Anisse
Great presentation at #PremDay by Yoann giving feedback about how Qarnot works and what they expect from server vendors.
Prem'Day: feedback on the first infra on-prem conference and creation of a user group by Erwan Velu
Prem'Day was a one-day conference in May from infrastructure users.
Many companies participated: server operators giving talks (Scaleway, i3d, Qarnot, Moji, Criteo), and server vendors (Dell, AMD, Intel HPE, Gigabyte, Supermicro, etc.) listening to all this feedback.
(with yours truly giving the opening talk)
Videos are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjPeZjanhgqW0P-F40DJYS3Pg0nGJlXUg
Every presentation talked about the firmware ecosystem and how it can be a pain when operating servers.
Having so many server buyers on stage giving feedback about the same issues had a bigger impact towards server vendors, because they can understand that it's a pervasive issue.
The conference was just the starting point: a User Group for Infra owners is the main goal, in order to have a point of contact to ease communication between vendors and their user communities. This user group will own and support the conference, in addition to working on various topics.
The group is currently organized on the Open Source Firmware slack channel #premday, and the next edition of the conference should be in 2025.