The document discusses the forces driving accelerated technological change and exponential growth. It notes that exponential technologies like networks, sensors, robotics, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence are converging in unexpected ways with massive implications. The history of communications technology from smoke signals to the modern 5G world is reviewed. The NEC DX2000 computing platform and shared accelerated flash storage solutions for telephony workloads are presented as enabling more genius, wealth concentration, and a potential world of abundance through exponential communication.
42. Smoke signals, whistles
Emissaries or messengers.
Postal Service
Telegraph
Homing Pigeons
BEFORE TELEPHONY
43. 1849 Antonio Meucci made a demonstration of
a device capable of transmitting voice to
Havana. In 1854 he made another in New York.
In 1860 the German Johann Phillip Reis builds a
kind of telephone based on the original idea by
Charles Bourseul
A couple of years later, Innocenzo Manzetti
builds the awaited “talking telegraph” that he
himself had invisioned in 1844, but wasn’t
interested in patenting it
Brief history: Mid-nineteenth
century
44. In 1871, Meucci filed a document of
“patent notice” but wasn’t able to finish the
process due to his economic condition
In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell managed
to patent a similar device and was the 1st
to do so
A few hours after Bell, another inventor
named Elisha Gray, also tried to patent a
similar invention. Bell and Gray enter a legal
battle that was ultimately won by Bell
Brief history: Mid-nineteenth
century
45. Bell tries to sell his patent to Western
Union, but they weren’t interested
Bell prospers on his own
In 1886, there were already 150,000
subscribers to the telephone service in
United States
At first Bell was exclusively the only
company to exploit the technology, due to
their patents
Brief history: Bell
prospers
46. In 1891, an “automatic” telephone was
invented that allowed users to dial directly
In 1947, scientists at Bell invented the
transistor, which changed the course of
human history. In 1948, they won the
Nobel Prize for their work
In the 1960’s, the first communication
satellites were launched and
communication between continents were
made easier
Brief history: Development of the
Technology
Sputnik 1
47. In 1889, NEC started manufacturing their
own telephones for the Japanese market
In 1899, Japan and United States signed
a revised treaty for manufacturing
phones for the US market
In 1903, NEC developed the
Switchboard, eliminating the need for a
permanent magnet generator in each
telephone.
In 1980, NEC created the first digital
signal processor, the NEC uPD7710
Brief history: Nippon Electric Company (NEC)
49. COMPUTE / NETWORK PLATFORM FOR TELEPHONY
OPTIMIZED IN-MEMORY PROCESSING DESIGN
SUPER HIGH DENSITY SOLUTION IN A BOX TO SAVE SPACE & ENERGY
EASY SCALE OUT
Wide depth Height Weight
448mm 732mm 130mm 48kg
Compute 14 Node – 34 Node
112 Cores – 272 Cores
896 GB RAM – 2,176 GB RAM
7 TB – 17 TB Internal Disk (SSD)
Network 2 X 40 GB redundant switches
Processor
Intel Processor
D-1541 (8C/16T)
Memory
DDR4SO-DIMM 64GB
Server module X1
DX2000
Compute Platform for Telephony
DX2000
50. Vender name
Type
Image
Other NEC
DX2000
Server size
1U 2nodes 3U 44nodes(max)
84nodes/ 42U rack (without
NWSW)
616nodes/ 42U rack
(with NWSW)
CPU
E3-1200v# family XeonD(4C,8C,16C)
84 CPUs/rack 616 CPUs/rack
Memory
Max 64GB/node Max 64GB/node
5,376GB/rack 38,784GB/rack
Storage Max 8 HDD/node( with RAID) SSD
Power Consumption -----
2694W(Actual)
44node
4C/16GB/512GB
1U
Half size
server?
NEC DX2000 have different design from usual IA server.
High density, low power consumption
53. MEANWHILE, IN THE OFFICE…
“3-minutes for that report?”
“Coffee while we re-boot?”
“Don’t know why the call quality is so bad”
“Another Dropped Call”
“It’s still loading the graphics…”
“Why did it only record half the coversation?”
57. INTRODUCING THE NEW
SHARED ACCELERATED STORAGE FOR EVERY WORKLOAD
RE-DEFINES
DENSE CONSOLIDATION
• 3PB EFFECTIVE IN 6U
• INDUSTRY’S BEST 10:1
AVERAGE TOTAL EFFICIENCY
(5:1 AVG. DATA REDUCTION)
• ALWAYS-ON QoS
RE-DEFINES
FAST
• 100% NVMe DIRECTFLASH™
ARCHITECTURE
• UP TO 2X FASTER THAN
PREVIOUS GENERATION AFAs
• AS LOW AS 250 µs LATENCY
…WITH FULL DATA SERVICES
RE-DEFINES
SIMPLICITY AT SCALE
• 99.9999% AVAILABILITY
• FULL SOFTWARE SERVICES BUILT-
IN
• API AUTOMATION &
AI-DRIVEN CLOUD MANAGEMENT
ALWAYS
EVERGREEN™
• MIX NVMe & SATA
• UPGRADE ONLINE FROM
ANY FLASHARRAY
• NVMe-oF &
FUTURE MEDIA READY
NOTES: All performance comparisons “up to”. //M70 running Purity version at GA used to represent “Previous Generation AFAs”, 2X faster claim based upon write bandwidth. //X running pre-GA
Purity version. “Typical workloads” latency claims based upon both in-house synthetic testing and customer trials. Performance subject to change pending GA release and future software updates.
3PB Effective based upon 5:1 average data reduction, and does not include thin provisioning.
FAMILY
58. SHARED ACCELERATED STORAGE FOR EVERY WORKLOAD
FROM 15 TBs TO 3 PBs
3PBs
1.3 PBs
650 TBs
275 TBs
55 TBs
PERFORMANCE
EFFECTIVE CAPACITY
59. 4 CORE TECHNOLOGIES
THAT MAKE PURE DIFFERENT
PURITY SPEAKS
DIRECTLYTO FLASH
512-BYTEVARIABLE
METADATA POWERS
EVERYTHING IN PURITY
• BETTER DEDUPE
• BETTERCOMPRESSION
• NATIVE GC & FLASH
MANAGEMENT
ALWAYS UPGRADABLE
KEEP PACE WITH FLASH &
CPU ADVANCES
THE AI ENGINETHAT
AUTOMATES
MANAGEMENT &
SUPPORT
ISSUE
FINGERPRINTS
WORKLOAD
DNA
PROACTIVE
RESPONSE
Metadata Fabric
ARCHITECTURE
PURE1
61. EXTERNAL KEY MANAGEMENT WITH VORMETRIC DSM
TRANSPARENT ENCRYPTION (VORMETRIC VTE)
KEY
MANAGEMENT
DECRYPTION
KEYS
ENCRYPTION
KEYS
ENCRYPTED DATA
TRANSFER
ALWAYS-ON ENCRYPTION
PRESERVES DATA REDUCTION
62. PROACTIVELY PREVENT ISSUES
DON’T CALL US, WE’LL CALL YOU
FINGERPRINT
EACH KNOWN ISSUE
(NOW 100s)
SEARCH EACH ARRAY
IN REAL-TIME FOR
ISSUES
MATCH!
YOU ARE
NOTIFIE
D
SUPPORT NOTIFIED,
TICKET OPENED
> >
GLOBAL SENSOR
NETWORK
REAL-TIME
SCANNING
DATA LAKE AI ENGINE
!
63. PROTECT GLOBALLY
SELF-PROTECTING STORAGE, INTEGRATED WITH AN OPEN ECOSYSTEM
LOCAL
RECOVERY
SNAPS
DATACENTER
RACK HA
METRO
ACTIVE/ACTIVE
CLUSTERING
GLOBAL
ASYNC SNAP
REPLICATION
LONG-TERM
PROTECTION & ARCHIVING
LOCAL SNAPS
SNAP TO
FLASHBLADE
SNAP TO
NFS
CLOUDSNAP*
DELTASNAP API
& INTEGRATIONs
UNIFIED PROTECTION POLICIES
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Privileged to be alive in the most exciting times in the existence of the world
But as much as the is very exciting to some, it can also be the most frightening time to be alive for others…
We will have businesses that will be have unseen growth and we will have big companies disappearing overnight.
What is the difference?
Propose - Ignorance
Ignorance to what? Great question!
CHANGE
We thinking about many things accelerating, like Moore's law with computational power doubling every 12 - 18 months, but there’s more to it. ...
This is a graph from Ray Kurzweil's book, The Singularity Is Near, and you see the computational growth over the last 120 years. The smoothness is extraordinary as you can not even see the effects of the world wars…. but if you take a continuation of this graph … Because this growth is likely to continue
In less that 6 years from now, you will be able to go the Incredible connection and for the same prices as what you would pay for a Mac today you will be able to get a computer that can calculate at the rate of the human brain …. and just some 25 years later you can buy computational power for the same price that equals the computational power of the entire human race.
This notion is likely to continue ...
This will only the foundation required for exponential growth in all types of technological areas like ...
As the computational power increase the advances in all of these will increase, and although you can be an expert in all of these, it is when you combine all of these … It is when AI and VR and Blockchain coming together and reinventing a new industry
But it is not just about that ….
This term comes from Peter Diamandis - What is an interface moment?
Markus Andresen - 1993 - earlier browser - Mozaic. What he did was he build an interface for an entrepreneurs to interface with a massive community and build businesses.
So was the app store allowing multiple entrepreneurs to do business with a massive community
But it is not just about that ….
…. BUT with artificial intelligence we are not very far before this is true …
Where I have an AI and you have an AI and this AI become becomes your interface to anything you want … you want to 3d print a new attachment to your whatever … you don't have to know how to write a KAM file, you just tell you AI what material you want to use, what color and to use material that is cheap …. Now the AI will be able to convert your language into 3d printing code …
You wanna change and modify the genome of your puppy and create the CRISPR cast 9 sequencing to be able to do that …. so now we see all those technologies I talked about that are ridden upon the exponential increase in computational power, AI now becomes your interface with every single one of those technologies. No expertise required, just a desire to know what you really want - taking you from desire to implication.
Another accelerated driver is ….
We are moving into a world where everything, every where is connected.
We have Zuckerberg who want to connect the other half of the world with drones and satellites.
We have Google Loon. We have Paul Jacobs, Richard Branson and Greg Weyler with $1,2b of funding that is now building a 900 satellite constellation. Then then you have a recent announcement by SpaceX that they will launch 4,400 satellites …
Imagine the planet being covered in mass connectivity
Imagine your cellphone doing 10 - 100gbps speeds. In fact Vodacom just announced that they will be rolling out a 5G network in Lesotho.
We heading into a world where everyone and everything is connected at Gbps speeds all the time
There will not be a place in the world where you will be connected at at least gbps speeds
…. then besides connecting the planet …...
We are also about to see an explosion of sensors Cisco says that by 2020 we will have 50b connected devices and at the end of the devices is a trillion sensors. By 2030 we heading to a 100 trillion sensors.
Imagine the knowledge an AI can give us with all the data from those sensors –
CLICK - We heading into a world where we can know anything we want, at any time we want it and anywhere we want it
So we have at least a have dozen constellations in orbit today that are providing high res photos and video in 5m resolution
But you’ll also be able to zoom in because there will be 10s of thousands of drones in every city, delivering things, watching things, scanning things in cm resolution
Then autonomous cars - Google autonomous cars with a LIDAR with 60 eye safe lasers generating 750 mbps of
data per second - that is one car seeing everything within a 100 m range - know imagine 2000,000 cars on the road …
Then whatever AR become with forward looking cameras in millimeter resolution
So we heading into a world where everything is imaged all the time, connected to the cloud, connected to AI’s, giving us not just data but knowledge .
You can ask a question like what is the most popular color for a mans shirt on the corner of a street in New York City and actually get the correct answer … so it is the questions you ask.
So where are we?
We have computation growing - on top of that we have all the other technologies growing …. We have interface moments giving everyone access to those - We have connection around the world
we have sensors around the world and we have more brains online...
We have 3b people connected to the internet this year, up from 1,8 in 2010
In 2022 we will have 8 billion people connected
We we say the world is getting faster - we talking about 5 billion new minds coming online with access to an interface moment connected to all those exponential technologies with Gbps connection speeds.
5 billion new people looking for problems to solve
Understand that the world’s biggest problems are also the worlds biggest business opportunities
then one of the most interesting and unintended consequences of this massive connectivity is ….
We living in a world where 3b people are connected, but imagine a time, a century ago where a genius was born in an obscure town without connectivity …
We living in a time where a genius will pop up like a light bulb on the planet
We will have an explosion in the amount of global genius… both natural and manmade…
Because the other side of the equation is - if you follow the work of Ray Kurzweil, you will see that in the next 15 - 20 years we will be able to connect your neocortex to the cloud
So we heading towards a world where we are about to connect the human brain to the cloud.
A Ton of work being done in this space by google, Elon, Facebook, and the military
As much as we see an arms race right now for AI, we will soon see an arms race for HI (Human intelligence)
It is then no longer about Ai vs humans but rather AI vs HI - How do we increase the intelligence of the people in our company or … in our government …
At the end of the day we have all these factors driving
But there is one last factor driving this massive acceleration
People like these ….
There's massive wealth in the hands of single individuals that are willing to take massive risks to advance technology and drive accelerated change
It is not just technology, but all of these things together that will enable you as a business owner or CEO to go bigger than ever before
The implications of these are extraordinary ….
If you need to communicate something important to a friend, do you call?
Visit? Email? Text? Skype? WhatsApp? Snap? Tweet? Message on Facebook, or LinkedIn?
The way we communicate is changing. As more and more tools become available, we seem to have accepted the notion that communication is “contextual”: LinkedIn is for work. Facebook is for friends. Snapchat is for close friends. Texting is for something immediate, if not
urgent. Slack is for your team. Twitter is for public broadcast. Skype is for long distance. Phone calls are for intimacy or something really important.
And a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that email is well, good enough.
We are social animals, and we communicate A LOT through the intonations of our voice and our facial features.
Basic rules:
If there’s something critical to communicate— close a deal, raise capital, tell someone you love them or want to break up — do it in person.
If you can’t meet in person, then do it by Skype (or Beam, see below).
If you can’t do it by Skype, then do it by phone.
Everything else (today) is basically inadequate for anything really important.
Telepresence/Beam:
While Skype is okay, it’s static and limiting. Some call it Skype on Wheels, but it is much more. Telepresence robots like the Beam (and its future derivatives) are the next best thing to being face to face. It really gives you the ability to move around and participate, as if you were there in
the flesh. Even better, in the very near future this technology is going to give you superpowers. You will have the ability to pull up details on your screen about the person to whom you’re speaking. But it could get even stranger. Imagine having the ability to use the sensors on your robot to measure the heart rate and pupillary reaction of the person you’re speaking to during a negotiation. Technologies like the Beam will expand our sensory experience when we communicate.
Virtual Worlds: The next step in technology-enabled communication - James Cameron pioneered in his moving Avatar. High Fidelity and our efforts with the Avatar XPRIZE are taking us.
Brain-Computer Interface: The ultimate form of communications will materialize in the following decade, as we develop Brain Computer Interface (BCI) — the ability to connect mind-to-computer and computer-to-mind. This will enable the most intimate level of communication conceivable, whereby you have the ability to understand a person’s most personal thoughts and feelings.
What about call-centres?
A long-standing goal of human-computer interaction has been to enable people to have a natural conversation with computers, as they would with each other. In recent years, we have witnessed a revolution in the ability of computers to understand and to generate natural speech, especially with the application of deep neural networks
Enter Google Duplex…
We are heading to a place where we are demonetizing everything to a post capitalist society where the price of food, medical and education is trending to zero …
But we are also heading towards a world of abundance ….
Here is the good news … And I would like to feed this to those of you that are constantly looking at the CONSTANTLY NEGATIVE NETWORK (CNN) or think that the future is doomed or think that SA is doomed …
We living in a truly amazing time and the data shows us that the world is getting better despite of all the BS that is going on …
World population living in poverty ...
Here is a snapshot of the literacy in the world…
We see a move from 12% to 85% reading literacy in the last 200 years with the biggest chunk happening in the last 30 years
Here is a snapshot of the increase in democracy in the world (in green)...
1% - 56% with again the biggest chunk happening in the last 30 years
I get excited about this one, because I am the proud father of two beautiful kids - imagine a world where your kids, just a 100 years ago had a 50/50 % chance the live
The finally - how do we double the human lifespan ?
For most part of the human history the avg life span was 26 - 30 years old puberty at 13 - have a baby - at 26 they have a baby and when food was scarce - the best thing you can do is die
Then came things like sanitation, germ theory and then we doubled the human lifespan … and we are on the verge of doubling it again ….
Flash has completely transformed our lives as consumers. Can you imagine a life without your iPad, camera, or smartphone? We’re all participants in the flash revolution.
But at work, things are different. We enjoy this amazing, flash-fueled consumer life, but our lives and the competitiveness of our companies at work is constrained by disk.
Sometimes a picture is worth 1,000 words, and technology doesn’t need to be over-complicated. Flash memory will be this decade’s IT disruptor.
The new FlashArrayX family redefines fast,
Redefines dense consolidation
Redefines simplicity @ Scale
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