Building Next-Generation Data Center - Spring 2018 Session

Russ White started the 2018 course with a presentation on a topic that should be mandatory for anyone claiming to be a network designer or architect: understanding and managing network complexity.

In his May 2018 presentation, Chris Wahl provided a wonderful overview of server virtualization, hypervisor market, automated data center operations, and sizing of virtual workloads, ending with a few practical guidelines on working across enterprise silos.

Data Center infrastructure design is rarely a purely technical challenge. In many cases you have to work with your end-customers (application developers), help them understand the technology limitations, and adapt your ideas to their needs. Your challenges will be even more interesting when you encounter a culture clash, for example between traditional operations and DevOps-focused developers.

In her presentation, Michele Chubirka briefly explained the concepts behind familiar buzzwords like Waterfall, Agile and DevOps, and then described how you could run secure and reliable infrastructure in DevOps environment.

Ed Horley helps you plan the next few months after your boss tells you to move your data center to AWS cloud.