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Open Compute Project and the Changing Data Center
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
Ken Patchett, Facebook
Grand Ballroom ABC
We’ve all seen the impact that open source has had on innovation in software; open sharing and collaboration have been at the root of some of our greatest achievements as an industry. Similarly, the Open Compute Project, a prominent industry initiative focused on driving greater openness and collaboration in infrastructure technology, has cultivated a community working together establishing common standards for scalable and highly efficient technologies that everyone can adopt and build upon, from the bottom of the hardware stack to the top. Facebook’s Ken Patchett will provide a brief history of the project and an overview of current technologies, and discuss how open compute platforms are shaping the future of computing. He will share learnings from his work as Facebook’s director of data center operations in the Western region and highlight how open source is changing the data center.
Ken Patchett, Facebook
Ken is responsible for Facebook’s data center operations in the Western Region, including the company's facilities in Prineville, Oregon, and Altoona, Iowa. Altoona is Facebook’s fourth owned and operated data center and is built to specifications developed as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP). Prior to joining Facebook in 2010, Ken established data centers for Google across the United States and Asia. His career has spanned several industries, from mechanical engineering at a pulp paper manufacturer, to rising through the ranks of Compaq and Microsoft, where he initiated its network operations team, including security management, routing, switching, and content networking technologies.
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author = {Ken Patchett},
title = {Open Compute Project and the Changing Data Center},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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