{"id":10394,"date":"2015-09-29T17:20:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=10394"},"modified":"2024-08-27T07:13:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T04:13:28","slug":"data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Centers, Singapore, and Cloud Foundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Singapore recently, where it is very warm and very humid all the time. Located just 85 miles north of the equator, the dynamic nation-state is a top-tier global financial center and consequently, a dynamic location for numerous data centers\u2014which generate a lot of heat on their own. Singapore\u2019s perpetually sultry climate is hardly ideal for them.<\/p>\n<p>But Singapore\u2019s nice location in the heart of Southeast Asia and a reputation for corruption-free, efficient business practices built up over its 50-year history as an independent nation make it among the more dynamic centers for technology usage in the world.<\/p>\n<p>My visit to Singapore was as co-chair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hugedomains.com\/domain_profile.cfm?d=stackingit&#038;e=com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StackingIT<\/a>, a new event that\u2019s part of the larger DCD Converged series. \u201cConverged\u201d focuses on data centers at several events worldwide every year, and StackingIT is bringing the vast, complex world of open software to the traditional world of data centers. It feels a little bit like a shotgun wedding.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stackingIT.jpg\" alt=\"stackingIT\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10416\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry\/#Tradition\" >Tradition!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry\/#More_diverse_than_one_may_think\" >More diverse than one may think<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry\/#Vapor_IO\" >Vapor IO<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry\/#The_Yottabyte_and_Cloud_Foundry\" >The Yottabyte and Cloud Foundry<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry\/#Commodization\" >Commodization?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry\/#Why_such_growth\" >Why such growth?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/data-centers-singapore-and-cloud-foundry\/#The_future_is_here\" >The future is here!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tradition\"><\/span>Tradition!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Data center operators are generally speaking a traditional lot. They live in a real world characterized by real estate, brick-and-mortar, heavy metal IT, air-conditioning, and the electricity that powers their world. Change is measured in increments, even if success is significant. A cent or two price-per-kWh here and there can make a difference of millions of dollars in annual operating costs to them. An increase in cooling efficiency of a percent or two can reap similar savings.<\/p>\n<p>The open software world, by contrast, is a world of abstraction. Success with platforms such as Cloud Foundry in this world can lead to magnitudes of difference in the length of development cycles, and migration to entire new \u201ccultures.\u201d Whether you\u2019re discussing PaaS, IaaS, frameworks, languages, virtualization, or containers and microservices, this world is one of quantum change and transformation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_diverse_than_one_may_think\"><\/span>More diverse than one may think<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The data center world is hardly monolithic, to borrow a contemporary term from the software world. Operations span a continuum of size, from a few racks to many tens of thousands of computers and related hardware. Some are on-premises, others co-located. They are increasingly virtualized, sometimes containerized, sometimes integrated to some degree with public-cloud services. Bare metal is the way to go for some.<\/p>\n<p>But opinion among data center operators can appear to be monolithic when it comes to change. Their world is often focused on PUE (power usage effectiveness), expressed as a ratio of the amount of total power consumed by a data center divided by the amount of power consumed by the IT hardware. A theoretical, ideal PUE would be 1.0\u2014no overhead whatsoever for lighting, cooling, or anything else. The most effective data centers today run PUEs of around 1.7.<\/p>\n<p>But PUE doesn\u2019t account for climate. So new data centers being built by the Chinese government in Harbin, for example, are going to require a lot less cooling than those in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>That said, there are plenty of data centers in hot climate all over the world, as proximity to demand is a much larger factor than pesky heat and humidity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Vapor_IO\"><\/span>Vapor IO<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Into this world comes some radical thinking by a company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vapor.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vapor.io<\/a>. CEO Cole Crawford was a co-founder of OpenStack. Chief Architect Steven White was Director of Hardware Engineering at Nebula.<\/p>\n<p>These guys talk about the disaggregated data center, about hyper-collapsed and \u201ctruly\u201d data-defined data centers. They take an open approach to hardware, designing chamber-style systems that look nothing like traditional racks and which are designed to bring vast efficiencies in cost and energy usage.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford says Vapor technology enables data centers to be built for around $4 million per megawatt usage versus $10 million (and sometimes upward) for conventional technology. He is not a fan of the PUE metric, preferring to focus instead on how much sheer compute power can be squeezed out of a given amount of space.<\/p>\n<p>This thinking comes amidst a present-day world in which the amount of data being created in the world has already reached 4 zettabytes more or less and is doubling every three years. A zettabyte is 1 million petabytes\u2014at present growth rates, the amount of data will reach 1,000 zettabytes (aka a yottabyte) within 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Data centers already consume 2 to 3 percent of the world\u2019s electrical grid, higher in localities with a concentration of them, such as Singapore. Imagining the amount of data to be handled increasing by 2^8 (or 256X) in 24 years brings into relief the enormous challenge facing the electrical grid unless vast new efficiencies in technology are achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing the dimensions of this problem, the Vapor team has responded with its revolutionary design. It has already been put to use in test projects.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a parallel revolution must occur with software. For its part, Vapor IO announced its Open Data Center Runtime Environment (DCRE) earlier this year. This is the first accepted contribution to the Open Compute Foundation, a collaborative effort that aims to leverage best practices and efficiencies gleaned by Facebook over the course of its massive data center operations.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vapor-dcre.png\" alt=\"vapor dcre\" width=\"690\" height=\"439\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10418\" \/><small>Image credit: Vapor IO<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They also announced Vapor Core, providing an intelligence layer on top of Open DCRE. \u201cVapor can now act as a gateway within the data center management network, mapping inbound connections to server serial consoles and enables further development of the data center,\u201d according to the company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Yottabyte_and_Cloud_Foundry\"><\/span>The Yottabyte and Cloud Foundry<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Open technology seems to provide the path for the technology industry as a whole to rise to the challenge of the coming Yottabyte Age. Community-based efforts are not flawless, and execution is always significantly more difficult than theory. But a new age of vendor lock-in would not be the first choice of IT buyers and users, whether at the personal or enterprise level.<\/p>\n<p>This argument, in my mind, always circles back to PaaS and Cloud Foundry, which I see as the essential ingredient and catalyst in deploying modern, cloud applications and services. The emergence of containers and microservices only accentuates the need for a platform that can manage them.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly CF is already being used in a serious fashion by some of the world\u2019s greatest companies, including such technology purveyors as Cisco, GE Software, Lockheed Martin, Philips, Orange, and Huawei. It is now intrinsic to the cloud strategies of IBM and HP. It is leaping its traditional private cloud bounds to reach the world of public cloud as well. In its catholocity, it is leveling the playing field after a fashion for buyers. You can no longer get fired for not just buying IBM.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Commodization\"><\/span>Commodization?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Data center operators whom I met in Singapore\u2014and at an earlier StackingIT event in San Francisco\u2014often advocate for a \u201csingle SKU,\u201d i.e., a more commoditized approach to the hardware they need to purchase in increasing amounts.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re correct in not wanting to get locked into various proprietary and expensive ways of building a better data center. But it\u2019s unclear to me how much understanding exists about the need to transform the concept of a data center itself.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of the software-defined data center (SDDC) has received some traction in recent years, as virtualized deployment of widely distributed apps and services has become more common. Can you say \u201cHadoop?\u201d But issues of security in general, compliance in particular, and data sovereignty quickly emerge to slow conversations about remaking the data center world into a big, distributed piece of software.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_such_growth\"><\/span>Why such growth?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s worth examining why today\u2019s already massive data flows are expected to continue to grow so sharply. Video and mobility are the two key protagonists today, worldwide. In fact, many developing countries (such as those in Southeast Asia) are experiencing a shocking rise in data creation and consumption, as the local IT infrastructures make a leap from a thinly provisioned PC world to a massive use of smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>But we ain\u2019t seen nothing yet. The Internet of Things (IoT) will be the true heavy in this scene. I\u2019m reminded again of automobiles versus chewing gum. Both businesses are wildly successful\u2014certainly the Wrigley family had no reason to be shy around the Ford family a generation ago.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the chewing gum (i.e., small sensors with small signals) is starting to become more popular. Within a generation, the many tens of billions of sensors deployed in a global IoT will be transmitting as much data, it not more, than the larger personal and business systems.<\/p>\n<p>Data center design will have to evolve as a result. The concept of data centers on the edge will become valid\u2014and the size of these data centers will be reduced drastically. Imagine a data center you can hold in your hand, for example, housed unobtrusively along a smart traffic grid, locally processing terabytes of data, while sending back the small percentage of this data that needs to be analyzed and stored back to a regional or central facility.<\/p>\n<p>How much electricity-per-terabyte-processed (or some similar measurement) will they need? Can solar panels do the trick for them? And what about all those sensors? How do we power them?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_future_is_here\"><\/span>The future is here!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Ruminating about the data centers of the future is more than an academic exercise. The world\u2019s data is increasing quickly at this very moment, mobile devices continue to proliferate, and the IoT is becoming real in Smart Grids and Cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Such rumination must include discussion of the software that will enable, influence, and ultimately manage all these data centers. The management team at Vapor certainly endorses this view. And I heard from several executives and developers in Singapore and San Francisco who are focused intensely on the software prerogative. But, as stated at the top of this article, I also sense a shotgun wedding of sorts. StackingIT is bringing together the two giant worlds of software development and data center operations.<\/p>\n<p>As with the ongoing DevOps discussions within the software world, there is one side that is all in and another that remains to be convinced. Operations professionals are that way. They do, after all, live in the real world. Their conundrum is that their real world is changing, quickly, dramatically, and inevitably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Singapore recently, where it is very warm and very humid all the time. Located just 85 miles north of the equator, the dynamic nation-state is a top-tier global financial center and consequently, a dynamic location for numerous data centers\u2014which generate a lot of heat on their own. 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