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16–17 Sept 2015
Holiday Inn Royal Victoria - Sheffield
Europe/London timezone

Google datacentre networking

17 Sept 2015, 09:30
30m
Holiday Inn Royal Victoria - Sheffield

Holiday Inn Royal Victoria - Sheffield

Victoria Station Road, Sheffield, S4 7YE
Main Session

Speaker

Mr Sykes Phil (Google)

Description

A look inside four generations of Google's datacentre network A presentation of 10 years of evolution of warehouse-scale datacenters at Google, and some tales from the SDN coalface.

Summary

A look into our home-made hardware, software, our motivations for building gigantic datacentres and some of the challenges of operating giant DC fabrics.

You can see Amin Vahdat present a similar talk at ONS 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w , and more technical details from the forthcoming SIGCOMM paper (see http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/papers.php #38 -- publicly available ~August 9th).

Primary author

Mr Sykes Phil (Google)

Presentation materials