Web Video of Jonathan Schwartz's Keynote At Oracle Openworld

Jonathan Schwartz delivered a keynote talk, "The Next Wave: Looking Over the IT Horizon", at Oracle OpenWorld 2007. The audio and video, in several formats, of his talk and a PDF of hi s slides are also available on the OpenWorld site. Some of the points raised by Jonathan and Rich Green:

• new consumers/content/devices/service on the network create demands on the IT infrastructure that are opportunities for Sun
• grown in the network creates demands for new innovations
• developers join communities and they like free and open source s/w as they tend not to buy much s/w
  
• The Solaris and Java communities are large and adoption is expanding
• The Java Virtual Machine is clearly one of the most successful virtualiztion products of all time
  
• As the cost power continues to increase, the cost of a service is now less that the cost of the power that server will consume
  
• Last year at Oracle OpenWorld Sun announced project blackbox, "the World's first virtual datacenter"
• UltraSPARC T1 hep Sun create a business with a run rate of more that $100m/quarter
• The new UltraSPARC T2
  
• 8 threads, 8 cores = 64 O/S instances on a single chio
• Word's most energy efficient CPU
• Great for runnings/consolidating Oracle Instances
  
• Built in xVM
• Complexity and cost of management is growing
  
• ZFS provides value as it virtualizes storages, leverages commodity disks and eliminates RAID cards and volume managers
  
• "Thumper" - a general purpose computer as the controller for a storage device. With ZFS, manage 24 (soon 48) Tb with ease. With the lustre file system, many Thumpers can be chained together into very, very large filesystems.
• Run the database on the storage devices at less that $2/Gb
• Free software distributed over the web allows people all around the world to use Sun technology without Sun being involved
• Most people who download and use Solaris are not using Sun hardware
• Created and opportunity for Sun to work with other vendor who see that customers want Solaris on other platforms - hence Intel, Microsoft and IBM deals with Sun this year
• e.g. Microsoft will support Solaris under Windows virtualization and Sun will support Windows under Solaris virtualization
• Who else could Sun work with?
• Dell
• 1/3 of people downloading Solaris use Dell servers
• Sun xVM is Sun's open Virtualization strategy
• Data center challenges include massive scale, extreme cost pressure, eco-responsibility, convergence, unpredictable demand, need for flexibility and choice
• Sun xVM: Sun xVM Server & Sun xVM Ops Center
• Sun xVM Server
• Hypervisor family
• Consolidates Windows, Linux and Solaris
• Leverages technologies like ZFS, "self healing" FMA, DTrace, Network virtualizition to the benefit of the guest operating systems
• Based on Xen and OpenSolaris communities
  
• Sun xVM Ops Center
• Physical and virtual resource management
• Manage thousands of hardware and software entities
• Provision from firmware to hypervisor, O/S and apps
• Automated patching
• Compliance reporting
  
• Wide range of partners support Sun xVM and more that 1000 systems
  
• Open xVM Community http://openxVM.org
• GPLv3