When it comes to cutting I/O cost, power, management and real estate requirements in blade servers, the ideal I/O solution is a single, unified I/O adapter that can provide required services for all data center traffic types – LAN, SAN and IPC. This is because blade server form factors by nature are limited on space, power and cost requirements. While I/O may be unified on the server using a high performance converged I/O adapter, the demands on the LAN and SAN infrastructure sides of the data center are different. Ethernet and Fibre Channels will coexist in the infrastructure. Finally, there are issues around separation of management domains of the compute servers, LAN infrastructure and SAN infrastructure because they are managed by different groups and capacity scaling and budgetary cycles are independent of each other. All of the above make consolidation of I/O on the blade servers a daunting challenge.

This session presents blade server oriented I/O solutions that are flexible enough to support legacy I/O hardware and management requirements and provide for incremental upgrades to a high performance converged I/O adapter solution that delivers optimum LAN, SAN and IPC services on the server, while maintaining end to end connectivity to Ethernet LANs and Fibre Channel SANs, and separation of management where compute, LAN and SAN capacity can be scaled independently.

 

Speaker Bio: Sujal Das specializes in product management and new market strategies for networking and semiconductor companies. Over a span of 15 years, he has held senior level technical and management roles in companies such as Unisys, AMD, Marvell Semiconductor, and Mellanox Technologies. Sujal has driven internal development initiatives and external alliances to grow business for these companies into adjacent and new consumer and data center networking markets. Currently, Sujal is director of product management at Mellanox Technologies where he is responsible for driving the company's products into mainstream and virtualized server and storage connectivity markets. Sujal has a BS EE from BITS, Pilani, India and MBA from Santa Clara University, California.

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Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions. This explosive growth in SOA technology is in response to a global demand--IDC estimates that spending on SOA services alone will grow from $8.6 billion to more than $33 billion by 2010.

 

SOA World Conference & Expo
SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 brings together the best minds in the business to San Francisco for a two-day conference that offers comprehensive coverage of SOA and what it means to enterprise IT today. As Zapthink analyst Jason Bloomberg has noted, "SOA involves rethinking how the business leverages IT in many various ways." Attend SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West and learn from more than 100 speakers about how SOA is transforming business--and the way IT and business managers think about their businesses, processes, and technology.

Virtualization Conference & Expo
The colocation of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West and Virtualization Conference & Expo delivers the most relevant content to IT and business. Conference attendees will be able to choose from four great tracks at this year's event. Mix and match all you want, or slot into your favorite topic for the duration! The tracks include:

 

• Web 2.0/AJAX and SOA

• Interop Standards and Services

• Real-World SOA

• SOA Technology

• Virtualization

• Specially Selected Hot Topics

 

This year's conference will also feature two Power Panels. Don't miss the SOA/Web 2.0/AJAX Power Panel, and Virtualization Power Panel. The Power Panels are FREE to all attendees, and will be recorded for broadcast by SYS-CON.TV.

 

The best news for this year's conference delegates is that the "Golden Pass" registration now provides full access to all conference sessions.