The keynotes on Wednesday morning were good. As a group, they were the best set of the three keynote sessions.
It started off with a nice panel discussion on public cloud issues. The panelists were all from companies that provide public cloud services. They talked about how the industry is still in it's infancy. The likened public clouds to other new IT ideas. At first there are not a lot standards on how things are done, but over time the industry settles down and it is lot easier to move from one vendor to another. There was some discussion of the Amazon outage. Those who wrote their apps with the cloud in mind did much better than those that didn't.
Intel did a presentation that emphasized how quickly they are pushing the processing power of cpu chips which is allowing things to be done with computers that could not be done before. They also talked a lot about what they are doing to save energy. 85% of the power they use in their own facilities comes from wind or solar power! Pretty impressive. Here's a couple of facts they threw out:
- 150 Exabytes of data were sent through the Internet from it's beginnings in the 1970s through the end of 2009. In 2010 alone, 245 Exabytes of data was sent! Exponential growth.
- Data Centers in the United States consume 2% of the total electricity used.
Avaya did a nice presentation on what can be done with unified communications. It sort of reminded me of the Apple Knowledge Navigator piece from years ago, but they were demoing stuff that is available from them today. Pretty impressive. They even have an iPad client for their unified communications system.
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