What Web 2.0 Means for Hardware and the Datacenter

Tom's Hardware has a quick look at the changes being seen in the datacenter as more and more companies embrace a Web 2.0-style approach to hardware. So far, with Google leading the way, most companies have opted for a commodity server setup. HP and IBM however are betting that an even better setup exists and are striking out to find it. "IBM's Web 2.0 approach involves turning servers sideways and water cooling the rack so you can do away with air conditioning entirely. HP offers petabytes of storage at a fraction of the usual cost. Both say that when you have applications that expect hardware to fail, it's worth choosing systems that make it easier and cheaper to deal with those failures."

Comments

WTF ? The Web 2.0 approach to hardware?

[Colin Smith]

Web 2.0 is about a thousand layers above hardware, it does not in any manner, approach.

Web 2.0

[77Punker]

Oh, I get it. This is Web 2.0 hardware setup because users can add and modify servers as they see fit! Wait, the users have no control over the hardware?

Sounds pretty stupid, but maybe Tom's hardware guide has a good explanation...wait, there's no link to the article, or anything at all! At least we'll get some good discussion going because this is Slashdot, right?

This is probably the worst article I've ever seen on Slashdot.

Web 2.0 and hardware

[gnuman99]

WTF is TFA link?

But from the summary, it seems that "Web 2.0 servers" are like "Web 1.0 servers" but they would need more

    1. storage (for user comments)
    2. I/O (less caching, more throughput)
    3. processing power

But then that is just common sense. Regardless, "Web 2.0" is clearly a misused term to fullest extent possible these days. Might as well be "web enabled" and "linux" at end of the 90s.

Re:RTFA...

[GuldKalle]

There is no direct link to the story because there's no direct link between Web 2.0 and redundant hardware setups.