BUILDING FOR WEBSCALEOpensource & SSD’s

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James Malachowski | CEO & Co-founder | www.nodeprime.com | @jamesmalac

INTRODUCTIONAbout MeFormer Cisco, Dell. I’ve helped some of the world’s largest companies design and build out massive datacenters.

About NodePrimeManagement & Analytics Platform for Webscale IT.

Our MissionEmpower Truth, Efficiency and Flexibility in IT Operations.

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THE DATACENTER IS EVOLVING

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COMPUTE

STORAGE

NETWORK

MONOSCALE WEBSCALE

WEB

APP

DB

STORAGE

COMPONENTS OF WEBSCALE IT

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C/C++

APPLICATION CONTAINERS BIG DATA APPLICATIONS

COMPUTE NETWORKSTORAGE

HARDWARE ABSTRACTION

VIRTUALDATACENTER OS BARE-METAL OS

PLATFORM CONSIDERATIONS

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BARE-METAL HYPERVISOR DATACENTER OS

High Performance, Purpose Built Workload Mobility, Infra Efficiency High Availability, Infra Scalability

Database, Storage, Legacy IaaS, VDI, Legacy SaaS, PaaS, Analytics, Web Services

Cassandra

• Dual socket • 64GB Mem • 1GB network • SAS SSD’s

Search

• Dual socket • 128GB Mem • 1GB network • PCIE SSD’s

Hadoop

• Single socket • 64GB Mem • 10GB network • HDD’s

Web/App

• Single socket/ARM • 32GB Mem • 1GB network • Stateless (no disk)

IaaS

• Quad socket • 1TB Mem • 10GB network • SAS SSD’s

VDI

• Dual socket • 256GB Mem • 10GB network • PCIE SSD’s

DATA DRIVES DECISION MAKING

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Quality

Performance

Price

Reliability

Failure Rates? MTBF?

Read/Write ratio? Warranty expectations?

Power consumption? Availability?

Sourcing? Support?

Which Drives Do I Need?

THE FUTURE

• Containers!

• Open Compute!

• ARM

• The death of the SAN?

• Quantum computers…

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