Digtial IP-Appliance Design Process

The Problems with Custom, One-Time Engineered Cloud Data Centers

The industry landscape, dominated by the competing interests of locked OEM giants, means that standardization across open supply chains and its inherent benefits can never be realised over time. Complex, custom engineered outcomes are the result. These solutions are brittle – i.e. not flexible or adaptable enough to accommodate change or extension over longer product lifespans that are relevant now.

In the absence of movement towards open supply chain standards, service providers are at risk of continuing to follow traditional OEM vendors down disparate paths of ad-hock, one-time engineered investments costing significantly more over time than an open and coordinated approach.

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Hardware-Lock-Ins - by proprietary OEM vendors meaning at a time of an HDD SSD or NVMe upgrade you are locked in and have nowhere else to go. This can be a problem if a contractual problem has occured, and the vendor is wanting to put pressure on you.
Software-Lock-Ins - by proprietary OEM vendors means that its impossible to repurpose the appliance be it an expensive server or switch (and all associated sub-components/interface modules).
Non-interoperability - once infrastructure sub-systems are locked down by OEM vendors they become non-interoperable by design. Perhaps even a version upgrade across the rest of your network fabric might become a problem.
Complexity - data center projects are already inherently complex. Proprietary lock-ins add a completely unnecessary layer to this complexity. Even when all sub-systems are operational, the one-time engineering of the whole solution may mean that it is never actually optimized. Retaining appropriately trained and skilled staff needed for optimization and operation of the various 3rd party sub-systems across the entire life-cycle is also very difficult to do.
Project: Risk Time & Cost - The IP-Appliance Design Process eliminates or at least mitigates all of the above problems & challenges in cloud data centers. The result of this process is a standardized and tested solution stack that does contain locked down elements meaning that it can be evolved further and freely as your needs dictate over time.

Digital IP Appliance Design Process

Hyperscalers has developed a Digital- IP-Appliance Design Process and associated Appliance Optimizer Utility which can enable the productization of IT-appliances for Digital-IP owners needing to hyperscale their services very quickly, reliably and at a fraction of traditional costs.

Appliance Optimizer Utility AOU

The Appliance Optimizer Utility (AOU) automates the discovery of appliance bottlenecks by pinging all layers in the proposed solution stack. A live dashboard unifies all key performance characteristics to provide a head to head performance assessment between all data-path layers in the appliance, as well as a comparison between holistic appliances.