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The Data Center is Changing: Are You Ready?

Published: April 21, 2022, 7 p.m.

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The Data Center is changing, becoming more virtual, fungible, ephemeral... a whole load of adjectives that describe flexible infrastructure, whether delivered via the public cloud, an on-prem consumption-based model, or even a hyper-scale data center provider like Equinix, and its Equnix Metal offerings.

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Matt & Steve are joined by an expert in this field, Zac Smith. Zac is the co-founder of Packet, and the current head of Edge and Metal Infrastructure at Equinix.

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There isn't much talk about Equinix -- this conversation quickly focuses on how data center architecture is evolving, embracing various alternate consumption models. Cloud, hosted, consuption-based, and other emergent models are supplementing and, in many cases, replacing traditional on-prem infrastructure.

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This is one you don't want to miss.

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00:00 Fade In.
\\n01:00 Introducing Zac Smith
\\n02:00 Zac's different thinking about the data center world and the founding of Packet
\\n05:37 Shifting, often generational, views of data center and workload management
\\n07:15 It's all about the workload: why servers may not ever fully commodtize
\\n09:35 Where do providers like Equinix fit in data center architecture?
\\n16:09 The Rise of ARM-based processors in the data center
\\n20:08 What IT customers are choosing the ARM path, and why?
\\n24:05 Open compute initiatives, and the Linux Foundation's Open19 Project
\\n31:30 The Sustainabilty Impact
\\n35:55 Consumption-based infrastructure's place in data center architecture
\\n39:08 Fade to black.

Special Guest: Zac Smith.

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