True Infrastructure Summit

A few weeks ago, we hosted the first annual True Infrastructure Summit, which brought together a small, highly curated group of top infrastructure thinkers for a day of off-the-record open discussion and learning.

Anchoring the group were the Founders of the infrastructure companies in True’s portfolio, the technical minds behind Puppet Labs, Vagrant, Cascading, Cloud Foundry, Cassandra, Dynamo, Open Stack, Basho, Arbor Networks and more. We invited many of their customers to join us, bringing together over 30 CIOs and VPs of Infrastructure from around the world and across various verticals. It’s always been our belief that when you get a lot of smart people in the room who are willing to share and collaborate, amazing things come out of it. This event was no exception.

We are in the midst of the biggest change we have ever seen in the data center, which places unprecedented strain on IT infrastructure. It’s far bigger than the change we saw with the advent of the Internet, when the major software leaders and several hundred billions of market cap were created. The change today is affecting every layer of the data center, from compute to storage and on up.

The rate of change in the past three years has been greater than in the previous 15 years combined, and it’s affecting industries we never thought would see disruption—CPG, education, health care and more. However, the rate of decline has never been this great either. It’s incredibly easy to slip up and fall behind.

To that end, we spent the day in open, uncensored discussion, exploring the changing roles of infrastructure services (or apps) in service-oriented enterprise architecture, the rise of big data and the future of security. It was an unprecedented collaboration between the next major software leaders and their biggest customers, and the takeaways from our discussions were both tangible and visionary.

We hope to do more of these events, focused on different verticals, in the future. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated. Sharing is power, and our universal uptime depends on it.