Cloud Computing: Future of the server – the data centre is the server
May 26, 2016
Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.
Servers have been a key part of the data centre for so long that it is easy to see them as an immutable part of the IT landscape. They might get a faster processor, more memory or more storage with each hardware generation, but the underlying architecture has changed remarkably little since the days of the first PC servers in the 1980s.
That could soon change, as developments in the data centre related to cloud computing and software-defined infrastructure are driving a move towards more modular and less monolithic servers. Rather than being the ‘atomic’ building block of the data centre as they are today, tomorrow’s servers may be just a collection of hardware resources that form part of a larger system that could extend across the entire data centre…
Cloud computing aims to deliver an IT platform where applications and services can simply request the resources they need to run and have them provisioned on demand. However, server nodes represent discrete quantities of processor cores, memory and storage, and these often do not match up directly with the requirements of the application…
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