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Networking The Cloud
Albert Greenberg
Principal Researcher
albert@microsoft.com
(work with James Hamilton, Srikanth Kandula, Dave Maltz, Parveen
Patel, Sudipta Sengupta, Changhoon Kim)
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Agenda
· Data Center Costs
­ Importance of Agility
· Today's Data Center Network
· A Better Way?
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Data Center Costs
· Total cost varies
­ Upwards of $1/4 B for mega data center
­ Server costs dominate
­ Network costs significant

Source: Akella, Aditya - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences