On-demand Production Infrastructure

Just-in-Time IT Infrastructure Presented by: Shane Guthrie, Equinix

Innovation, Office of the CTO

Key Characteristics of JIT Provisioning

• Allocation of resources as needed to accomplish a production task.

• Utilizing commodity resource pools to fulfill production demands.

• Pre-defined methods of integrating different resource pools together to appear as one production architecture.

• Programmatically triggered upon demand or policy.

Why JIT Provisioning • The economics of commodity resource pools are

too disruptive to ignore. • M&E Productions need to effectively leverage

massive Service Provider Capital Investments across compute, storage, and network.

• Production costs and risks should be spread amongst production participants as resources are consumed.

Reduce Costs: Abstract, then Commoditize

• Server

• Storage

• Circuit

Physical

• Virtual Server

• Volumes on NAS and SAN

• Virtual Circuits

Virtual

• PaaS

• NFV

• SaaS

• IaaS

• Object Stores

Abstracted

OS Console Frameworks API

Efficiency Pressure

Cloud Disruption: Abstract, then Commoditize

• The Economics of Virtualization are inescapable – cost management and flexibility requirements demand more granular controls.

• The development of flexible Provisioning Frameworks have spawned a new age of multi-vendor, heterogeneous infrastructure to expose these controls.

• Management systems have become increasingly more complex and capable, allowing for policy application across heterogeneous infrastructure by using these frameworks.

• The search for new, abstracted Control Points has become critical to these new Management Systems.

Nascent: Network (SDN and

NFV)

Mature: Storage (SaaS)

Mature: Compute

(IaaS)

Mature: Apps (PaaS)

Leverage Wireline Infrastructure Investment

$25

$26

$27

$28

$29

2010 2011 2012 2013

US Wireline Capex 2010-2013

Spend in Blns

Source: US Telecom

The wireline portion of the $1.3 trillion in broadband provider capital expenditures from 1996 through 2013 was 52 percent. The wireline segment continued to contribute a significant portion of industry capital in 2013, 37 percent of total spend.

Network Commoditization = Opportunity

• Metro Ethernet capacity glut will require new provisioning strategies to achieve scale

• Excess long-haul capacity as CSP Intra-regional replication reduces utilization

• SDN Automation is a must to reduce opex and attract Provisioning Engine Integration

Today: Compute and Storage Infrastructure Provisioning Abstracted

• Manual Processes and Extended Timeframes required to provision core network and some CSP infrastructure.

• Workflow Integration to Management Frameworks beginning, but missing network resource allocation capabilities.

• Workflow systems operate on statically defined topologies.

Next: Full Infrastructure Provisioning Abstraction

• Manual Processes and Extended Timeframes eliminated for Orchestrated API calls.

• Workflow Integration to Frameworks allows users to provision ALL resource pool infrastructure – Servers, Storage, Network.

• Workflow systems operate dynamically to infrastructure.

Abstraction drives Evolution of Tools • User View: Workflow tools now become mechanism to provision infrastructure

– Example Tools: 5th Kind, Front Porch Digital

• Administrator View: Resource Management and Workload Migration tools – Example Provisioning Engines: Migration Accelerator for Azure, Docker for GCP, Cisco

Intercloud, AWS Console VM Import/Export, VMware vRealize, Right Scale, HotLink, OpenStack

• PaaS Frameworks allow for Applications to be readily provisioned in either private or public infrastructure as needed: – Example PaaS Frameworks: Azure Cloud Services, Google App Engines, AWS Elastic Beanstalk,

Apprenda, AppFog,

• Network Provisioning becomes virtualized and programmatically provisioned: – Examples of SDN Frameworks: Equinix EPN, Cisco Intercloud

Abstracted tools need Exchange Points

• Need a centralized, neutral provisioning point to apply policy and signal topology changes.

• This ‘Exchange Point’ becomes a ‘provisioning hub’ for all physical and virtual infrastructure in the topology.

• This point needs to access all resource pools via high-speed, low latency interconnection methods.

Public Cloud Private Cloud

Workflow

Production Partners

Remote Production

Partners

On-Location Media On-Ramp

SDN Control

Central Storage and Policy

Workflow-Driven Infrastructure Pre-Production

Bid PackageAward Shot to

VFX House

Award Trailer to Vendor

Production

Post-Production

RAW

Capture

Meta Data

Video Capture Dirty Pass

Validate

Color / Meta DataClean Pass

Trailer Cut

Ingested

VFX Shots

Status Updates

Compare Cut to VFX Status to

catch any cost impacts

Editorial

VFX HouseTrailer House

Media & Entertainment Exchange

On Demand Software Defined Networking

In Summary • Leverage Commodity Resource Pools – let someone

else do long-term capacity planning • Provision via abstracted interfaces to allow for vendor

diversity • Select providers based upon neutrality and pre-

integration to tools and frameworks • Exchange providers should provide programmatic, low

latency, high bandwidth access to majority of required resource pools