• Google is on track to spend $10 billion on building data centers for it’s cloud infrastructure. It has pioneered many of the technologies that help make distributed computing possible, from services like MapReduce and Spanner to rolling out a software defined network that will change the features and economics of offering a public cloud. In this talk, Urs Hölzle, the man behind Google’s infrastructure, will discuss the next generation infrastructure challenges.

    Speaker

    Urs Hölzle — SVP, Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow, Google

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom

    About the Speaker

    SVP, Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow

    Urs Hölzle is Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure & a Google Fellow. More…

    About the Moderator

    Gigaom
    Senior Writer

    Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for Gigaom since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on More…