QCT hosted Silicon Valley’s first Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Conference, held at QCT’s US Solution Center in San Jose, on October 6. The invitation-only event brought together leading IT hardware and software giants to showcase a full spectrum of HCI technologies and practices that are trailblazing this next new IT frontier. Speakers at the event included:
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- Canonical: Mark Shuttleworth, Chairman
- Hedvig: Avinash Lakshman, CEO and founder
- Intel: Diane Bryant, executive vice president and general manager, Data Center Group
- Lite-On: Victor Lee, president, Power Systems Solution
- Microsoft: Erin Chapple, general manager, Global Windows Server & Services Management
- Open Compute Foundation: Rocky Bullock, CFO/Interim CEO
- OpenStack Foundation: Jonathan Bryce, executive director
- QCT: Mike Yang, president
- Red Hat: Darrell Jordan-Smith, vice president, Worldwide Telecom Service Provider Sales
- Seagate: Raj Rajagopalan, vice president, Cloud and Hyperscale Segment
- VMware: Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president and chief technology officer
In addition, breakout sessions were led by experts from Canonical, Cloudian, CoreOS, Hedvig, Intel, Lintes, Mesosphere, Microsoft, Midokura, Mirantis, PLUMgrid, QCT, Red Hat, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba and VMware.
The event’s theme was “Open, Ready, Transformative,” with keynotes, demos, and breakouts dedicated to the theme of hyperconvergence, an approach to cloud datacenter architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage and networking resources into a single, easily deployable and scalable rack-level system. Hyperconverged solutions offer the benefits of speed, efficiency, ease of use, scalability and significant cost savings.
The event was held as trends like the Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly driving the deployment of billions of connected devices running millions of services, all hosted on thousands of clouds. This transformation is unlike previous technology shifts in IT. New business opportunities emerge as a new generation of digital-first, cloud-first consumers enter the market, consumers that expect digital services to be fast, innovative and available everywhere.
This transformation is happening not only among high-profile, web-first companies. Rather, it’s affecting every industry. The HCI Conference examined how businesses use HCI to support increasingly intelligent algorithms to enable smart machines and systems, automating more services and supporting businesses in delivering differentiated customer experiences.