Moderator: Barb Darrow, Senior Writer GigaOm Panelists: Brandon Fears, HP Dan Choquette, Director, Cloud & Big Data Solutions Integration, Dell Jan Drake, Principal Cloud Architect, Disney Corp. Jason Waxman, General Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Group, Intel Corporation Yael McGuire, Strategist (for the Open Compute Project) Cloud infrastructure Trends Open-source comes to hardware Webscale data center hardware Scale-up purpose-built appliances Cell phone chips powering data center servers Your questions http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org

1. Rapid Fire Panel #8:
Cloud HW Infrastructure
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2. Rapid Fire Panel #8: Cloud HW
Moderator Barb Darrow
Senior Writer
Panelists Dan Choquette Jan Drake
Director, Cloud & Big Data Principal Cloud Architect
Solutions Integration
Brandon Fears Yael Maguire
Strategist
Jason Waxman
General Manager,
Cloud Infrastructure Group
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3. Cloud hardware infrastructure trends
• Open-source comes to hardware
• Webscale data center hardware
• Scale-up purpose-built appliances
• Cell phone chips powering data center servers
• Your questions
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4. Polling Question:
Text the keyword to 22333 or tweet it to @OpenDataCenter
Which of these data center technologies do you think will gain the most traction in
the next 12-18 months?
10G Ethernet 10GETHER
Low-power ARM- or Atom-based servers LOWPOWER
Flash as primary storage FLASHSTORAGE
Converged hardware (combines
compute/storage/networking functions)
CONVERGEDHW
DC Power DCPOWER
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8. Cloud HW infrastructure Questions & Topics
• What’s the future of cloud hardware infrastructure? Good question. As more workloads
flow into webscale clouds , the push is on towring the most oomph out of low-cost
standard hardware. Efforts like the Facebook-initiated Open Compute Project (now the
Open Compute Foundation) are key examples of this.
• The goal there is to bring the open-source model that’s been so wildly successful in
software wehre it drove Linux into a power position, into hardware realm so that data
center buyers can innovate on top of a pretty standard set of building blocks. The use
of open-source hardware makes sense for the biggest of big clouds where the goal is to
scale out as many servers as possible as cheaply as possible.
• The need to cut energy consumption is also leading some data centers to try out
electricity-stingy servers running on ARM or Atom processors – CPUs that were built for
cell phones and itty-bitty devices, not for raised-floor data centers.
• And then, across the spectrum from the commodity hardware crowd, are an array of
special-purpose high-end data center boxes that combine storage, compute and
networking loads in a single enclosure.
• Other topics
• the develop trend and what, if anything it means to data center pros
• Are big-bang web scale data centers the answer for every business?
• What's the future of special-built data center appliances? What are the use cases?
• How big an impact will the drive to "open source" hardware have on hardware vendors?
can they differentiate enough?
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