Internet-Scale Storage
James Hamilton (VP and Distinguished Engineer, Amazon Web Services)
CSE Distinguished Lecture Series
Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 3:30pm
EEB-105
Abstract
The pace of innovation in data center design has been rapidly accelerating over the last 5 years, driven by the mega-service operators. In this talk, we'll take apart a high-scale cloud service data center, looking at power distribution from high voltage to the server, compute and storage, networking, and cooling costs on the belief that understanding what drives cost helps us understand where the most valuable research solutions might lie. We'll look at the some of the fundamental technology limits that will be influencing storage and database solutions over the next few years on the belief that, at scale, these limits will constrain the solutions that are practical.
And we'll look at some of the existing solutions on since they form the foundation on which better solutions can be built.
Bio:
James is VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services where he focuses on infrastructure efficiency, reliability, and scaling. Prior to AWS, James has held leadership roles on several high-scale products and services including Windows Live, Exchange Hosted Services, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2. James loves all things server related and is interested in optimizing all components from data center power and cooling infrastructure, through server design, and the distributed software systems they host. He maintains a blog on high scale services at James Hamilton's blog.