Open Source Software & Open Source Hardware

A platform for innovation

Cole Crawford

• Cloud Advisor to the Linux Foundation• Open Compute Storage Project Chair

In 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..”

-Linus Torvalds

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”.

-Richard Stallman

In the beginning

Closed Hybrid Open

Enter the .com boom

The End of an Era

A new shift

Scale Up vs Scale Out

The Data Center Dilemma

Virtualization Arrives

Enter Cloud

The World Today

Closed Hybrid Open

Exascale Computing arrives

Facebook’s Metrics • 800 billion page views each month• Responsible for over 10% of all internet traffic• Over 100 million new photos every day• Over 90,000 servers

Open Compute Verticals

Virt IO:http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-virtualio

Hardware Mgmt:http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-hardwaremngt

Data Center Design:http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-datacenterdesign

Open Rack:http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-openrack

Storage:http://lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-storage

Open Compute – The Who

FacebookSynnexEmulex

Tier 1’sTier 2’sVAR’s

FinancialLife SciencesOil and GasScale out Web

Anyone that would benefit from an open spec, increased data center efficiency and a simplified supply chain management process!

The New World 1.0

Interfaces / API’s Interfaces / API’s

The Future

Interfaces / API’s