Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 08 | Page 62

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud Reinventing the data centre for the cloud T he cloud-mobile era is transforming the data centre. For decades, monolithic applications ran on servers. With the advent of the web, applications were broken into three tiers—the front end, the data tier and the business logic. As applications needed to serve more users and more data, IT built a better mousetrap— faster servers, bigger storage and faster networks, writes Samer Itani, Solutions Architect, UAE at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. The build-a-bigger-mousetrap strategy works for corporate data centres that serve tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of users. However, cloud services serve millions of users—and maybe even billions. Disaggregation of compute It’s time to reinvent the data centre for the cloud. An emerging concept is the disaggregation of compute, which will enable cloud services at scale. In this model, applications and server components are broken down so they can be distributed across the data centre or even multiple data centres. As processing is distributed, pools of data centre resources can be used instantaneously as workloads change. 62 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com