Conference Information

Server Design Summit is the only event focused entirely on the $40 billion server market. And it is the first event to deal with “Bringing Servers into the Cloud Computing Era”.

It will cover such key emerging topics as virtualization and consolidation, cloud computing, green design and energy saving methods, solid state drives, open specifications and standards, blade and appliance servers, high-performance servers, power and cooling, and low-latency and high-availability applications.

The Server Design Summit focuses on the design of next-generation servers ranging from simple blades to powerful high-end systems. Servers have the primary function of managing data transfers rather than actual computing. They generally operate in large racks in data centers. Problems include load balancing, power dissipation, consolidation, and expansion. Current issues include designing for virtualization and cloud computing, reducing power consumption, managing large numbers of servers (server farms), increasing throughput and performance, and bundling of servers, interfaces, and software into unified architectures. Other issues include the use of advanced interfaces and storage devices such as 10/40/100GbE, InfiniBand, NAS, SAN, and solid state drives.

Why Should YOU Attend the Server Design Summit

• reduce server costs
• save space in data centers
• reduce server power consumption
• allow for easier expansion of centers
• simplify maintenance
• reduce storage costs
• solve cooling problems in data centers
• consolidate servers
• consolidate data centers
• automate server management
• reduce administrative overhead
• identify interoperability issues
• learn about server standards

Market Size

$10.4 billion in Q3 2009 (IDC, December 2009).

Company standings:
Overall: IBM, 31.8%, HP 30.9%, Dell, 13.5%, Sun 7.5%, Fujitsu 5.7%
Unix: IBM, 39.5%, HP, 29.2%

Power and cooling spending will rise to 40% of total data center spending by 2010. (Imex Research)

“…virtualization server penetration of total server shipments will rise at a CAGR of 18.8 percent during the period from 2008 to 2013.” – Peter Lin, iSuppli, November 2009

Program

The Server Design Summit program will provide attendees with practical information on the current state of servers and their hardware, software, applications, management, and operation. It consists of three full-day workshops:

• Energy-Efficient Servers and Datacenters
• Increasing Server Performance
• Servers for Cloud Computing

Intended Audience:

What the experts are saying about Servers

“A rack of blade servers can generate as much as 14 kilowatts, nearly the heat given off by two electric ovens.” – Walter Schwarz, Fluent

“Google engineers have already warned their bosses that the cost of the electricity needed to run the company’s servers will soon be a lot greater than the actual purchase price of the servers.” – Michael Vizard, Ziff-Davis Enterprise Technology Group

“Future fabric-based servers will treat memory, processors and I/O cards as components in a pool, combining and recombining them into particular arrangements to suit the owner’s needs.” – Carl Claunch, Gartner, 12/09

“I see more redundancy to the point where there are really no single points of failure in a system,” – Dan Olds, Gabriel Colnsulting Group, November 2009.

“The future of servers is clearly virtualization and the requirements they place on storage systems is similar to that of mainframe servers. Now there are 5 or more applications running on the same server platform and I/O load has increased in proportion. Also when storage is not available more applications are affected. This type of workload requires monolithic storage that can scale up as well as out and provide the performance, availability, and scalability required for virtual server environments. Simply put a cluster of modular storage systems won’t be able to hack it.” – Hu Yoshida, Hitachi Data Systems, October 2009

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