The Trip from Mainframe from Mobile presented by Qualcomm's Dileep Bhandarkar, VP of Technology

Last week I was at Gigaom Structure and ran in to Dileep Bhandarkar.  Dileep and I would run into data center events when Dileep worked in Microsoft’s Data Center group, but we don’t see each other as much as Dileep has moved.  Dileep made the commitment to Mobile by joining Qualcomm.

On Aug 21, 2014, noon at the Computer History Museum in Mtn View, CA Dileep will tell his story of the trip from mainframes to mobile.  I currently have a trip planned for SJ at that time so I should be able to make the presentation.

Aug 21, 2014 12:00 PM 
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From Mainframe to Smartphone: What an Amazing Trip It’s Been with Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar, Qualcomm
Disruptive technologies have caused dramatic changes in computing technology for decades, often in unacknowledged ways. In this talk, Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar will paint a picture that puts these changes into perspective, and which shows how this series of disruptions have set a course that has evolved from the mainframe to the current smartphone, mobile and cloud computing world.

Dr. Bhandarkar has been an architect in the areas of memory and processor design, workstation and server systems, and data center infrastructure while at TI, DEC, Intel, and Microsoft. His current work as VP of Technology at Qualcomm focuses on energy efficient designs for next generation computing platforms. Dileep holds 16 US patents, and has published more than 30 technical papers. He became an IEEE Fellow for his contributions and technical leadership in the design of complex and reduced instruction set architecture, and in computer system performance analysis.


Join us for this fascinating lecture by Dr. Bhandakar as he paints a picture that puts this technology evolution into perspective.

This program is being sponsored by Qualcomm, the Santa Clara Valley Section of the IEEE, and the Computer History Museum.

Netflix is no longer AWS only, Google Compute Engine and Maybe soon Softlayer

It was inevitable for Netflix to use someone else’s Cloud besides AWS.  There are some out there who think AWS is the only choice.  Venture Beat interviews ex-Netflix employee Adrian Cockcraft, and Adrian says Netflix is running on Google Compute Engine.

The company’s services are now all hosted in the public cloud, but not just in AWS. Netflix is also using Google Compute Engine.

In addition to Google, it looks like Softlayer is close as they demo the use of Dockers to deploy NetflixOSS.

The future of being in the cloud will be measured by your ability to run in more than one cloud.  One of the biggest mistakes made going into AWS is not thinking about how you can run in another cloud environment.

Russia dumping x86 for ARM won't work because Pirated x86 SW is huge

Electronics Weekly reports on Russia saying it will switch to the ARM processor.

Russians to dump x86 for ARM

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Concerned about US spying, Vladimir Putin has decided to build a Russian processor to supplant x86 in government computers.

Russia believes that x86 processors may have back doors in them to send back information to the Americans.

 

There are many who think this means the end of x86 processors in Russia.  What few know is the amount of pirated enterprise SW running in markets like Russia and China on x86 processors.  When you switch to ARM all that SW is now worthless.  

You can bet there are Russian IT folks who are sweating how to get their enterprise SW running on Linux ARM, and the budgets they need to increase.

A DC Dude Walks into a Cloud Conference/Gigaom Structure, shares his experience

Gigaom Structure just finished.

THE CLOUD IS THE COMPUTER Meet the innovators and thinkers who are building infrastructure to run the applications of the next decade. 

Watch our Livestream to see what's happening at Structure.  https://go.gigaom.com/Structure2014Livestream_Live.html

Just a few of our speakers include:

  • Scott Guthrie, Microsoft
  • Urs Hölzle, Google
  • Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
  • Raffi Krikorian, Twitter
  • Jamie Miller, GE
  • Werner Vogels, Amazon.com

A few of you signed up for the conference with the 25% discount code I shared for GreenM3 readers.  One of the people who joined last minute is Don Beaty from DLB Associates.  Don and I were both at DCD SF.  Well we have both been at 7x24 Exchange and Uptime Symposium’s hotel bar so I see Don fairly often.  Chatting with Don at DCD SF I told him I was going to Gigaom Structure.  He said it sounds interesting and he would look into changing his plans.  Below is the e-mail Don shared on what he thought of Gigaom Structure.

Hi Dave

Thank you for recommending the Gigaom Conference; this was the first time I attended.

As you know, I am passionate about the increased opportunity for tradeoffs and optimization by considering software, hardware, and facilities holistically.  I really liked the format of the conference but also the lineup of heavy hitters from major players in the industry such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and IBM / Softlayer. 

Having these major players is valuable but having key people from each of these companies was incredible.  The cross section enabled an unusual depth and breadth perspective in this overall area - predominantly software and its impact on business, hardware, facilities, and how we live.

 

I have had a blast starting to attend Gigaom Structure as a blogger, than as an analyst for Gigaom Research, and now as a speaker.  I am biased because I get to see many subtleties at the event which are eye openers, so my opinion is not necessarily objective.  It is nice to hear from a DC expert like Don Beaty on what he thinks of the Gigaom Structure conference.  I know others who have gone to Gigaom Structure for the first time and they definitely will be back next year.  Will you?

Too busy this week to blog, will post next week

This is a busy week meeting, presenting, moderating in SJ/SF.  Normally I have plenty of time to research, think and write.  Today was a day of lots of meetings.  No time to blog. Tomorrow is DatacenterDynamics, and a Gigaom Event in the evening.  Weds and Thurs is Gigaom Structure.  Moderating two panels and lots of analyst meetings.  Friday more meetings, then rest. 

I’ll be back writing next week.