Panel HOTI 2019: Data center transformation - How will the datacenter look different in 5 years

Summary form only given, as follows. A record of the panel discussion was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. Data Center Transformation – How will the DataCenter look different in 5 years. Points covered: How will system architecture change towards connectivity; Edge Networking; Scalable compute workloads in the cloud; Serverless computing and its impact on networking; I/O wall and shift towards optics; Competing technologies (CXL vs CSIX vs TileLink vs nvlink). Panelists: Andreas Bechtolsheim (Arista) and Hong Liu (Google).