Cloud Computing: Google’s Urs Hölzle – There’s no Moore’s Law for IT budgets

Grazed from CiteWorld. Author: Matt Weinberger.

Moore’s Law means that every year, RAM gets cheaper, hard drives get bigger, and processors get faster — which means that public cloud providers like Google can both improve performance and drop prices on the regular. The problem is that even as your IT infrastructure grows by 50 percent year after year, the CIO’s hiring budget probably isn’t keeping pace.

That means IT professionals have to learn to do more with less, said Google infrastructure chief Urs Hölzle on stage at the GigaOM Structure conference in San Francisco. And the way to get there is by automation and a move towards the DevOps model, where every developer is also responsible for infrastructure…

It’s a thing Google knows a thing or two about: The company operates its services at massive scales just to make sure search, Gmail, Google Drive, and its whole range of other products and services keep running. These days, somewhere in the neighborhood of two billion connected Android devices open up a TCP connection to the Google mothership every single day, Hölzle says. And those numbers are growing. "Moore’s Law is relentless," Hölzle says…

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