| Speaker Company |
Presentation Title |
Presentation Abstract |
Jim Simonelli
APC
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Close Coupled™ Cooling - A New Concept for Data
Center Heat Rejection |
Use of blade technology is anticipated to double
over the next few years and represent over 25% of the server implementations
by 2010. The need to reject the heat generated by this highly power dense
technology must keep pace. Many cooling technologies have been developed
both inside the blade server and in the data center to keep the servers cool.
However, a significant consideration must be given to the interactions that
occur in real world data center activities between multiple servers, server adds/moves
& changes and the data center heat rejection infrastructure. This paper
explores one technology, close coupled cooling, that places heat rejection
for a rack or row of servers closely coupled to the server source and
discusses its advantages and limitations when compared to alternatives such
as "liquid to the chassis" and other fluid based cooling schemes. |
Sanjeev Jorapur
NetXen
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Scaling the Data Center: Technologies & Trends |
Both Intel and AMD will be adding more and more cores to their CPUs. On the I/O front, 10Gb Ethernet is becoming more affordable and
available. The data centers of the future must become more and more efficient to fully utilize the growing number of cores and multiple 10G interfaces, on modern systems. One way to fully utilize these systems is to deploy a large number of Virtual Machines. There is a hypervisor overhead associated with the VMs. This can be minimized by various IOV technologies. This talk will focus on the technologies needed to build efficient, next generation data centers using blades and 10Gb interfaces.
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Stephane Verdy
Devon IT
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Desktop Consolidation |
Desktop consolidation is an approach to the efficient usage of computer desktop resources in order to reduce the total number of desktops that an organization supports. The practice was developed in response to the problem of "PC sprawl," a situation in which multiple under-utilized PCs take up more space and consume more resources than can be justified by their workload. This presentation will discuss benefits in terms of resource centralization, resource utilization, and hardware cost. Particular emphasis will be given to dense desktop consolidation on blades including: architecture, scalability, power savings consolidating desktops on blade servers and different approaches to remotely delivering remote graphics and multimedia. |
Richard A. Brunner
VMware
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Building the Next Generation Data Center with Embedded Virtualization |
The Next Generation Enterprise Data Center will be built upon blade server systems working together with embedded virtualization technologies, such as VMware ESX Server 3i. These technologies can provide a simple turn-key solution that consolidates a large data center of many, complex and power hungry servers and workloads to a few, high-density, highly-reliable, power-efficient blade server systems. The consolidation reduces cost, power, and maintenance while improving the reliability, availability, serviceability and customer's ROI. This session will describe the technical rationale for these benefits. |
Alex Nicolson
Emulex
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Evolution of the Blade Server Platform |
According to recent surveys, complexity in the data center is a top concern for CIOs, primarily due to run away growth of applications and servers. However, blade servers are presenting a solution platform that promises to help contain server sprawl. This presentation will discuss some of the changing and evolving areas to consider, such as the future of blade server architectures, blade server component trends and the changing demands and requirements for data access and storage that are directly associated with this unique and important server platform. |
Marek Piekarski
VirtenSys
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PCI Express I/O Virtualization in the Data Center |
Data centers have been embracing a range of virtualization technologies in
the pursuit of increase utilization, efficiency and manageability. Storage
virtualization has been with us for some time. Server virtualization is now
seeing increasing deployment across the full range of data centers. I/O
virtualization is a key emerging technology which completes the evolution of
the data center into the dynamic, highly efficient application platform
required by today's businesses. This session will describe the concepts
behind I/O consolidation and virtualization - particularly in the context of
using the native I/O interconnect: PCI Express - and consider its synergies
with blade servers and other virtualization and I/O technologies.
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Barb Goldworm, Moderator
FOCUS consulting
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Brian Bouterse
North Carolina State University
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Matt Drew
GameVee, Inc.
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William Friemann
Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors
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Steve Russell
Morgan Stanley/Technology
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Blade End User Panel Discussion |
This 45-minute blade user panel will focus on the current technology challenges companies face and a wish list of what they'll be looking for the blade community to address in the future.
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Rob Davis
QLogic
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Future I/O Technologies for Blade Servers |
QLogic will present on current and future I/O technologies for Blade Servers, first looking at the technologies in today's blade servers and how they will advance over the next 3-5 years. Then looking at potential new technologies that might be applied to blade servers and how they could affect blade server design and capabilities. |
Joel Reich
NetApp
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DynamicIT: Leveraging Virtualization and Why iSCSI Boot Plays a Dramatic Role |
As compute and storage resource requirements grow, enterprise IT users are redefining their server and storage infrastructure. An increasingly prevalent trend is to deploy large numbers of blade servers and to deploy modular storage, rather than large frame arrays, to serve core and departmental application workloads. This session will cover the advantages of iSCSI booting for grid type computing environments for engineering test, core test and development, and production environments. |
Tim Chao
BLADE Network Technologies
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10 Gigabit Ethernet for FCoE Storage Networks |
As per-port prices drop, 10G Ethernet will
increasingly be deployed to overcome data center bottlenecks for
bandwidth-intensive applications such as high-performance computing, business
continuity, virtualization, video on demand, storage, video surveillance and
voice over IP. This session will explore the outlook for 10G Ethernet in the
next-generation data center, providing guidelines for how to implement 10G
Ethernet switching in state-of-the-art blade server systems and to create
advanced network topologies that employ 10G Ethernet networking directly to
and from each blade in the server. It also will discuss server I/O fabric
convergence around 10G Ethernet for data, storage (IP SAN and FCoE) and
clustering. |
Madhu Matta
Brocade
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Building the Data Center Fabric |
Data growth, compliance requirements, complex
operating environments, budgetary pressures and mission critical applications
are driving shared storage networks into a new age of "data center fabrics."
The data center of the future will need to be designed to consistently,
non-disruptively, and securely provide access to information. Brocade will
discuss how a converged infrastructure deployed in conjunction with
BladeCenter will enable server and storage consolidation, facilitate
deploying virtualized workloads, provide end-to-end QoS and simplify
management functions via fabric based services that allow non disruptive
access to mission critical applications. |
Rob Nance
Intel
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Processor and Memory Trends in the Next-Generation
Data Center |
The trend in blade design is to drive overall power requirements lower while driving utilization up. The goal of lower power will be addressed by the use of low power CPUs, continued integration into the CPU, adoption of SSDs and consolidation of I/O traffic onto the Ethernet fabric. Virtual machine software, optimized I/O virtualization and the use of multi-core CPUs will combine to drive server utilization higher. The increase in CPU cores will keep the need for memory capacity high which is a challenge when designing high-density blade systems. New approaches will be needed to combat the high power and board real estate required to maintain large memory architectures in the not so distant future.
This session will cover some of the changes to platform architectures that will help accelerate these trends and address the challenges. |
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