Panel Discussion, at Open Compute Summit V (2014) with Dave Vellante, Tim Lyons, George Slessman, and Cole Crawford.
Dave Vellante, Wikibon analyst and theCUBE co-host, was invited to moderate a Panel Discussion at the fifth edition of the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California this week.
Just before the guests took the stage, George Slessman (CEO and Product Architect at IO) made a quick presentation to the audience, right from his iPhone, with the purpose to show how the data center is going to be for the enterprises.
"We're focused on the enterprise world and how they consume compute. The days of cardboard boxes being shipped to data centers, unboxed, put in racks, custom configured, custom cabled and custom managed is coming to an end," warned Slessman. "I want to demonstrate how we can stand up a virtual instance on an iPhone, across an LT network, across the country, in a Tier 3 certified data center with a 600+ enterprise customers running across the global network."
In about five clicks and just as many settings, the virtual server was up and running, taking less than three minutes.
"This is the data center as an API," explained Slessman. "That's what the world of compute deployment is going to be. If people don't see what's coming, they're going to get run over by it."
George Slessman was then joined on stage by Dave Vellante as the chairman of the debate and by Tim Lyons from Merck and Cole Crawford from OCP. The talk was called "Open Architecture: The Tipping Point for Enterprise Cloud."
Vellante started off by quickly sharing a couple of stats from Wikibon.org:
the industry average depreciation cycle of a typical US data center is twenty-five years
by 2018 the global market for cloud equipment is forecast to hit $80 billion
the so-called converged infrastructure business is a $400 billion dollar market, so the proprietary B.S. is actually very lucrative
Matt Eastwood of IDC tweeted some figures: seven percent of x86 revenues and 12 percent percent of the volume now comes from ODM
Vellante quoted his CUBE partner, John Furrier, who identified "an engineering reset," that is enabling us to release the shackles of hardware barriers.
Vellante's first introductory question was addressed to Crawford, who was asked to talk about the state of the open source movement, specifically in relations to the architecture.
"In terms of architecture, on the software side, we're well into the game; open source has proved itself way back into the 90′s, but on the hardware side you're getting the same critical eye that you used to get back in the day about Linux," Crawford responded.
Lyons, coming from a financial background, was asked to provide his input regarding the enterprise tipping point, focusing on enterprise infrastructure generally and cloud specifically. As we know, financial businesses tend to be the harbringer of major trends. However, in the healthcare-pharma industry it's a little bit early.
"In the future, I think the opportunities around analytics are important -- for the drug development as well for improving the manufacturing. Analyzing the real-world data may lead to more personalized medicine," said Lyons. As for scaling out the technology that a lot of companies like Facebook have done, "if you're going to start analyzing massive amounts of data, leveraging the wave of Open Compute and OpenStack is critical."
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Panel Discussion, at Open Compute Summit V (2014) with Dave Vellante, Tim Lyons, George Slessman, and Cole Crawford.
Dave Vellante, Wikibon analyst and theCUBE co-host, was invited to moderate a Panel Discussion at the fifth edition of the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California this week.
Just before the guests took the stage, George Slessman (CEO and Product Architect at IO) made a quick presentation to the audience, right from his iPhone, with the purpose to show how the data center is going to be for the enterprises.
"We're focused on the enterprise world and how they consume compute. The days of cardboard boxes being shipped to data centers, unboxed, put in racks, custom configured, custom cabled and custom managed is coming to an end," warned Slessman. "I want to demonstrate how we can stand up a virtual instance on an iPhone, across an LT network, across the country, in a Tier 3 certified data center with a 600+ enterprise customers running across the global network."
In about five clicks and just as many settings, the virtual server was up and running, taking less than three minutes.
"This is the data center as an API," explained Slessman. "That's what the world of compute deployment is going to be. If people don't see what's coming, they're going to get run over by it."
George Slessman was then joined on stage by Dave Vellante as the chairman of the debate and by Tim Lyons from Merck and Cole Crawford from OCP. The talk was called "Open Architecture: The Tipping Point for Enterprise Cloud."
Vellante started off by quickly sharing a couple of stats from Wikibon.org:
the industry average depreciation cycle of a typical US data center is twenty-five years
by 2018 the global market for cloud equipment is forecast to hit $80 billion
the so-called converged infrastructure business is a $400 billion dollar market, so the proprietary B.S. is actually very lucrative
Matt Eastwood of IDC tweeted some figures: seven percent of x86 revenues and 12 percent percent of the volume now comes from ODM
Vellante quoted his CUBE partner, John Furrier, who identified "an engineering reset," that is enabling us to release the shackles of hardware barriers.
Vellante's first introductory question was addressed to Crawford, who was asked to talk about the state of the open source movement, specifically in relations to the architecture.
"In terms of architecture, on the software side, we're well into the game; open source has proved itself way back into the 90′s, but on the hardware side you're getting the same critical eye that you used to get back in the day about Linux," Crawford responded.
Lyons, coming from a financial background, was asked to provide his input regarding the enterprise tipping point, focusing on enterprise infrastructure generally and cloud specifically. As we know, financial businesses tend to be the harbringer of major trends. However, in the healthcare-pharma industry it's a little bit early.
"In the future, I think the opportunities around analytics are important -- for the drug development as well for improving the manufacturing. Analyzing the real-world data may lead to more personalized medicine," said Lyons. As for scaling out the technology that a lot of companies like Facebook have done, "if you're going to start analyzing massive amounts of data, leveraging the wave of Open Compute and OpenStack is critical."
