Interop 2008: Keynote Jayshree V. Ullal

May 2nd, 2008 by David Link

Jayshree V. Ullal is the Senior Vice President, Data Center for the Switching and Services Group at Cisco.

Jayshree manages Cisco Catalyst and new Nexus Data Center Switching Series. She was the keynote speaker at Interop on Tuesday, and I enjoyed hearing her discuss Cisco’s strategies and customer insights. Her team also won “Best at Interop” for the Nexus Data Center.

A few key points:

• SOA and SAAS are putting new pressure on the datacenter infrastructure.
• Transformations in the industry and enterprise with the Network as a Platform Driving Productivity.
• Changes in the Networking industry from a position of where we have come and are going in the future.
• From 1985 – 1995: The key initiatives were to connect separate network protocols so they could interoperate.
• From 1995 – 2005: Huge push to around integrated communications – voice, video and data with integrating the user experience – as an example, unified messaging & CRM solutions.
• From 2005 – 2015: Going forward collaboration users immediately share the experience of any app, any content from any location.

This is what is making the network drive productivity across the app, with IP standardized as the common transport. Mobility equals the freedom of all of these axis technologies…it is the face of the future.

Jayshree’s 2010 View

• Cut down the horizontal barriers and create horizontal network infrastructure.
• Provide the overall mobile device management across the enterprise.
• She talked about Cisco’s perspective on the evolution of the Datacenter.
  • Datacenter 1.0 – Centralized Mainframe – This is when Cisco developed multi-protocol routers… This was all about processing.
  • Datacenter 2.0 Client- Server and Distributed Computing – this is where switching came in.
  • Data Center 3.0 Service Oriented and Web 2.0 Virtualized. The combination and best of these two … centralized and re-distribution of these apps for greater redundancy. The significant economics of processing, space and power. Virtualization is bringing the network together to orchestrate across everything in the DataCenter.

One of her interesting comments was regarding the User Experience. I felt like she was taking a page out of ScienceLogic’s marketing literature with her statements about the immaturity of IT Operations Management tools.

If you do DataCenter 3.0 without the right tools you will fail. If you build the right tools, eliminate human error, but create agile provisioning!

Her example was two large financial companies which Cisco created case studies.

• The first IT shop was working in technology skill Silos based IT Operations Management and took an average of 4.5 hors to restore from critical outages.
• The second was an Integrated IT Operations Management shop which averaged 10-15 minutes to resolve critical outages. In the future more management instrumentation will be done via XML.

Some interesting statistics:

• How long it takes Nexus 7000 to…

1. Copy the entire wikipedia data base? 10 miliseconds
2. Download the entire Netflix video library in 384 seconds… which is 90,000 movies

• Today Video = 60% of internet traffic right now.
• Telepresence traffic in 2010 will be larger than internet traffic of 2000
• 1 hour of telepresence is = to 1 year of email.

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