As data centers continue to evolve in order to support cloud computing, big data analytics and the proliferation of mobile devices, enterprises are evaluating the infrastructure of hyperscale data centers to leverage components which will allow them to scale more efficiently.
Application areas and benefits include:
Cloud Computing
Sample applications: VMware, Red Hat KVM, Citrix Xen, Microsoft, Amazon EC2, Google App Engine
Benefits: Improved service level agreements through deterministic performance, efficient clustering allowing for elastic/scale out computing and higher performance from virtualized servers through its support of SR-IOV
Data Storage
Sample applications: Microsoft SMB Direct, Lustre
Benefits: Storage protocols over RDMA delivers higher throughput
Data Warehousing
Sample applications: Oracle RAC, IBM DB2 PureScale, Microsoft SQL
Benefits: Significantly higher job operations per second, linear scaling with cluster size, maintains table scan time in the face of exponential growth in database table sizes
Financial services
Sample applications: Low latency messaging applications include Tibco, Wombat/NYSE, IBM WebSphere MQ, Red Hat MRG, 29West/Informatica
Benefits: High performance, scalable
Web 2.0
Sample applications: Hadoop, Memcached, Eucalyptus, Cassandra
Benefits: Minimize response time, maximize jobs per second, enable to build highly scalable infrastructure