Jonathan Donaldson, Intel Cloud Platform Group, at VMworld 2014 with John Furrier and Stu Miniman
@theCUBE
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Two years after the International Data Corporation coined the term “third platform”, we’re now starting to see this vision emerge through things like EMC Corp.’s Elastic Cloud Storage. We know that the third platform is all about mobility, social networking, Cloud and Big Data, but less talked about is the hardware behind it all. In an interview for theCUBE at VMworld, EMC Senior Director of Global Evangelism Denis Vilfort, discussed the differences in hardware between the second and third platforms.
In the second platform, there is a front-end web tier and a back-end app tier. One web tier has stacks of, what Vilfort refers to as, “pizza boxes” that contain one core and one CPU each, and the only way to get scale is to buy more boxes. The app tier is where the big database server is housed. These two tiers essentially create a funnel effect, in which everything comes to the front-end and then goes to the back-end where data gets monetized.
The third platform is basically that whole process mashed together and then scaled horizontally. Vilfort said that this is possible thanks to folks, like Intel Corporation, who offer single sockets with 12 cores of CPU. Systems that scale on a horizontal compute can now be built, with a data retention layer underneath it.
There are two pieces to the puzzle in the third platform. The first piece stores and protects data. The second piece allows you to analyze that data, create value from it, then store it again. Vilfort described this as being kind of like snakes and ladders, where there’s transformative compute engines, retention layers underneath and then it’s all networked together. “It’s actually a horizontal, scalable sea of compute, sea of data retention, and that means that we have to write the software differently to pull that off,”
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Jonathan Donaldson, Intel Cloud Platform Group, at VMworld 2014 with John Furrier and Stu Miniman
@theCUBE
#vmworld2014
Two years after the International Data Corporation coined the term “third platform”, we’re now starting to see this vision emerge through things like EMC Corp.’s Elastic Cloud Storage. We know that the third platform is all about mobility, social networking, Cloud and Big Data, but less talked about is the hardware behind it all. In an interview for theCUBE at VMworld, EMC Senior Director of Global Evangelism Denis Vilfort, discussed the differences in hardware between the second and third platforms.
In the second platform, there is a front-end web tier and a back-end app tier. One web tier has stacks of, what Vilfort refers to as, “pizza boxes” that contain one core and one CPU each, and the only way to get scale is to buy more boxes. The app tier is where the big database server is housed. These two tiers essentially create a funnel effect, in which everything comes to the front-end and then goes to the back-end where data gets monetized.
The third platform is basically that whole process mashed together and then scaled horizontally. Vilfort said that this is possible thanks to folks, like Intel Corporation, who offer single sockets with 12 cores of CPU. Systems that scale on a horizontal compute can now be built, with a data retention layer underneath it.
There are two pieces to the puzzle in the third platform. The first piece stores and protects data. The second piece allows you to analyze that data, create value from it, then store it again. Vilfort described this as being kind of like snakes and ladders, where there’s transformative compute engines, retention layers underneath and then it’s all networked together. “It’s actually a horizontal, scalable sea of compute, sea of data retention, and that means that we have to write the software differently to pull that off,”
