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Chapter 3: What Is an Enterprise Cloud?

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Even many of today’s array‐based scale‐out storage methodologies begin to crumble under their own weight as they
grow. Much of this has to with data locality, which I discuss
in Chapter 1. The bigger these constructs grow, the more data
has to traverse a storage networking fabric. Eventually, as
data gets farther and farther from the CPU and RAM, performance problems ensue.
A reliable datacenter infrastructure combines the ability to
leverage scale‐out storage while maintaining data locality.
Storage continues to be the resource that holds back progress
on the datacenter journey.

Defining Enterprise Cloud
Key Ingredients
Here’s a high level look at how to define the enterprise cloud:
The enterprise cloud delivers the frictionless agility, simplicity, and fractional consumption of public cloud services while
providing control over performance, location of data and services, and choice of platforms.
Five key components comprise the enterprise cloud:
✓ Full‐stack infrastructure and platform services that
deliver turnkey infrastructure for any app at any scale,
anywhere, deliv ered through a combination of on‐premises
datacenters and public cloud services
✓ Zero‐click operations and machine intelligence that
deliver operational simplicity through automation
✓ Instant elastic consumption that allows businesses to buy
and use only the IT resources they need, only when they
need them, spinning resources up and down on demand,
and eliminating overprovisioning and prediction risk
✓ Integrated security and control that covers the entire
infrastructure stack, leverages automation, and simplifies
maintenance of the security baseline using automation
✓ Application‐centric mobility that lets businesses run
applications anywhere with no infrastructure lock‐in

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