The CIOs Finest Hour @ Structure 2011 Dave Hitz, Founder & EVP NetApp
Notes from David Cahill
IT Delivery Models
- 3 kinds of IT deployment 1) silo’ed IT 2) internal cloud based on vmware 2) external cloud
- Difference between internal and external clouds 1) scale 2) security
- Can solve a lot of security issues with policy and then detection
- Confusion created by business and technical jargon, people doing cloud already, just not fully acknowledging it and getting heads around it
- Innovators Dilemma theory at its core is that tech gets better faster than user requirements can increase
- Look at the low end stuff that is barely good enough for end users
- Big enterprise guys down the road will be the ones doing weird little consumer stuff right now
- Salesforce.com started as low end CRM
- Not obvious that cloud service providers can do IT cheaper
- Have to do cloud services while making money and customers saving money…this math is tough to make work, tougher than people think
- “there will be some big smoking craters”...referring to some of those that are building clouds
- Cloud storage
- Architecturally very tricky
- Hard to separate servers from storage, much easier to separate users from server
- Favorite cloud storage apps are Dropbox and Evernote
- Most cloud storage is heavy duty app with cloud storage behind it “and we sell to those people”
- S3 storage is cheap if you access it from amazon compute, if you send it out over the internet it is expensive
- Flash
- Flash is awesome everywhere
- Flash in front of disks makes disks so much faster you can reduce HDD quality and reduce price of system
- Flash as a service doesn’t make sense
- Heavy duty compute make disk drives look slow, to people however this latency is ok
- Need flash for heavy CPU crunching that is processing data and sending it to users
- Need flash here to make apps look better
- NetApp and flash…”we ship a lot of flash”, best is when shipped as cache, also support SSDs for super high performance apps, smaller # of people do this, for normal users flash as a cache makes more sense