Although there are a lot of Cloud Consumers out there, there arent too many Cloud Builders. One the one hand it requires a serious capital investment. On the other hand it is largely a black art. This applies to the Cloud OS as well as the physical platform. Approaching a Cloud as a large Cluster of regular servers with off the shelf interconnect will get you a wiring mess, partitioning which is hopelessly insecure, and crippling performance bottlenecks. This is because a cloud isn’t just a server cluster – it’s a cluster of virtual servers. So you need virtualization aware components to build a cloud and you need to know how to connect and configure them. In this session we wont provide wiring diagrams or switch configuration instructions but we will explain the challenges that Cloud Builder face from security, performance, and scalability perspectives. We will explain why Cloud Building is not like any other large datacenter or hosting project. The technologies of virtualization aware components including the virtualization aware data networking, storage networking, and also virtualization aware blade servers are brand new and a must to know about if you want to understand how the leaders are building Clouds now. This session will be of interest to actual Cloud Builders as well as those curious about the man behind the curtain.
Duration : 0:3:48
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