LinkedIn now joins other internet cloud giants like Google, Facebook, eBay, and Yahoo by recently opening its first hyperscale facility in colo services provider Infomart’s new Hillsboro, OR data center.

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Former Facebook hardware engineer, Yuval Bachar, now LinkedIn’s principal engineer for global infrastructure architecture and strategy, describes the challenges his team experienced on an eight-month, open-source journey to “take our data center (design) through a transformation” to bring the new hyperscale facility online in a keynote presentation at DCD Webscale, July 19-20 at the San Jose Convention Center. 

He will discuss LinkedIn’s plans to transfer the full-stack, open-source architecture to its other data center locations in Texas, Virginia and California, and their new international expansion to Singapore.

“This keynote gives us a chance to further explore an accelerating trend toward by-passing traditional IT OEM hardware vendors,” says Bruce Taylor, DatacenterDynamics EVP, “and, instead, either procuring open-source designed, white-box hardware from a fast-growing ODM ecosystem, or designing their own based on Open Compute Project standard templates.” 

Open-source and the rapid evolution of the data center

“Yuval Bachar speaks directly to the business-need-driven pace of change in IT and data center transformation,” says George Rockett, DCD CEO and co-founder. “There are so many aspects to this development that are fascinating. First, it’s in a colo facility sited and designed for very low TCO, very high efficiency, very low carbon footprint, and very high domestic and trans-Pacific interconnection capacity. Second, it deploys very fast homegrown 100Gigabit (Pigeon) network switches and fabric architecture, very high density 96-server cabinets, 18kW growing to 32kW … the list goes on.”

Other speakers contributing to the conference program include: Patrick Flynn - Director of Sustainability at Salesforce, Scott Noteboom - CEO at LitBit, Harmail Chatha – Global Data Center Operations at Groupon and Mike Kail – Chief Innovation Officer at Cybric.

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