a network plug.
“CIOs need to start planning for this future today. This means developing that menu of business services that IT delivers and reorganizing the IT budget around them,” Latamore writes.
“It also means assessing those services: Which should be retained in house and which farmed out to SaaS? Which should be moved out to a colocation service or IaaS vendor and which kept in the data center? What new services should IT contract from the cloud to do things like Big Data analysis that never were part of the IT infrastructure? It also means assessing the IT staff and starting the reorganization towards a services-led organization.”
Read more about how hyperscale is impacting the ITO landscape on Wikibon.
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