 Hi, this is Stu Miniman with wikibond.org, here at the Home Office in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and this is a breaking analysis of the Open Compute Summit 5, which was held this week in San Jose, California. It's for those that don't know, Open Compute is an initiative that Facebook started, really looking at changing the infrastructure, both the hardware, the data center, and all the pieces of the environment in the data center. It's interesting to see it sponsored by Facebook because not a company that you usually think of as an infrastructure company, but they are kind of letting this open source initiative in this project, which is now owned by the Open Compute project, drive this forward. So at the event, we had live coverage from the Cube, as well as we were keeping a close eye on the news and the main stage. For myself, it's the second year that I've been keeping a close eye on this project. As we look at drastic changes happening in the hardware, the software, the infrastructure, it's really kind of a hot trend and one to keep a close eye on. For me, it was kind of interesting to see Mark Zuckerberg standing on stage with Tim O'Reilly, just really talking to all of these hardware geeks and how open source is taking on. When I compare last year to this year, I look at last year, this project was really kind of new and being rolled out and there were a lot of things about how Facebook is doing things and some of the challenge in the industry and today we're really seeing some real products out there. So if we look at the first piece, the hardware and the servers, which is the first component of Open Compute, there are now plenty of servers available now following the Open Compute architecture. A number of what are known as the ODMs or many of these Taiwanese companies that traditionally made hardware for the OEMs like Dell and HP and the like and IBM, now going direct to some of the large companies and some of the web companies to be able to make designs and Open Compute gives them a design factor that is built for scalability, low cost, and low energy and starting to see companies like Quanta and others that are emerging from this industry reports have shown that these ODMs are now at about 12% of the overall shipments which is quite sizable when you think about how many years the traditional vendors have been out there. There were new networking cards that were announced this week. Two that I'll point out is, first of all, Q-Logic announced a fiber channel adapter. It's the first and only fiber channel adapter for OCP servers and it's a partnership with Quanta and this is important to be able to get into large scale environments, especially going beyond the Googles and Facebooks of the world, but as large banks and other very large enterprises want to adopt this, fiber channel is trusted and used in these environments and so Q-Logic obviously being the market leader in this space can transition into this environment. The overall server design as well as the adapter design is shown to be 38% more energy efficient and 24% lower cost than the same kind of non-OCP version of this environment. Melanox also released a network adapter or NIC for this environment, so whether you want fiber channel, whether you want Ethernet, you now have low cost options that go into these environments. Everything was a big focus actually of the show this year, a big expansion to kind of go into that piece of the environment since the server and the storage had mostly been specced out and starting to see designs for them. On the networking standpoint, one of the big news stories was that Dell announced that they will allow a third party operating system to go on their own hardware and Cumulus is the first operating system, so Cumulus Linux will be able to be used on a Dell server, so it's not just changing the hardware, but the software that's going to manage all of the pieces of the infrastructure are very important for what's going on in this environment and it's really the first partnership that Cumulus has with a large technology provider, so Dell gives them a channel to be able to reach into. It's interesting to see which players kind of jump in on the open compute environment because if we talk about changing hardware, it obviously is going to have a big impact on the software side and it was big news that Microsoft actually has donated a modular server design that they put together to open compute. Now of course Microsoft is not typically thought of as a hardware company other than what they do for surface, but Microsoft had come out with this design that applied for patent and they're donating that to open compute, so if I want things like Office 365 and everything else that's going to go on Azure, I think Microsoft wants to make sure that they can take advantage of these cost savings that open compute is going to drive just like Facebook is going to. Beyond just some of the physical components, another really important topic that got discussed at the show was the data center itself. We've been talking a lot about the software to find data center and software to find storage and software to find networking, but there hasn't been as much discussion about the data center itself and of course these large data centers especially like Google and Microsoft and Amazon really need to drive efficiency, so Facebook talked about how they have their power efficiency or PUE of the data centers that they can build are extremely low and we heard George Schlesman, actually the CEO of IO.com talking about how there are new options available for both service providers and large companies to be able to take advantage of the efforts going on at OCP and in the industry to build new data centers and really a question for people is there are all these new technologies, but why would I put them in my data center? Wikibon CTO and co-founder David Floyer actually made the statement on video that if you're building a new data center, don't do it yourself and if you have an existing data center, don't add to it because there are others that can do them at much higher efficiencies and much save a lot of power and save a lot of money. There were examples even that Facebook is in some ways getting into some of the renewable energy play to be able to build data centers whether it be solar or using other methods and we've also seen that in the industry that Google has become a player in this space as well as Amazon has a full data center that is powered mostly by renewable energies. So lots of changes going on on the infrastructure standpoint. OCP or open compute is a trend that we highly recommend that you keep an eye on especially the large companies that are looking to take advantage of some of the kind of lower cost hardware white box solutions where you're going to be putting hundreds of thousands of nodes where we can drive down those costs and the other piece is how OCP fits into open stack as an area to talk as open stack really drives the software component to the stack and all of those projects that go in open stack do have a good way to kind of merge in with open compute which is really focused on the infrastructure. So that's a quick rundown of some of the pieces going on at the show, really good progress over the last year and this area is moving quite fast. So this has been Stu Miniman from the Wikibon office. You can see us at wikibon.org. Find me on Twitter at STU. That's Stu and thank you for joining this time. We'll see you next time.