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This graphic was shown yesterday during Cisco's UCS announcement. I couldn't figure out what they were trying to say here. Anyone know why over provisioning would be to the right on a business agility axis? It might make sense if it meant to imply that thin provisioning was an element of Unified Computing in the upper right sector, but I haven't seen anything about Thin Provisioning's role.
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I think they are talking about servers here.
If you are not using virtualization, then you will typically need an pool of extra servers which you can use for new requirements on demand. And that's over provisioning in this context.
it's on the right because you can use this pool whenever needed by the business.
Posted by: SG | March 17, 2009 at 06:23 PM
You've spent too little time working with marketing, I can see that!
Remember that this is a compute & network play from Cisco, where "over provisioning" (read -- big fat pipes and and big happy servers) could be considered a route to agility. They're trying to poke HP and IBM in the eye with that one.
"Thin provisioning" currently means storage. It's there in the slide, just that it's called "server virtualisation".
Don't worry, NetApp will help them catch up!
Posted by: Alex McDonald | March 18, 2009 at 03:51 AM
Looks to be like they're saying that non-cost reduced efforts to achieve business agility can result in over-engineering the solution - i.e., over-provisioning.
Sadly, I admit to being fluent in Marketese.
Posted by: Pete Steege | March 18, 2009 at 05:44 AM
But I thought storage was at the center of the universe! Thanks folks - I get it now. Its a good thing Cisco didn't try to start a storage business because that slide would have been wrong.
Posted by: marc farley | March 18, 2009 at 08:11 AM
Only if you ignore Unified Storage. http://blogs.netapp.com/shadeofblue/2009/03/ciscos-ucs-netapps-uss.html
Posted by: Alex McDonald | March 18, 2009 at 09:31 AM