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Last week I attended the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas.  I went to talk to customers, do booth duty (I talked about the app-centric world and how IT can best respond to it) and check out a few sessions.

The best session I attended was a power-point-free discussion with Don Duet, Co-head of Goldman Sach’s Technology division.  Below are a few of the things that Don talked about and comments he made which I thought were particularly interesting.  It’s not just web companies that are pushing the technology envelope.

Goldman’s Technology

• Goldman Sachs’ has 36,000 employees, 6,000 of which are developers (10,000 people in tech overall).  They have 30 PB’s of data.  They support their employees with half a million cores.
• Goldman builds their infrastructure around their applications
• Goldman’s four Big Bets
  • Commodity computing
  • Software defined everything
  • Drive everything in infrastructure from an application perspective
  • Open Source and Open Standards
• Don and team do an exercise where they talk about how they would architect Goldman if they were starting fresh today (“Goldman 2.0”)
• “It’s harder and harder to tell where the business stops and IT begins”
• “Most of our infrastructure should be able, over time, to migrate to the public cloud (once security gets better)”

Extra-credit reading

• DataCenter Knowledge: Gartner Data Center Conference: Photo Highlights

Pau for now…

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