Ericsson's hyperscale data centre strategy to support multi-cloud adoption

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Ericsson forecasts 28 billion connected devices by 2021.

Ericsson believes that 5G will bring about more connections than ever and drive digital transformation so long as the infrastructure evolves to support it. "The future is about managing data and (we need) infrastructure that can do that in a secure, reliable way," said Geoff Hollingworth, Networked Society Evangelist, Ericsson. "We're working very closely with Intel to understand what that infrastructure needs to look like in terms of economy, performance, and industrialisation."

There are a handful of companies which have implemented such infrastructure, which is based on the cloud and provides a new cost structure and efficiency model, he said, listing Amazon, Facebook, Baidu, Tencent, and Google among them. "All of those companies started their infrastructure-buying with traditional infrastructure but when they went though the sound barrier with scale, they stopped, and built systems for a new world. They just didn't share with the rest of the other companies," Hollingworth explained.

Ericsson aims to bring the 'hyperscale' infrastructure that has helped make the pioneers of digital transformation successful to its traditional service provider customers, said Hollingworth, moving into a new market category in the process. "Everybody in this transition is becoming a service provider. That's why this technology is equally applicable to others," he said, pointing out that hyperscale data centres provide significant advantages over traditional IT.

Ericsson predicts that traditional IT will be obsolete when hyperscale data centre infrastructure offers much better benefits.

The hyperscale concept relies on Intel Rack Scale Design, which:

• Delivers increased performance through pooled resources such as networking, compute, and storage
• Enables hyperscale agility via flexible, modular architecture 
• Improves data centre operations with analytics-based telemetry

Ericsson's take on Intel Rack Scale architecture is the Hyperscale Datacenter System (HDS) 8000, which will provide visibility of cloud workloads for management, enable secure 'cages' of an enterprises's own infrastructure in the cloud, managed through software-defined means, so that workloads are disassociated from the physical hardware.  dramatically improve efficiency, utilisation, automation and total cost of ownership.

In Asia, Hollingworth shared that Telstra, Far Eastone, and SK Telecom are all investing in digital transformation. SK Telecom is combining IT and telecommunications infrastructure onto one platform, and is running a proof of concept on the HDS 8000 around network slicing, which results in the provision of different network performance for different end users.

Far Eastone is trying to understand if there are new market segments it can pursue with low-latency communications, with one possibility being the gaming industry, he said.

Interested?

Watch the video introducing the Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000

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