1 ITM 5.1 Facility Juggling: Managing Load Balancing, Edge Locations, and Networks Shawn Mills

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3 Facility Juggling: Managing Load Balancing, Edge Locations, and Networks Single-facility and national data center operators must learn how to shift loads in order to maintain high performance and keep systems available for end users at all times. best methods to share loads between areas of single data centers maintain availability increase performance maximize efficiencies across complex, geographically disparate data center networks

4 THE CHANGING DATA CENTER LANDSCAPE

5 Increasing demands IoT Media-rich apps, large databases Continued consolidation & construction

6 As we keep building, where do we go?

7 Nationwide data center strategy Balance loads within your data center Move workloads around country Share between geos Add cloud nodes or colocate

8 FINDING & MOVING TO THE EDGE

9 The edge of the internet How can we guarantee acceptable performance? Local traffic, content caching, cost & latency improvements

10 Where are your users? User expectations have changed Identify, stratify, rank, prioritize

11 Where are the partners?

12 The Last Mile End user connection Carrier hotels, high-speed tethers

13 FACILITY & NETWORK STRATEGY

14 Colocation & cloud nodes Gain presence in identified markets Greater density & choice? Great provider

15 Inside networking Intra-colocation or intra-cloud Lower WAN cost, latency Ecosystem peering Network peering

16 Site-to-Site networking Two or more sites DR is common Enterprise-colo Ethernet Private WAN

17 Mesh networks vs. MPLS Centralized vs. distributed Privacy, latency, points of failure

18 CDN, caching, & app delivery Distributed, networked data centers Bring content to the end user

19 3 Key Things You Have Learned During this Session 1.What an edge facility is & why are they increasing in popularity 2.How to identify your next location based on users & applications 3.Different networking methods to guarantee acceptable service levels between geographically diverse sites

20 Questions?

21 Thank you Shawn Mills President & CEO, Green House Data