Life On The Fault-Tolerant Frontier

Wendy Bartlett, Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

In 1976, Tandem Computers shipped its first commercial, single-fault-tolerant server. Today, HP is shipping its successors, Non-Stop servers. In this talk Wendy Bartlett, one of the early developers, will give her first-hand view of how the system has evolved over the last 30 years. She will also share her insights on how the company evolved from a start-up through rapid growth, an acquisition, and a merger.