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Session about Open Source Software & Open Source Hardware by Cole Crawford in the 2012 OpenStack APAC Conference
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Open Source Software & Open Source Hardware
A platform for innovation
Cole Crawford
• Cloud Advisor to the Linux Foundation• Open Compute Storage Project Chair
In the beginning
“Hello everybody out there using minix —
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones..”
-Linus Torvalds
Free Unix!
“Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free(1) to everyone who can use it. Contributions of time, money, programs and equipment are greatly needed”.
-Richard Stallman
In the beginning
Closed Hybrid Open
Enter the .com boom
The End of an Era
A new shift
Scale Up vs Scale Out
The Data Center Dilemma
Virtualization Arrives
Enter Cloud
The World Today
Closed Hybrid Open
Exascale Computing arrives
Facebook’s Metrics • 800 billion page views each month• Responsible for over 10% of all internet traffic• Over 100 million new photos every day• Over 90,000 servers
Open Compute Verticals
Virt IO:http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-virtualio
Hardware Mgmt:http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-hardwaremngt
Data Center Design:http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-datacenterdesign
Open Rack:http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-openrack
Storage:http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-storage
Open Compute – The Who
FacebookSynnexEmulex
Tier 1’sTier 2’sVAR’s
FinancialLife SciencesOil and GasScale out Web
Anyone that would benefit from an open spec, increased data center efficiency and a simplified supply chain management process!
The New World 1.0
Interfaces / API’s Interfaces / API’s
The Future
Interfaces / API’s
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