Modern Infrastructure: The Convergence of Network, Compute, and Data

The three pillars of our industry are network, compute, and data. All trends come down to the convergence of these. The convergence of network and compute resulted in the "the network is the computer"; the convergence of network and data spawned the entire networked storage industry and now we believe we're in the technology push where we are converging compute and data. At Joyent, we were able to take a fresh look at the idea of building a datacenter as if it were a single appliance, we took a storage-centric and "software defined everything but always offload to hardware when you can" approach, and we're intending to do everything in the open. In this talk, we'll cover the philosophical basis, the overall architecture, and the deep details of a holistic datacenter implementation.