Dell Networking - Axis Business Solutions

Dell Networking:
Modernize and Transform
Your Network
Paul.Siconolfi
Dell Networking Channel SE
Sept 2014
Dell Networking—Transforming the Enterprise
CY13: ~3x the market*
Market Share Growth*
#3 in 40 GbE switching, outgrew market
#3 in blade switching (10G), fastest growth in the industry
#2 in 10G Base-T switching (Server attach)
Innovation & thought leadership
•  Open Networking & Software Defined - Only IT vendor to provide a choice of
OS & a migration path to SDN
•  Industry leading Platforms for Fabrics & converged racks Solutions
architected for new IT - industry recognition on ALL new data center platforms
announced in 2013 & 2014!
• 
24,000
new customers CY13
Mobile Enterprise—Complete refresh of wired, wireless & chassis switching for
the modern campus
15+
End-to-End Solutions
(Pan Dell & Enterprise)
Market-beating
Growth (3X)
3M+ 10G Ports shipped
1M+ 10G ports in CY13
* Source: Dell’Oro 2014, Q1 & Q2
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Dell Networking customer wins
Marquee customers (NDA only - Global)
Web2.0 &
E-commerce
Services &
Service
Providers
Healthcare &
Life Sciences
Institute for
Human Genetics
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Education
Business
Government
Networks for the data center and campus have
historically been costly and complex
•  Complex, proprietary systems architectures
•  Long innovation cycles driven by vendor
timetables
•  Box-level thinking forcing lock-ins and forklift upgrades
•  Costly engineering overhead and support
contracts
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We
know.
We’ve been in the
networking business
for over 10 years powering
some of the largest cloud
networks in the world
Networking Industry Trends …
1.  Bandwidth needs continue to grow from
data center to desktop to mobile device
2.  Virtualization and new workloads
changing data center traffic patterns and
creating new bottlenecks
3.  Explosion of mobile devices and
multimedia rewriting the laws of campus
networking for good
… creating opportunities
for innovation
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End-to-end blueprints so you can transform
on your terms
VRT
X
WAN
Campus
Branch
Dell Campus
Networking
PowerEdge
Servers
Internet
Active Fabric
Data Center Network
Oracle
Microsoft
SAP
VDI
VMware
Hadoop
Openstack
HPC
Remote
Data Centers
Storage
Network
Public Cloud
Dell
Storage
Data Center
Unique, end-to-end solutions customized for you, to solve entire problems at any scale
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Branch Remote
Office Office
Dell Networking product portfolio
Core Fabric
Switches
Campus & Data Center
Chassis Switches
Z9500
C7004/7008
Blade I/O
M6348
Fabric & Access
Switches
10GbE
10GbE/FC
10/40GbE &
FC
M8024-k
M8428-k
MXL
10GbE
1G
N3000
S55/S60
N2000
Wireless &
BYOD
E600i/E1200i
1G
M6220
S4810 / 20T
Outdoor
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10GbE/FC
S5000
IOA
10/40GbE
S6000
N4000
Controllers &
Access Points
Indoor
Z9000
Instant access
Points w/ builtin controller
Guest
access
and BYOD
W-series ClearPass
Modern campus solutions for a modern enterprise
Unlock the network and empower productivity your way
802.11ac
wireless
1/10GbE
switches
Space-optimized
chassis
ü  Scalable
Up to 30% more
performance*
ü  Simple
Wireless
Access
Chassis
Ultimate
mobility
Ultimate
efficiency
Ultimate
versatility
Wireless access utilizing
802.11ac gigabit wireless
for unprecedented
performance and scale
Energy-efficient 1/10GbE
switches designed for
modernizing and scaling
campus networks
W-Series
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N-Series
C-Series
Fully redundant, fully
modular 1/10/40GbE
switching system for high
availability and resiliency
*compared to Cisco Catalyst 6500-E series
** www.miercom.com/2013//05/dell-networking-7000-8100-switch-series/
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Familiar tools and
practices for easier
deployment &
management
ü  Flexible
TCO lowered by
up to 60%**
Redefining campus LAN economics
For a 3072 port PoE+ Campus design, Dell can deliver 1.5x more headroom,
at 1/3 the power, for 1/2 the price, versus Cisco.
Cisco Catalyst
Dell N-Series
2 x Catalyst 4500X
2 x Dell Networking N4032
10GbE
10GbE
N3048P
Edge
3750X-48PF-S
Edge
1.5x
1/3
more headroom
the power
17.9 T 11.8 T 1/2
the price
20. KW $976 K 13.3 KW $438 K Dell Cisco 9
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Dell Cisco Dell Cisco Award-winning platforms across the data center
Automation, SDN & simplified management combine with
highest performance
Z-Series Core and Fabric
S-Series Fabric &
ToR
M-Series Blades
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• 
• 
First 10/40GbE switch for
blade environments
• 
Local switching for highest
performance
Support for Dell Active
Fabric™ solutions and
today’s east-west traffic
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• 
Purpose-built fabric
switches for modern data
centers
Integrated automation and
management built in
Unique hybrid OpenFlow
agent for SDN
environments
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• 
1/10/40GbE & 8G FC
options
Designed for virtualized &
cloud environments
Open Networking enabled
on select models
• 
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Active Fabric solutions at any scale
Hyper Scale Fabric
Fabric scale
Macro Scale Fabric
Micro Scale Fabric
Massively scalable with 40GbE
interconnects inside fabric
Dense, energy-efficient, low
latency solutions
Pay-As-You-Go model for
small-scale Data Centers
Server/VM density
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Active Fabric Manager Overview
Software application for automating data center fabric tasks
Single pane of glass
•  One console to Design,
Build and Monitor a
fabric
•  Manage multiple fabrics
from a single console
Automated
provisioning and
configuration
•  Leverages embedded
automation capabilities
•  1/8 time for deploying a
fabric
1. Design
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Design templates for
complex fabric
topologies
Reduce fabric deployment time
by up to 86%
•  Layer 3 Fabrics –
Distributed Core
•  Layer 2 Fabrics – VLT
(Virtual Link Trunking)
Holistic packaging
•  OVF compliant holistic
virtual appliance
•  Built-in documentation
2. Build
3. Run
Network
Virtualization
Product of the
Year Award
Redefining fabric economics
For a 1536 10GbE port Data Center design, Dell Z9500 consumes 1/3 the power, is
2/3 the price and requires 1/7 the footprint compared to Cisco Nexus 7010.
Cisco Nexus 7010
Dell Z9500
2 x Nexus7010
2 x Z9500 - spine
40GbE
Nexus 5596UP ToR
S4810 ToR/Leaf
40GbE
…32
…32
…32 Racks
…32 Racks
(W/10GbE)
20
10
0
16
1/3
($K)
$600.0
$500.0
$486.0
2/3
the price
(RU)
50
40
the power
$400.0
4.7
$300.0
30
$200.0
20
$100.0
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Nexus 7010
Z9500
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$300.0
$0.0
Nexus 7010
Z9500
42
1/7
the footprint
6
0
Nexus 7010
Z9500
Dell MXL 10/40GbE blade switch
High performance full-featured 1/10/40GbE blade switch
Designed for end-to-end
converged networks
•  10/40GbE switching in the chassis
–  32 x 10Gb internal ports
–  Up to 6 x 40Gb external ports/uplinks
–  FlexIO modules provides flexible “pay as you grow”
capability:
–  1/10G Base-T
–  SFP+
–  2/4/8 Fibre Channel
•  Integrated automation, scripting and
programmatic management
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30-40%
CapEx
savings
Choice of SDN approach delivers a comprehensive SDN Strategy
Open Standards, Open Protocols, Open Source
Hypervisor-based
Overlay
Solutions
• 
NVO with VMware & Microsoft
Open Stack - SDN and NFV
Open Networking
Hypervisor-agnostic solutions for
network virtualization and
network function virtualization
Controller-based
•  OpenFlow solutions based on
open standards and open source
innovations
Networking
Infrastructure
Software-Defined
Networks
Open Automation
TCL, Perl & Python scripting
REST-API, XML, OMI, Puppet, Chef
Programmable
Solutions
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Programmatic management
Open SDN Controllers
Open Standards, Open Source
Open Protocol: Open Flow
Controller
Solutions
•  Legacy programmability using
standard management interfaces
and scripting languages
Dell—Fueling the Open Networking revolution
The Future of Networking
Traditional Networking
Proprietary architectures
& mgmt tools
Standard orchestration
and automation tools
Optional SDN / NVO
controllers
Hundreds of protocols
Any OS
Proprietary OS
(e.g. Cisco IOS, Jun OS)
Open standard hardware
Proprietary ASICs
Merchant silicon
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Valuable Dell networking social media links
•  Networking Resource Page
•  Direct2Dell Networking Blogs
•  Dell Networking Chatter Group
•  @DellNetworking on Twitter
•  YouTube Networking playlist
•  Dell Networking Users Group on LinkedIn
•  TechPageOne Data Center Group
•  Questions? Contact Rod Mercado, [email protected]
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Modernize and transform your network, your way
Protect your
investments
•  Open standards-based platforms designed for interoperability allow you to add
new capabilities as needed without costly rip-and-replace
Drive new
economics
•  Innovative data center and campus solutions are optimized for modern
workloads and applications
Increase
flexibility
• 
Scale up, down
and out
•  High-performance, economical 10/40GE fabrics provide greater agility as you
respond to changing enterprise dynamics
Simplify
management
•  Open automation tools and inherent support for virtualization help you achieve
results quickly and easily
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“Pay as you grow” foundation based on modular, stackable, attractively priced
interoperable switches gives you freedom to evolve at your own pace
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Thank You
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Phone: 866-735-2532
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