Flash Memory Summit, Western Digital Keynote Live Blog
by Ian Cutress & Billy Tallis on August 7, 2018 3:18 PM EST03:20PM EDT - Second Keynote for us: Western Digital
03:20PM EDT - These keynotes are thick and fast
03:20PM EDT - Unfortunately they turned the lights on which makes photos of the screens pretty bad
03:21PM EDT - I think someone leaned on the switch and no-one is senior enough to tell someone to turn them off
03:21PM EDT - Talk is called 'The Future of Data Infrastructure'
03:22PM EDT - Phil Bullinger
03:22PM EDT - SVP and GM of Datacenter Systems
03:24PM EDT - Economy is becoming data driven
03:26PM EDT - Moving from records, to communications, to efficiency, to currency
03:26PM EDT - Developed in richness and value
03:26PM EDT - Data is two main things: Big Data and Fast Data
03:26PM EDT - Not just buzzwords, but actual workloads
03:27PM EDT - This is driving a lot of the data processing and infrastructure
03:27PM EDT - The final word is precision
03:28PM EDT - Data Interaction has changed, to create, deliver, transform, and access
03:29PM EDT - Data is pooled and shared by multiple applications
03:29PM EDT - Dynamic workloads are increasing
03:30PM EDT - 45% of compute resources are unused, but 70% report inefficiencies in their storage resources
03:31PM EDT - Demands are around data infrastructure: Scalability, Efficiency, Agility, Performance
03:31PM EDT - Critical to raise efficiency in the datacenter
03:33PM EDT - The future is the Data Infrastructre Revolution
03:34PM EDT - Moving from Converged infrastructure to Composable Infrastructure
03:35PM EDT - Disaggregated compute and storage resources to scale with requirements
03:35PM EDT - Taking the next tep is key
03:36PM EDT - Software infrastructures allows for indepdent resources tiers
03:36PM EDT - Erases the physicality of the barriers between resources
03:36PM EDT - By relying on a fabric environment
03:37PM EDT - 'A very robust solution'
03:37PM EDT - The net takeaway, WD believes that economic advantages are very real
03:37PM EDT - ~50% savings in CapEX, 40% lower TCO verse hyperconverged
03:38PM EDT - WD's vision is built on four pillars: Open Standards, Scalable, Disaggregated, Extensible
03:38PM EDT - Define and refine both software APIs and hardware
03:39PM EDT - Opening up the hardware form factor
03:40PM EDT - Get to a model where resources are physically separate for scalability
03:41PM EDT - systems are composed between a data fabric and a memory fabric
03:41PM EDT - peers come together, no discrete systems
03:41PM EDT - The new 'fabric' device
03:42PM EDT - Controllers speak to a network, not to a host
03:42PM EDT - Fabric-focused systems
03:42PM EDT - Fabric endpoints should be simple devices, and peers of each other
03:43PM EDT - Mix and match
03:44PM EDT - Today introducing OpenFLEX
03:44PM EDT - https://www.anandtech.com/show/13180/western-digital-announces-openflex-architecture-and-nvmeof-storage-devices
03:44PM EDT - A new range of fabric devices
03:45PM EDT - F3000 device and E3000 enclosure - high perf, low latency for fast data: AI, real time analytics, IoT
03:45PM EDT - D3000 Fabric Device: High capacity for big data, batch analytics, machine learning, predictive modeling
03:46PM EDT - Demonstrated on the show floor at the show
03:46PM EDT - 'Don't think about these as a JBOD'
03:46PM EDT - Openflex management API
03:46PM EDT - New API called Kingfish
03:47PM EDT - orchestrating fabric devices as fabric devices
03:47PM EDT - Working with industry to make this an open API to create simplicity at scale
03:47PM EDT - A critical part of the strategy
03:48PM EDT - WD creating their own orchestration layer software
03:48PM EDT - Creating new instances in seconds, optimizing to the unique needs of an application or workload. Built on kingfish
03:49PM EDT - WD OpenFlex: 'committed to an open approach, positioned to accelerate market adoption'
03:49PM EDT - Demos at booth 207
03:50PM EDT - That's a wrap!
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