Datacenter Networks are in my Way

Perspectives (Oct 31 2010) Networking

1. I did a talk earlier this week on the sea change currently taking place in datacenter networks. In Datacenter Networks are in my Way I start with an overview of where the costs are in a high scale datacenter. With that backdrop, we note that networks are fairly low power consumers relative to the total facility consumption and not even close to the dominant cost. Are they actually a problem? The rest of the talk is arguing networks are actually a huge problem across the board including cost and power. Overall, networking gear lags behind the rest of the high-scale infrastructure world, block many key innovations, and actually are both cost and power problems when we look deeper.   The overall talk agenda: ·         Datacenter Economics ·         Is Net Gear Really the Problem? ·         Workload Placement Restrictions ·         Hierarchical & Over-Subscribed ·         Net Gear: SUV of the Data Center ·         Mainframe Business Model ·         Manually Configured & Fragile at Scale ... (Read Full Article)

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