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The Open Performance Grid (OPG)

Announced at

San Francisco 7/15 | Singapore 9/15 | Chicago 10/15 | London 11/15

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Advisory Panel

The Open Performance Grid (OPG) measures openness, performance, and leadership of

hardware, software, and designs for modern data centers.

The OPG is a joint effort

The OPG is also a community effort

with input from: – Technology Users & Buyers

– Technology Analysts & Researchers

– Technology Provider Self-assessments

Why Open Matters

* Community development fosters innovation

* Security and support options increase

* Open architecture prevents single vendor lock-in

* Open, competitive markets benefit buyers

* Open standards enable market hypergrowth

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Open Orgs & Stuff

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And Now It's Time

to Measure All This

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Sample Grig

Open

Not Open

Developing Emerging Leading

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Measures of openness

Sample Measures of Openness

– Is the product in open-source form

– Is there a foundation?

– Are there one or a few dominant members?

– Size/activity of community

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Leadership

Sample Leadership Measures

– Measured by community

– Discussed by analyst panel

– Market share

– Global presence

– Benchmarking/Performance

– Innovation curve

Software Categories

Operating Systems

Virtualization

Containers

PaaS

IaaS services and stacks

Monitoring/Analytics

Management Consoles

Software-defined networking

Software-defined storage

Hardware Categories

Chips

Boards

Blades

Storage

Connectivity

Data Center Designs

Worldwide Data Growth

Meanwhile...back at the data center

Current data center usage 11.7 gigawatts

~2% of total US usage

But remember our chart?

2.6 ZB to 5.2ZB in three years

By 2040 = 2^8 = 256X today's data flow!

Announcing...

The Yottabyte Age

Global Economy - 2015

Population 7.3 billionGDP $74 trillion

Electricity Use 2.3 Terawatts

Region Pop Usage

Developed 18% 47%

Developing 63% 28%

China 19% 25%

Global Economy - 2040

Population 9 billion(~0.9% annual growth rate – total growth 23%))

GDP $150 trillion+(inc. population growth & 3% annual per capita growth)

Electricity Use 4.6 Terawatts

= 2.3 terawatts or 2,300 gigawatts new power= 2,300 new plants of 1,000 megawatts

@$4 billion per plant

= $9.2 trillion in new investment

Global Economy - 2040

Population 9 billion(~0.9% annual growth rate – total growth 23%)

Let's assume

* Developed world population grows 0.5% annually & consumption flat

* China population growth flat & consumption doubles

* Developing world population grows 1.1% annually & consumption triples

Electricity use = 4.8 terawatts

But 2.3 terawatts must be supplied to developing world

Will the world devote $9.2 trillion to the developing worldfor electricity development alone?

Even so, that would only bring it to 10-15% of developed world per capita usage

Year 2015 2040

Region Pop Usage Pop Usage

Developed 18% 47% 16% 25%

Developing 63% 28% 68% 48%

China 19% 25% 16% 27%

* Precise calculations of what percentage of global power consumption data centers will demand – and what percentage of global economics data centers and the data they handle will drive – are complex.

* The widely divergent state of existing national IT infrastructures illustrate the point...

Plot of National IT Infrastructures

1. Members of the global technology community must seriously address the issues of power consumption and overall efficiency.

2. Open technology is the way to address these issues.

3. The OPG is a way to assess, measure, and encourage progress with respect to these issues.

4. Community input is encouraged and essential.

Summary Statement

Next Steps– Input from Users & Buyers – December 2015

– Create Analyst Panel – December 2015

– Complete the Evaluation Methodology - January 2016

– Release Initial Results – March 2016

Ongoing- Develop list of community members and contributors

- Work with technology companies on private self-assessments

- Support Stacking IT worldwide

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Cole CrawfordVapor.io

Bruce TaylorDataCenterDynamics

OPG Leadership Group

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Roger StrukhoffTau institute

Rebecca WantaPCIG

Julius AkinyemiMIT Media Lab

Contact Info

Join Our List!Www.TauInstitute.org/OPG

Email

Roger Strukhoff rstrukhoff@tauinstitute.org

Cole Crawford cole@vapor.io

Bruce Taylor btaylor@datacenterdynamics.com