From RAD Lab

Rob O'Callahan

Chuck Thacker

Rethinking Data Centers

Chuck Thacker, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

Microsoft builds several data centers each year, with each center containing in excess of fifty thousand servers. This is quite expensive, and we'd like to reduce the capital and operating expenses for these centers.

This talk suggests that an effective way to do this is to treat the data center as a system, rather than focusing on the individual components such as networking and servers. I'll describe one way this could work, with a particular focus on the networking infrastructure.

Thorsten von Eicken

Title The Future of Software: In the Cloud

Thorsten von Eicken, CTO, RightScale.com

Chris Olston

Title "Processing Web-Scale Data with Pig"

Chris Olston, Yahoo Inc.

Charles Gordon

Title The Evolution and Architecture of IMDb

Charles Gordon, Principal Engineer, Amazon.com