ARM Community: Why ARM in Servers? Panel Discussion on ARM's Google+ Hangout on Air - ARM Community

Want to know what all the hype is about ARM in servers? Watch ARM’s live Google+ Hangout on Air panel discussion with guests from HP, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. Stay late at Mobile World Congress (MWC) or get up early on the west coast on Thursday February 28 at 16:00 CET (15:00 GMT, 9:00 CST, 7:00 PST). Watch the broadcast live on Google+ or YouTube.

Below are a few of the questions and topics you can expect to find answers to:

• Do you see a difference between servers being placed in Web 2.0 infrastructure and those deployed in traditional enterprises?
• Is there really a future for 64-bit ARM device?
• An update on HP’s Moonshot program based around ARM technology that was announced in October 2011.

Panelists:
Tim Wesselman, Sr Director, Ecosystem Strategy, HyperScale Business Unit at HP, he is a seasoned strategy and marketing executive, balanced with financial markets and engineering experience. He is passionate about technology and innovation, especially when these lead to market disruption and make the world a better place. His current mission is to transform the Enterprise market with ARM servers and ARM enterprise infrastructure.

Jon Masters is Chief ARM Architect at Red Hat, where he works on the Fedora ARM project. Masters has been a Linux developer for more than 17 years, since beginning university at the age of 13. He is the author of a number of books on the Linux operating system, including "Building Embedded Linux Systems," and the upcoming "Porting Linux." An accomplished musician and hiker, he also enjoys unicycling among his many other hobbies.

Mark Shuttleworth is founder of Ubuntu, a popular operating system for personal, cloud and server computing. Ubuntu is beautiful, easy to use and precision engineered for consumers and large-scale enterprise deployments alike. It has been adopted by an amazing number of people that just want safe web surfing, heavy industry, massive cloud computing environments, supercomputers, several armies, national police forces, banks and schools in the Amazon. And it runs perfectly on ARM.

Ian Ferguson, VP of Segment Marketing at ARM, he is responsible for managing the broad set of vertical marketing initiatives underway inside ARM from sensors through to network infrastructure and everywhere in between. For the past five years, Ian had led the ARM’s initiative to define and implement the strategy to open up the data center/server segment to ARM technology. As such, Ian engaged with all aspects of the server value chain worldwide, from end users through to semiconductor companies. Ian has over 22 years of experience in engineering, marketing and sales roles with the majority of his time focused on processor-based SoCs that targeted embedded applications.

Moderator:
Lakshmi Mandyam, Director of Server Systems & Ecosystem at ARM, prior to ARM she worked at various companies building technology for enterprise applications. At ARM she is delighted to be able to change people’s perceptions about being able to deliver high performance enterprise solutions in a energy efficient mobile power profile.


Just as we go live the link to the Google+ Hangout on Air will be posted to this blog's comments section, ARM onAir Google+ page, ARMflix YouTube channel & @ARMMobile twitter. Join the conversation during the event on Twitter and include the hashtag #ARMservers.

Katie Morgan, Digital Marketing Lead, ARM, was thrown into the fast paced and exciting world of technology in 2007. She has now fully transformed into a technology enthusiast that always has at least her smartphone in hand, mini laptop and (now adding to the list) tablet at her side. Exploring the ever-evolving digital and social media outlets of Web 2.0 (wait is it Web 3.0 already?) is her thing. She is enjoying the rapid innovation that is changing her highly connected lifestyle into "connected without borders."