Just arrived on the Showcase Floor at HP DISCOVER, the Lego datacenter is 3x4 feet and features a Flexible Datacenter. It was unveiled at the Industry Briefings at the event, and it has now been transported to the TS Consulting Datacenter Design Demo (#902) on the demo floor for all to admire.
We couldn't bring a full blown data center to the show floor so we thought using Lego would be the next best thing, and after-all, it's modular. IT is going modular. Whether we call it composable, IT as code, cell, container, it stretches from the physical facility all the way through to infrastructure as code. Modular IT is a necessity in the new style of business.
The big shift resulting in the rise of this New Style of Business requires a new IT operating/delivery model to respond to the demands for speed, scale and managing risk. It’s a shift we haven’t seen since that of e-commerce/Internet boom20 years ago. It’s not all transformational. Many enterprises will operate and want to capitalize on existing investments, but at the same time capitalize on the new opportunities.
It's not a journey for all though, it's different for each enterprise. We call it the right mix. This is often referred to as being bi-modal in nature. It’s a view on business services, apps, which of them are hosted where – on premise….off-premise, and it’s a mix of existing infrastructure, and what is needed to do new to meet the new style of business. This mix addresses converged infrastructure – the interplay of your server, storage and network platforms, hybrid delivery – the mix of IT on owner-operated premises or within the cloud, or hosted; software defined – and the depth of automation and the platform provided for DevOps teams. There’s not one answer, only individual ones. Each industry is unique, enterprises are unique, and their opportunities diverse. The influence of each of these is their unique journey. Based on where they are, and where they want to be we plot it, and we understand their future scenarios, and we deliver it.
In a modular way