Presentation at 2008 Internet World UK

1. Web 2.0 Scale
Bob Sokol
Chief Technologist, Web Industry Practice
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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2. Agenda
• Designing a sustainable, scalable, future proof, and most
importantly relevant, Web 2.0 company from the ground up
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3. Agenda (Revised)
• Designing a sustainable, scalable, future proof, and most
importantly relevant, Web 2.0 company from the ground up
• Designing a sustainable, scalable, future proof, and most
importantly relevant, Web 2.0 company from the ground up
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4. Agenda (Final)
• Designing a sustainable, scalable, future proof, and most
importantly relevant, Web 2.0 company from the ground up
• Designing a sustainable, scalable, future proof, and most
importantly relevant, Web 2.0 company from the ground up
• Designing a sustainable, scalable, and most importantly interesting,
Web 2.0 company from the ground up
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5. st
The 1 Web experience
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6. Service Driven Network?
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7. Clouds?
xkcd by Randall Munroe
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8. Community and Interaction
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9. “The Network is the
Computer”
• 1 billion+ people on the
Net today 1.5 Billion
• 390 gigabytes of data
created every second
• 50% new data growth
Internet
Users
TIME
1995 2000 2005 2010
Everyone and everything participates on the network
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10. Sun Addresses Key Internet Customer Challenges
Best of Breed 3rd Party Solution
GreenPlum, Zeus
Sun Infrastructure Solutions
Proxy Caching, Project Darkstar, Glassfish, Messaging,
Directory,Developer Tools, Identity Management
DataCenter Management Infrastructure
xVM, OpsCenter, Project Caroline, Managed Services
Open Source Operating Stack
OpenSolaris, Project Indiana, Zones,MySQL, ZFS, Crossbow
Systems and Storage
Thumper, Honeycomb, Galaxy, Niagara
Accelerate Time to Managing Improve
Market with Open Data Center
Explosive
Source Efficiency
Growth

11. Redefining Architecture
• We used to think of
architectural analogies for
individual things
– 'blueprints'
• We are now thinking of
analogies for ecosystems
– urban planning
> e.g., flexible and
dynamic growth or
'services' within
defined rules / patterns
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12. Building Java Solaris SPARC
Open Building a Vibrant Ecosystem: Sun is the Largest
and Commercial Contributor to Open Source Communities
Free Community Infrastructure Ecosystem
Communities
java.net
The Source for Java
Technology Collaboration
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13. A selection of Legos
• PHP, Ruby, Jruby
• apache, lighttpd, nginx
• memcached, ehcache
• MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Hadoop, MogileFS, MapReduce, pNFS
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14. Open Architecture Network
• Each year....
> ~100M suffer disaster
> 1B in slums, 2.6B w/o sanitation
• Bring together architects,
designers & community organizers
> Copyright-free designs
> Building plans and blueprints
> Case studies
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15. OpenSolaris
Highlights
• Build out your IT infrastructure for next ●
Dynamic tracing for
gen Web with the most scalable, troubleshooting in real time
available, reliable, and secure OS ●
Virtualization capabilities
• Open and free Solaris supported on the improve utilization
broadest set of x86 and SPARC ●
Unmatched multi-level
platforms security features
• Project Indiana delivers a binary ●
ZFS delivers “19 9's data
distribution of OpenSolaris combining integrity”, automatically
the best of both worlds – the unique repairing corrupted data
advantages of Solaris with a user-
friendly distribution model
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Self-healing mitigates errors
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Extreme speed network
stacks
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Vertical and horizontal multi-
platform scalability
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16. • Try and Buy
Program
For • Sun Solution
Enterprises Centers
• SLA level support
For
Startups
Added For
Developers
Sun Startup Essentials
• Discounts of up to
60% on servers and
Incentives
storage • End-to-end,
open-source
• Discounts on development tools
partner web hosting
• AMP stack optimized
• Free technical for Solaris
advice
• Try and Buy Program
for Developers
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17. Summary
Next-Generation
Web
Ajax, Ruby Contributing Contributing Mozilla,
on Rails, etc. to core to open GNOME, etc.
web technologies standards
Projects:
Open- Pushing GlassFish, Looking
OpenSolaris, NetBeans, sourcing Glass, Kenai,
the
MySQL, Jruby, Innotek etc.the whole envelope DarkStar, Blackbox,
stack
Thumper, etc.
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18. Thank you
sokol@sun.com