Category: Open Server Summit

Paper Battery ultrathin flexible batteries and supercapacitors

Posted by – November 16, 2014

The Paper Battery Company develops super capacitors with very high energy and power density and flexible form factors. These devices recharge very quickly, and hold enough energy to take care of peak performance usage. The form factors that they are developing give designers more choices and options on how to fit power in previously unusable spaces. Applications for the Paper Battery technology range from mobile wearable devices to backup power in computing. They have two product lines that meet a varied set of needs, in all cases they can relieve battery anxiety, improve performance, and enable smaller, lighter products and reduce costs for the customer.

You can contact Paper Battery Company here (please tell them you saw this video):
Shreefal Mehta, CEO
smehta@paperbatteryco.com
http://paperbatteryco.com

Lenovo acquires IBM’s x86 server business

Posted by – November 16, 2014

Jonathan Hinkle, Director of Enterprise Server System Architecture at Lenovo, Chairman of the Open Server Summit, talks about Software Defined Storage, Network and Compute, featuring open source, open standards to lower costs and accelerate innovation in the server market. Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 Server Business last month, integrating all of IBM’s x86 server products into Lenovo’s server portfolio

OpenPower Foundation Opening the Power Architecture for Servers

Posted by – November 16, 2014

The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies are enabled to customize POWER CPU processors and system platforms for optimization including for custom systems for large or warehouse scale data centers, workload acceleration through GPU, FPGA or advanced I/O, platform optimization for SW appliances, or exploitation of advanced hardware.

Anil Vasudeva, President of IMEX Research talks Software Defined Data Centers

Posted by – November 16, 2014

Anil Vasudeva, President and Chief Analyst at IMEX Research talks about Software Defined Data Centers, Software Defined Storage and Software Defined Networks, that have been coming strong in the last two years, bringing the operating costs down which is the main feature data centers are looking for.