ES2: Data centers to support tomorrow´s cloud

With the rise of cloud computing and Big Data, data centers are an important counterpoint to rapid growth in the mobile market. Building cost-effective, efficient computing infrastructures is a challenge that starts with technologies that ISSCC knows so well (processors, I/O, memory, etc.), but also encompasses system and customer-centric issues such as cooling, power delivery, and total cost of ownership. An outlook on the future of data centers, including recent trends such as open source models, energy-proportional computing, disaggregation, and software-defined data centers, will be discussed as it pertains to the ISSCC community.