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.
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