cloud today, gone tomorrow?

Future Ready Networks: Cloud Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Ann Matthews Head of Technology Strategy & Innovation, Retail Banking BTplc

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Agenda

Trends in Computing

Technology Trends & Moore’s Law

Market Trends

Data Centre Solutions

Cloud: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?


Trends in Computing

Mainframe: “A large high-speed computer, especially one supporting numerous workstations or peripherals”

Personal Computer: “A computer designed for use by one person at a time”

Cloud: “The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local

server or a personal computer.”

Smartphone: “A mobile phone that is able to perform many of the functions of a computer, typically having a relatively large screen and an operating system capable of running general-purpose applications”

Tablet Computer: “A small portable computer that accepts input directly on to its screen rather than via a keyboard or mouse”

*Oxford English Dictionary

1950s

1990s

Today

Today

Today


Cloud vs Personal Devices?

Trends in technology and the market indicate which is likely to win….


Technology Trends: Moore’s Law

1965: "The number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24 months.”

Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder

2000 Translation: “Computers and networks get twice as fast and cost half as much every two years”

Today’s Translation: “Moore’s Law is broken. Computers and networks get much more than twice as fast and cost much less than half as much, every two years”


An example: Logaritm

ic S

cale

This Century

Moore’s Law


Compute Power

1943: Colossus the world’s 1st digital programmable computer

Today: Laptop computer, 5GB memory, less than 500 Euros

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The “Wires”

1984: World's 1st 140 Mb/s commercial single mode

optical fibre link

2013: World’s 1st 1.4Tb/s fibre super-channel



The “Modem”

1970s: 300bps

Today’s hubs can support 300Mbps

2000: 56.6kbps



Forgetting the Wires

“I want high speed broadband, wherever

I am”



The Rise of Data Creation Big Data

Super fast broadband

Smart Cities

Pre

dic

tive a

naly

tics

Cyber security

Network functions Virtualisation Software defined networks

Susta

inabili

ty

Inte

rne

t of T

hin

gs

Consumerisation

Big data

Visual data analytics

Data analytics

Internet television

Social media

Mobile

data

LT

E

4G Inclusion

Supply chain analytics

Supply

ch

ain

auto

mation

Healthcare

Assisted living

Fast optics

Connected Home

BY

OD

Social data analytics

Cloud

Assisted living


Content Anywhere • Access personal content, any

device, anywhere, integrated with

the Cloud

• Multi-room/multi-device clash

management (simultaneous

session control to assure QoE)

Home Networking • Whole home coverage at superfast

broadband speeds

• Home Area Network technologies

for sensors & controls

The Connected Home Smart Home Services

• Energy Management

• Security

• Assisted Living


The Rise of Consumerisation

Shopping

Healthcare

Banking

WORK

HOME


Network Virtualisation

Speeding up deployment and upgrade

Classical Network

Appliance Approach

• Fragmented non-commodity hardware.

• Physical install per appliance per site.

• Hardware development large barrier

to entry for new vendors constraining innovation

& competition.

Network Virtualisation

Approach

Independent Software Vendors

Commodity Ethernet Switches

Commodity x86 Servers

Commodity Storage

Orchestrated,

automatic &

remote install.

Com

pe

titive

&

Inn

ova

tive

Eco

syste

m

BRAS

Firewall DPI

CDN

Tester/QoE monitor

WAN Acceleration

Message Router

Radio Network Controller

Carrier Grade NAT

Session Border Controller

PE Router SGSN/GGSN


Smart Cities


The BT Data Centre

One SLA BT

Networked IT Services

In the BT Datacenter

BT Cloud Services

Security

BT 21C Network


BT Data Centre Solutions

BT

ma

na

ge

d s

olu

tion

s CLOUD COMPUTE

• A hybrid public and private cloud infrastructure service hosted in a secure BT

data centre

• Customers self-serve the infrastructure they need across the network with the

highest levels of choice, flexibility and control.

MANAGED HOSTING

• A fully managed BT service, designing and configuring the hardware and

software infrastructure to deliver your IT services

• On a lease from our secure data centres

• Protected by a comprehensive SLA

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ns

PRIVATE COMPUTE

• You build private cloud services from proven modular templates that can

integrate with your existing systems in a way that’s specific to you.

• You can opt to include a managed service wrap.

CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

• BT creates, deploys & maintains your compute, network, storage & virtualisation

on a single, integrated platform providing a gateway to a private cloud

• You can opt to include a managed service wrap.

CO-LOCATION

• You own, operate, maintain & upgrade your servers with 24/7 access

• BT houses them in secure, cost-efficient data centres

I need to bring my IT together on

one platform

I need somewhere to locate my

infrastructure

I want my own

Cloud Infrastructure

I want to consume my infrastructure and

services from a Global Enterprise cloud

platform and provider

I want to run and manage my

applications but not own or manage

the infrastructure

Network Connectivity


Cloud vs Personal Devices?

Compute power and connectivity have grown enormously in recent years

Costs have fallen dramatically

Demand for data storage, compute and analytics will continue to grow……


We are no longer in an Either/Or world

So the winner is……

….. BOTH Cloud AND personal devices

Thank-you

Ann Matthews Head of Technology Strategy & Innovation, Retail Banking BTplc

cloud today, gone tomorrow?

Technology

process data

secure data centresprotected

laptop computer

peripheralspersonal

large highspeed computer

c network

small portable computer

managed bt service