Imagine for a moment that you are a pilot delivering the first Airbus A380—the world’s largest airplane—to a new customer. As you approach the airport you check in with air traffic control to confirm they are ready for you to land. You assume that the extension to the runway, the strengthening of the runway and the double decker gate modifications have all been made.
But it appears they have not! You’re not going to be able to land the plane!
It’s an impossible scenario. Why? Because the aviation industry has been vertically integrated. It had to develop a much longer term collective view of the future for all its constituent parts in order to function properly….
Modius, Inc. is a leading provider of critical infrastructure management software for optimizing the infrastructure and operations of critical facilities, including data centers, telecom, smart buildings and other IoT environments. The company’s mission is to simplify the operations of the increasingly diverse and complex facilities and IT environment in IoT, while markedly improving performance efficiencies. Modius’ flagship offering, OpenData, is a software application that actively integrates power, networking and environmental intelligence with other management applications.
Yotta mainstage speaker Dr. Andrew Chien has some impressive titles: William Eckhardt Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago; Director of the CERES Center for Unstoppable Computing; Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory; and Editor-in-Chief, Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) to name just a few.
But what Yotta attendees really need to know is that Chien is is a pivotal figure in the pursuit of sustainable scaling. His research focuses on creating resilient, high-performance computing systems capable of operating under extreme conditions. With a Ph.D. from MIT and extensive experience in academia and industry, Chien’s work is helping to drive innovations that ensure the digital infrastructure can grow sustainably. And that’s the heart of Yotta!
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