 From San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering OCP US Summit 2016, brought to you by OCP. Now your host, Jeff Frick and Stu Miniman. Hey, welcome everybody, I'm Jeff Frick. We are live in San Jose, California at the Open Compute Project Summit 2016. They used to have names, four, five, six. Now we just go with the year, which is a lot easier, it was off by years. Our third year being here, and this is really where the cloud is. As you see on bumper stickers and stuff, the cloud is somebody else's computer. Well, these are the big computers, big iron, big servers that are running and actually create the cloud in which all the applications and the infrastructure and the mobile and the social and the data, the big data all run on. So without things like OCP and the infrastructure, there is no cloud. So we're really excited to be here for our third year in a row. I'm my guest host for the next couple of days is Stu Miniman. Stu, welcome. Hey, Jeff, thanks, I'm so excited to be here. I've watched this OCP initiative since it kicked off, but it's the first time I actually got to fly across the country for this event. As you said, the cloud, it's got hardware in it and there's so many of the cloud shows we go that people kind of look down and they say, oh, there's those server huggers there. Well, we're talking about distributed systems, disaggregation of hardware and software and really what's happening in hyperscale environments. So proud to be a server hugger. We've got the Facebook booth right behind us here and boy, there was a crowd this morning of people looking at these little cubbies they call them that they put these things in. Some really creative and interesting thing to drive efficiencies higher, really help the economics. And Facebook said that they've saved several billions of dollars in efficiencies and costs in the five years that they're doing it. So really exciting stuff, lots of networking, lots of compute, storage, infrastructure, where hardware lives and the relevance of it, this is the epicenter of that. Yeah, if you like to geek out and you like to grab things while you geek out, this is really the place to be as you walk around. All the major players are here and we'd like to have a special shout out to our sponsors. Without our sponsors, we couldn't come to these events and really bring you the signal from the noise. So big thanks to the Pika8, to Micron and to Melanox for sponsoring theCUBE to be here at OCP for our third consecutive year. So thank you very much. So Stu, a lot of hardware, a lot of the iron, you sat through the keynotes, you're dressed in your open source garb, good to see a little Silicon Valley thing going on. What'd you think of the keynotes? What are some of your key takeaways? First of all, definitely wanted to say thank you to the Open Compute Foundation for helping bring us here, that's a big piece of it. Lots of keynotes, lots of announcements. Microsoft, really big presence here. Of course, Azure's front and center. One of the biggest news pieces that I saw that was kind of new is that Google has now joined Open Compute. So I was talking to some people here on the show floor, they were like, wow, you've got Facebook, you've got Microsoft now, you've got Google. You know, hey, I wonder what Amazon's doing when they think about this. So Intel said that, I think it was like, what is it, 70, 80% of all systems in the future, like 10 years out from now, will be deployed in some kind of, that are deployed, are going to be in large data centers and OCP is a major part of that. So Stu, how does, we know how open source software works. How does open source hardware work? What's kind of, you know, we do OpenStack, we've done OpenStack for years, we were talking about a little bit before we went on there, it's all about the software. But how does open source hardware actually work and execute? Yeah, that's a great question, Jeff. So let's rewind and say, why OCP and why are we here? So Facebook was growing it to such massive scales, they've now got over a billion users on a monthly basis and they were growing back in the days when this started, it was photos were at the killer app. Now they're doing videos, I think that Facebook said they're doing, what was it? Definitely hundreds of millions of hours of video, they can have over a million concurrent users watching a live video at a time and that puts a real strain on infrastructure. So what Facebook said is, we've got all of these special things that we're doing to help the efficiency and help what we're doing. If we look forward, we can't maintain this, our core business isn't in building scalable infrastructure, so what do they do? They say, well, there's other companies that want to leverage what we're doing and participate to let's open the Kimono and say, here's what we're doing, here's the designs we have and wouldn't it be great if other people started contributing and started leveraging it? So first, look at basic economies of scale, Jeff. If Facebook can double the amount of people that are using the kind of Facebook design, their suppliers from the economy of scale will be able to give it to Facebook cheaper. So that's really straightforward, but as new companies come forth with new innovations, Microsoft introduced a chassis design, Google came forth with some interesting DC power enhancements that they were doing in their environments and there's literally hundreds of companies now involved in this effort and a nice expo hall here of all these companies that make components and make systems, putting them together. So to give you one other example of news that came out this week, Facebook talked about the network switches that they're doing, it's called wedge and Equinix has said that they're going to use wedge. So Equinix of course, one of those companies that has over 100 data centers around the world, very large environments and they direct connect to the Azure's and Amazon's of the world. So if they start using the switch as a standard, that's going to really drive broad adoption through the cloud ecosystem, allow cloud internet connection and what's going there. So open source allows other people to leverage it, help the economy of scale, more people contribute to it and it's really that virtuous cycle and it's open source, so it's a little bit different that it's not just a code base, but there's the designs and we build off of it and make future generations. So that's where they're taking it. Yeah, there's so many places to go. I'm looking forward to two days of coverage with you Stu. I've got our first guest keyed up ready to go and as you said, Intel, Platinum sponsor along with Facebook. So down to the component level, all about data centers, any of the stock reports, a lot of the infrastructure companies are getting huge growth in their data center and business. It's really continues to grow. It's really powering the internet, powering the cloud and we're here, we're right at the center of the epicenter of it. So we will be back with our first guest after this short break. This is Stu Miniman, I'm Jeff Frick, we are live in San Jose, California, the San Jose Convention Center at Open Compute Project Summit 2016. Be right back with our next guest.