The Open Source Data Center

Cole CrawfordOpen Compute Foundation

A Platform for innovation

Open Source Software - 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..”

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”.

Software Timeline

Closed Hybrid Open

1970s-80s 1980s-90s 1990s-Present

Evolution of the Cloud

1998 2003 2006 2008 2009

Virtualization Devops IAAS / CLOUD

Proprietary Open Source Proprietary

2008 2009 2010

Open Core Open Source

In the beginning - HardwareThe current rack standard has no specification for depth or height.The only “standard” is the requirement for it to be 19 inches wide.

This standard evolved out of the railroad switching era.

Evolution of the Data Center

1970s 1990s 2000’s

Mainframe Scale Up Scale Out

Proprietary Proprietary Proprietary

2011++

Open Source

Open Compute

• Virt IO

• Hardware Management

• Data Center Design

• Open Rack

• Storage

5 Main Verticals – All Open Source

What is it?

Who is it?

Why does it exist?

To democratize hardware and eliminate gartuitous differentiation allowing for standardization across tier 1’s and ODMs.

Open Compute

OCP Prineville Data center Google Data Center

PUE = 1.08 PUE = 1.3

State of the Union

▪ Production Ready Open Source Software▪ Vanity Free Open Source Hardware

Where do we go from here?

The New Standard - Open Compute Certification

Validated reference architectures for any combination of hardware + software

Turn key supply chain management for hardware procurement

Ready to run bare metal provisioning – fully supported by ISV’s / SI’s / Distros

Validated Reference Architecture

• Turn Key certification• SI integration• Instant global channel creation• ODM’s become hardware partners• Supply Chain management becomes simple• Support throughout server / software lifecycle

Open Compute – Get Involved

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Open Source the Data Center

Change the world!

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