Essentially that is dead on the mark.. add to it that companies like Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce (and others) are leveraging this capability to deliver both applications and services that leverage this technology. It's cool stuff, and really is the next "big thing" in the industry. Imagine having access to all your data and applications from any place, on any device, anytime. This is where we are heading technically..
Web 2.0 really has nothing to do with 1u, or 2u servers being configured in any specific manner, nor the layout in the racks to be "sideways", upside down, or water-cooled.
Web 2,0 is about moving the complexity required to support an application from the physical hardware into the application stack. This happens when an application provider builds resiliency and redundancy into the application and then the application utilizes the compute power of a series of systems merely as a process station. If a node goes offline, or fails, the application moves to the next logical set or online node. This really is nothing new to the industry, other than the capability now being available in the x86 platform.
The hardware provider that will win in this space will be the provider that can build, design, and architect the highest possible compute spec while utilizing the least amount of both space and power. It's not virtualizing applications, or operating systems. It's about squeezing as many processing units into the smallest amount of space while utilizing as little power as possible and the application being architected in a manner that will utilize that.
Gone are the days of needing to build fault tolerant hardware platforms, with back-up power-supplies, clustering,etc. Today we have smart applications that see that additional processing power is required, or that a process node is down, and the application fails over to the next node in line. This is really not new, what's new is the capability being available in the X86 space. that's a beautiful thing. that means the customer/consumer wins.
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Essentially that is dead on the mark.. add to it that companies like Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce (and others) are leveraging this capability to deliver both applications and services that leverage this technology. It's cool stuff, and really is the next "big thing" in the industry. Imagine having access to all your data and applications from any place, on any device, anytime. This is where we are heading technically..
Web 2.0 really has nothing to do with 1u, or 2u servers being configured in any specific manner, nor the layout in the racks to be "sideways", upside down, or water-cooled. Web 2,0 is about moving the complexity required to support an application from the physical hardware into the application stack. This happens when an application provider builds resiliency and redundancy into the application and then the application utilizes the compute power of a series of systems merely as a process station. If a node goes offline, or fails, the application moves to the next logical set or online node. This really is nothing new to the industry, other than the capability now being available in the x86 platform. The hardware provider that will win in this space will be the provider that can build, design, and architect the highest possible compute spec while utilizing the least amount of both space and power. It's not virtualizing applications, or operating systems. It's about squeezing as many processing units into the smallest amount of space while utilizing as little power as possible and the application being architected in a manner that will utilize that. Gone are the days of needing to build fault tolerant hardware platforms, with back-up power-supplies, clustering,etc. Today we have smart applications that see that additional processing power is required, or that a process node is down, and the application fails over to the next node in line. This is really not new, what's new is the capability being available in the X86 space. that's a beautiful thing. that means the customer/consumer wins.
Don't you mean.. "if only MRS. McBride had used a condom?"