Fungible Data Center
Designing for a Flexible and Efficient Data Center Through Composable Cloud.
Role
Lead Product Designer
Team
10+ Engineers, 2 PMs
Timeline
3 Years (MVP to Scale)
Focus
0-1 Product, UX Strategy
Rigid, Complex, Expensive
Traditional data centers—especially hyperscale ones—are rigid silos. Computing, storage, and networking components operate in isolated environments, requiring experts to manage.
This leads to low resource utilization, operational inefficiencies, and high costs. AI/ML workloads need powerful bare metal servers, which limits the flexibility of virtualized systems.
Siloed Resources
Isolated components require specialized management.
AI/ML Demands
High-performance workloads clash with virtualization.
Low Utilization
Inefficiencies lead to wasted capacity and budget.
Composable Cloud
Composable cloud is a software-defined infrastructure approach that enables dynamic allocation and reconfiguration of computing resources.
Fungible Data Center Composer enables users to create data centers on-demand to address changing application needs with cloud-like agility at any scale.
Composable Cloud Architecture
Fungible DPU Technology
Kicking Off
With just one month before the engineering team's dedicated DCC work, we prioritized feature functionality due to limited time and resources. Initial research relied on market research and reading white papers.
1 Year
To deliver 4 internal releases
1 Month
Headstart to deliver initial wireframes
0 Customer
Rely on whitepapers & assumptions
Project Timeline & Milestones
Physical & Virtual
- Support the composition of physical and virtual resources
- Build upon DPU-powered servers and storage devices
- Bring simplicity to the composer experience
- Create something scalable to thousands of devices
Opportunity Board for Composition Project
Data Center Admin (DCA)
Managed Service Provider (MSP) or Cloud Service Provider (CSP) managing hardware inventory and resource allocation.
Tenant Admin (TA)
IT manager within an organization procuring resources from the CSP and allocating them to teams.
Stakeholders Map connecting roles to design solutions
Composition Experience
Key features include creating and managing Environments and Instances, bare-metal server composition, one-click environment deployment from templates, and a template marketplace with RBAC.