Cloud: Datacenters, Meet Software!

April 6, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from SysCon. Author: Roger Strukhoff.

The PC revolution has redefined the notion of a computer over the past four decades. Now it might be time to redefine the notion of a collection of computers, that is, to redefine the notion of a datacenter. Datacenters are thought of as big places. Some of the more recent plants used by mega-users like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook have acres of land under roof, with many tens of thousands of individual systems and power requirements that would support a small city.

Even your friendly local, on-site enterprise datacenter is likely to be a big room with a big budget commitment and a lot of people hired to manage it. But what if a datacenter could fit in the corner of a room, or under a desk, or in the palm of your hand? This seems to be the direction we’re headed, as data loads simultaneously grow exponentially and become ever more distributed…

This is also part of the vision I saw and heard outlined at the recent Open Compute Summit in San Jose…

Read more from the source @ http://www.sys-con.com/node/3320454