This session runs until 6pm
Peter Tandy Sales Manager Europe - SUN Microsystems
The topic of this session is a new paradigm for managing data. Interesting stat over 37% of the world's archived data resides on SUN - seeing customers moving away from proprietory data storage solutions. Another phrase around innovation: "innovation loves a crisis". Over the last three years a big investment in storage innovation compared to previous years. There is going to be a copy of the slides made available so not worth repeating.
Professor Alexander Reinefeld, Head of Computer Science Zuse-Institute
Just some of the fascinating facts
Facebook is processing 10 Million requests per second....
You must replicate - gave examples of a German Library that burnt down in 2006, and an historical archive bulding that collapsed in February this year. We have had a pretty serious postgraduate level lecture on something called Scalaris. I think that one of the most interesting thing I heard was google have a patent pending for a data centre which resides in a boat - using wave energy to power the servers, and the ocean to provide the cooling and the whole thing floats on the high seas. That sounds like an interesting concept in terms of mobility! Overall, the key conclusions were tape archives will be there for a long time (they have long expected lifetime 10-30 years say, and they take little power and cooling). The second thing was RAM as the new disk - Google have one trillion URLs in RAM - better bandwidth and latency. The third thing - transactions are faster on the internet than a single disk access - anytime, anywhere. A nice finishing slide from the cover of Communications of the ACM 12/08 Vol 51 No 12 (which I cannot find online).
Steve Heller SUN Labs Director Collaborative Environments
Really smart speaker covering a very wide range of future technologies under investigation in the labs. Invitation to participate in the community at sun.research.com. Just too much to write about.
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