SDN and Openflow: Effects of Disaggregation
Hi all, continuing from last week, today I want to emphasize the importance of new open controllers being developed and deployed as part of the journey of various Webscale companies. Please refer to the following presentation by Google in 2015…
What I learned from Mr James Demers at Nortel
Hi all, I am back with my next lesson and I am switching companies again. I plan to take you all to Nortel, a company I joined in 2002. It was a great company with great technology and a great…
Open Source OS – Effects of Disaggregation
Continuing from the previous week, let us explore today, the complimentary technology that was required by the web-scale companies to grow their server farms. Last week we discussed, how Google took out the costs from the hardware by designing a spec…
What I learned from Mr Atanu Dasgupta at Power Grid – Part 9
I want to take up one more lesson from Mr. Dasgupta before I take up lessons from other leaders in my life. In today’s blog, I will cover another interesting topic about being a good leader. Let us take a look…
Commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) Servers: Effects of Disaggregation
Continuing from the previous week, let us explore today, why the need for simplified COTS servers came into being. There’s no official data on how many servers there are in Google data centers, but Gartner estimated in a July 2016…
What I learned from Mr Atanu Dasgupta at Power Grid – Part 8
Continuing on my experiences with Mr. Dasgupta, in today’s blog, I will cover a related topic about being a good leader. Let us take a look at the next lesson. Bridge Distances with Technology – Make World a Small Place…
How big is a large Data Center? – Effects of Disaggregation
Continuing from the previous week, let us explore today, how big these data centers could get:- Consider the following infographic from Go-Globe: Even this data is slightly older, now we have more than 400 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every…
What I learned from Mr Atanu Dasgupta at Power Grid – Part 7
Continuing on my experiences with Mr. Dasgupta, in today’s blog, I will cover a related topic about being a good leader. Let us take a look at the next lesson. Develop a Hobby, Have a life outside of Work Ever…
Web Scale led to Data Warehousing – Effects of Disaggregation
Continuing from the previous week, let us explore today, how did these companies grow so fast that we have coined a new term webscale. Let us look at the following:- What commodity did they provide?: Primarily Information: filtered, searchable, indexed,…
What I learned from Mr Atanu Dasgupta at Power Grid – Part 6
Continuing on my experiences with Mr. Dasgupta, in today’s blog, I will cover another interesting topic about being a good leader. Let us take a look at the next lesson. One Must Have Fun at Work: Fun is not Optional…