This talk focuses on how Financial Services companies prepare for the next big technology step change while running a heterogeneous infrastructure environment (edge, fog, colo, primary data centre, etc).   Financial Services companies are looking for best practices gleamed from hyper-scale companies like Facebook, Microsoft and Google who run highly efficient private and public clouds. The sharing of open hardware and data centre designs is a core strategy for these companies and the basis for the Open Compute Project (OCP).   The Open Compute Project (OCP) was started by Facebook in 2011 with the idea of delivering the most efficient designs for scalable computing through an open source hardware community. We believe that openly sharing ideas, specifications, and other intellectual property is the key to maximizing innovation and reducing complexity in technology components. Goldman Sachs (a current board member of OCP) is one example of a company who is leveraging these designs.   OCP designs are more efficient at the ingredient level (server, storage, networking) compared to traditional gear yielding energy savings of 15% + and reduced service costs of ≈ 50%. Also, OCP data centres achieve PUE's better than 1.1 (definition). In fact, IDC forecast that by 2020 OCP Servers are expected to represent 50% of the global market.   In this session we would discuss the key strategies Financial Services companies need to consider now to simplify the migration and data centre transformation from conventional gear to OCP and open source. We would provide specific examples of how other Financial Services companies and large enterprises have made this transition. Additional goals would include: • Research findings – share results comparing OCP with legacy infrastructure from large enterprises who have tested OCP gear in their local facilities. • Facebook and Microsoft – help the audience understand which OCP designs from hyper-scale companies can be used for each environment (colo, edge, etc.)

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Rethinking infrastructure
with Open Hardware
Steve Helvie – VP of Channel – Open Compute Foundation
steve@opencompute.org
@stevehelvie

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£ 20,000,000

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Software is eating Hardware
What’s happening in the “open” data center?
The numbers…
The lessons from Open Source software

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By 2020, 30% of strategic relationships
will shift to the right
Source: IDC

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Software eats Hardware – Virtual Machines
No VMs Heavyweight VM’s - 2008 Lightweight VM’s - 2018

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Software eats web servers
Hip Hop Virtual Machine & Hack
No Hip Hop VM’s With Hip Hop VM’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHVM

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Worldwide Server Market Revenue Grew 43.7% YoY to a Record
$22.5 Billion During the Second Quarter of 2018
The rise of
the ODM…

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Worldwide Server Shipments Continued...
The rise of
the ODM

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50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
Top 10 Next 100 Next 1,000 Bottom 10,000
Avg of 13,000 servers
purchased annually
Large internal engineering force
Leading edge technologies
Custom HW and SW
Minimal IT resources
Stable technologies
Standard OEM HW/SW
Source: Gartner & IDC
Enterprise Companies
# of Servers
Purchased Annually
Top 10 in the
World
Is this changing??

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Source: Deloitte
Technology Budgets as a % of Revenue
Where does it all go?

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Standards
Organisations
Multi-Party
Sourcing
Agreements
OPEN SOURCE
PROJECTS
Producers write the
specification with
voluntary adoption.
Consumers pool
demand. Producers
agree to build a
compatible product.
Consumers & Producers
Defacto Standards
Produces Compatible Products
Types of Organisations

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OEMs
TECHNOLOGY USERS
The old innovation pipeline

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TECHNOLOGY USERS
Open Source Innovation Model

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What can we remove from the system?
Can we raise operating temperatures and have the
servers survive?
Can we increase relative humidity operational ranges
to make the system much more efficient?
Do we need a centralized power supplies or chillers?

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Enabling the industry to Consume, Collaborate, and Contribute
Open Compute Project
A collaborative community focused on redesigning hardware technology to
efficiently support the growing demands on compute infrastructure.

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Efficiency
Scale
Impact
Openness

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Networking Server Storage Rack & Power
Data
Center
Telco HW Mgmt Open System
Firmware
HPC Security
Our Projects
Advanced Cooling
Edge Sub ProjectModular DC

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https://theconversation.com/open-source-hardware-could-defend-against-the-next-generation-of-hacking-104473
https://opensource.com/article/18/10/news-october-27
Open-source hardware could
defend against the next
generation of hacking….
Joshua Pearce – Michigan Tech Univ. October - 2018
Open-source software isn’t inherently
or automatically more secure. But it
creates more possibilities, and market
pressure, for improving security.
Security

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Security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCMplDQLsfw
Standard hardware interface and protocols for ensuring
boot code integrity
Open-source firmware for dedicated security hardware
Security firmware APIs and protocols
Change of ownership of the IT gear (e.g., resale)
https://www.opencompute.org/projects/security

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Advanced
Cooling
Cold Plate
Workstream (Dell)
Door Heat Exchange
Workstream (Facebook)
Immersion
Workstream (Asperitas)

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Leadership

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What types of companies are participating in OCP?

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Specs
Design
Files
Product
Recognition
Reference
Architecture
Tested Configs White Papers
Case
Studies
Seminars Testimonials Videos
Embedded SW
TRADITIONAL NEW WAYS
There are many ways to Contribute to OCP
https://www.opencompute.org/contributions

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Open Source is delivering the new technologies

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Europe is leading the way in OCP….
New hardware layer and more suitable Citrix environment
35% Reduction in TCO 30% Reduction in OPEX
Enter.IT
Started in 2011 building their open source software strategy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5DQowa3QGc&feature=youtu.be
Booking.com : 40% less energy compared to blades
First IXP in the world to adopt a disaggregated model
https://www.opencompute.org/events/past-summits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DON0en2xGs&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qIOptRGL2c&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZ7vuW1GGU&feature=youtu.be

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Public vs. Private - “It is not
on-prem versus cloud, it’s not
an or, it’s an and.
Dean Nelson – Head of Uber Compute

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The OCP Solution Providers and the OCP Marketplace
is our “Reseller Channel”
OCP Marketplace
https://www.opencompute.org/productshttps://www.opencompute.org/sp/open-compute-project-solution-providers

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Product
Details &
Spec
Filters &
Search
https://www.opencompute.org/products

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EU Legislation – Eco Design Directive
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/initiatives/ares-2017-3069227_en

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OCP Server Power Consumption

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Combined Heat & Compute (CH&C)
Data Centres used as heat generators
Higher exhaust air temperatures
possible on OCP racks
Liquid heat transfer systems being
hacked in OCP

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Hyperscaler OCP hardware re-use
Enabled by the removal of gratuitous
product differentiation

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Linux Foundation & Data Centre Open Source Software Adoption
2000 2018
>90%

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2011 2025
>80%
2016
20%
50%
2020
OCP Foundation and Adoption

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Where can I see OCP in Europe?

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Circle B, Rittal and Switch
Datacenters have launched
the first European Open
Compute Project (OCP)
Experience Centre.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180929005012/en/Circle-Rittal-Switch-
Datacenters-Launch-European-OCP
OCP Experience Centre

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£ 20,000,000
5kw per rack then the IT load is 1,200 X 5
If banks were to simply swap out the old gear for OCP gear they would
see a saving of electricity of more than £5,000 per year per rack.
We would reduce from four hundred racks in each of the
three core data centers down to 200 in each.

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TCO and technical advantages
of open source networking in
the data centre
Pete Crocker - UK-based systems engineer for Cumulus Networks
Tomorrow: 3:10pm ROOM 6

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