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It's time again for the Open Compute Summit. #4 is Jan 16-17, 2013 in Santa Clara.
The next Open Compute Summit is January 16-17, 2013, in Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Registration is now open, and is still free, so register today!
Keep checking back here for the agenda and other information. And join the Open Compute Project groupon Facebook for all OCP announcements.
About the only people I know who go to Gartner Data Center are vendors who have booths or are looking to network. I have actually run into a high school friend who loves Gartner for their guidance as they are lost without the reports. These are high school friends, not college friends or technical friends from high tech companies.
Curious I took a look at the program for this year's Gartner and all the speakers are Gartner analysts except Dave Barry. There are 47 Gartner analysts presenting
If you are attending as a vendor you better be ready to engage Gartner for their expertise to put you in the magic quadrant. BTW, that expertise is not free. :-)
Criticism
It has been pointed out that the criteria for the Magic Quadrant cater more towards investors and large vendors than towards buyers.[2]
Much of the criticism is focused on the lack of disclosure of the money received from the vendors it rates, raising conflict of interest issues. Also a source of criticism is the lack of disclosure on the vendor's component scores and the lack of transparency in Gartner's methodology used to derive the vendor's position on the MQ map.
I guess for my high school friend would like the presentations as they can match the analyst with the report. But is this an industry conference?
The 7x24 Exchange Conference has announced their agenda and two people who I have had on 7x24 panels are presenting on their own this next conference, Microsoft's Amaya Souarez and Google's Joe Kava.
One of the reasons I enjoy the 7x24 Exchange conference is how people who have something good to say can get a speaking spot without a sponsorship package.
Monday Amaya Souarez is presenting on Capacity Planning.
1:30 P.M.
Microsoft: DC Capacity Planning - From Rack to Future Market
Capacity Planning for Data Centers is a uniquely challenging adventure, and is not a one size fits all problem. All data center owners, hosting providers and business strategy planners are at some point in time dealing with a capacity planning issue. The complexity of managing capacity is particularly accelerated in the online services industry, due to rapidly changing market requirements.
Amaya Souarez
Director, DC Strategy & Automation
Microsoft
Tues Joe Kava is Keynoting with some new material never presented to the public.
9:00 A.M.
Keynote:
Google Data Centers: A Behind the Scenes Look at Infrastructure and Innovations
Google's data center practice helped develop the company's competitive edge for online services and products. Now, nearly seven years after the first data center went into production, there is an ever increasing need to be creative in order to drive efficiency and minimize the impact on the planet. This presentation hopes to uncover some of Google's early day decisions, why they were made and how those decisions led to future innovation. Take a virtual tour with us of our facilities and join the discussion of what challenges we all face in the industry.
Joe Kava
Senior Director
Google Data Centers
Weds Facebook is presenting data on their operations in humid climates.
10:15 A.M.
Facebook OCP: Operation in Humid Climate & DC Reliability Calculations
Facebook has completed the of construction of custom greenfield datacenters in Prineville, OR, and Forest City, NC, and is currently constructing in Lulea, Sweden. Previously, Facebook leased datacenter capacity, as is typical for Internet startups. As demand continued to grow, it was clear that Facebook would reach a scale where design and construction of a customized site would be beneficial. Control of the application, the server configurations, and the datacenter design would allow for customization beyond what is typical industry practice. The following Open Compute Project technologies and topics will be discussed (opencompute.org): quick review of design; operational data in east coast datacenter humid climate; review of our reliability calculations.
Paul Hsu, P.E.
Datacenter Electrical Engineer
Dan Lee. P.E.
Datacenter Mechanical Engineer
It’s that time of year for Steve Manos’s “On Tap” social. This year it is Norland On Tap at Chicago Illuminating Company. The sponsors are Norland, Opengate, Latisys, and JLL.
If you’ll be in Chicago on Oct 16 your best bet to attend is to reach out to your contacts at the sponsoring companies for an invitation.
Unfortunately, I cannot make it this year, but I will be in Chicago the week after for another event.
I've had a few people ask what conferences I plan on going to next. I'll be at 7x24 Exchange Phoenix in November. This week I'll be at GigaOm Mobile in SF. Thinking about a few others too, but nothing solid.
One that I was reminded of today is the 4th Facebook Open Compute Summit which is Jan 16- 17 2013 in Santa Clara, CA.
Attend a summit! The next OCP Summit will be held in Santa Clara, California on January 16th and 17th. Stay tuned for more information.
There aren't a whole lot of details, but I have gone to all three and have learned a lot and met great people. What more do you want from a conference?
If you are interested in presenting or sponsoring the event you can go to the link for contacts.
