Does Hardware Matter in the Cloud?

The narrative that hardware does not matter in the cloud is driven chiefly by the growing importance of software. In this Tech Field Day Showcase, presented to you by Intel, Alastair Cooke, cloud provider course teacher and co-author of Digital Infrastructure at Datacenter Scale zooms into this perception to provide an understanding of what created it in the first place and the truth of it. Asking what’s more important - the hardware or the software - is like the chicken or egg paradox. But the reality is, software that occupies the centerstage needs the hardware to exist. Without hardware, innovation at software level is not possible.

Posted on November 15, 2022 as part of Intel’s Tech Field Day Showcase. Watch the entire presentation at https://techfieldday.com/appearance/i... or visit https://gestaltit.com/whitepapers/dig... to read the accompanying whitepaper.

Presenter: Alastair Cooke   / alastaircooke   @DemitasseNZ

Delegates: Ned Bellavance   / ned1313  
Melissa Palmer   / vmiss33  
Chris Hayner   / hayner80  
Max Mortillaro   / maxmortillaro