Day 3/ Session

Applied Innovation

Saji Thoppil, practice head-platforms & storage, Wipro opined that having the right infrastructure was critical given the changing equation with increased challenges, where people tend to miss the holistic picture

Thoppil observed that the changing datacenter equation evolved a concept like ‘Inflection Pyramid’ emerged from the Moore’s Law reflecting virtualization, performance per watt and density as critical tools for the business. Synthesizing business requirement is very vital for any organization be it a 10,000 employee organization, where clear demarcation of business functionalities are done.

Thoppil suggested that it is ideal to take an intricate look at the deployment approach and comparison taking into account the organizational size, space, cooling and power aspects, using the pyramid components.

From Thoppil’s standpoint, Fluidstate data center framework helps in deciding upon the compute power, provisioning, unified storage needs, applications needed, defining accounting and auditing structure and so on The model drive capacity approach could be a step function of the capacity to be determined using blades, blade Chassis, disk, drive bays, storage controller, backup, network ports and so on. Evolution of cloud computing is paving way for public cloud adoption enabling the organization to reap the benefits of cloud technology including security, integration with existing systems, loss of control over data, availability, performance, governance and regulatory compliance.

Integrating cloud with Web 2.0 would increase efficiencies within DR site creating virtual appliances and scale up service transparency in re-locations.

Thoppil found it imperative to standardize cloud for accelerated establishment patterns for small, medium, large infrastructure within the datacenter. He also argued that data centre and business alignment are critical to understand business capability, business model, business scenario, processes, information model within the converged processes.

— N Geetha