Comments on: Google: The Data Center Is the Computer

By: The Economics of Servers Could Soon Change: Tech News «

The Economics of Servers Could Soon Change: Tech News « — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:20:49 +0000

[...] OSes aren’t designed to play well on the architecture. It brings us closer to the idea of the data center as a computer with the real operating system being at the management layer. If you can make the management layer [...]

By: NoSQL Pioneers Are Driving the Web’s Manifest Destiny

NoSQL Pioneers Are Driving the Web’s Manifest Destiny — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:46:21 +0000

[...] of thousands, of nodes trying to act as one computer delivering a service. Google and IBM both have written about the data center as a computer, and Facebook says it thinks of adding hardware at the rack level rather than at the server level. [...]

By: When it Comes to Web Scale Go Cheap, Go Custom or Go Home – GigaOM

When it Comes to Web Scale Go Cheap, Go Custom or Go Home – GigaOM — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:56:20 +0000

[...] Facebook no longer thinks in terms of servers deployed, it now thinks in terms of deploying entire racks. The software the company is running is rack aware so it can take advantage of all of the bandwidth on a given switch in the rack. It looks like an intermediate step in running your data center as a computer. [...]

By: HP and Microsoft Buddy Up for Cloud Computing – GigaOM

HP and Microsoft Buddy Up for Cloud Computing – GigaOM — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:52:30 +0000

[...] Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft Corp. today said the two companies would invest $250 million in the next three years to link Microsoft software with HP gear and sell it as one. The two have committed to what they call the infrastructure-to-application model with an eye to establishing both companies as big players in cloud computing. As the cloud gains in prominence, and is increasingly seen as the next generation computing model, hardware, software and networking companies are buddying up to create a data center that runs like a computer. [...]

By: Is Virtualization a Cloud Prerequisite? – GigaOM

Is Virtualization a Cloud Prerequisite? – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:05:21 +0000

[...] So virtualization and cloud-based infrastructure as a service are not the ubiquitous answers. At times, more efficient, streamlined access to raw hardware simply provides the best bang for the buck. For those interested in another perspective, Stacey recently spoke with Erich Clementi, the head of IBM’s cloud computing efforts, about Big Blue’s cloud strategy. Clementi pointed out, “Many people equate cloud computing to virtualization. It is not virtualization.” He further said: Google is not virtualized, and virtualization is not sufficient to qualify as a cloud — it’s a better use of the physical infrastructure, but the real bang comes from modeling out the whole data center and taking energy, labor, software and hardware and acting on all those levels. It’s like Google’s idea that the data center has become the computer. [...]

By: VMware Wants to Provide the OS for the Cloud

VMware Wants to Provide the OS for the Cloud — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:28:23 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham | Friday, September 4, 2009 | 10:23 AM PT | 0 comments If the data center is the new computer, then the job of providing the de facto operating system of that new computer is up for grabs, as [...]

By: IBM Plans Cloud Service to Take on Microsoft, Google & Salesforce

IBM Plans Cloud Service to Take on Microsoft, Google & Salesforce — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:01:59 +0000

[...] Clementi: Google is not virtualized and virtualization is not sufficient to qualify as a cloud — it’s a better use of the physical infrastructure, but the real bang comes from modeling out the whole data center and taking energy, labor, software, and hardware and acting on all those levels. It’s like Google’s idea that the data center has become the computer. [...]

By: RedMonkTV » Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop & Cloudera

RedMonkTV » Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop & Cloudera — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:24:53 +0000

[...] easier for IT departments to consume. At higher-level, Cloudera is figuring out how to deliver "warehouse scale computing" beyond the walls of Google, who recently quipped the [...]

By: IBM Tries to Sell Enterprises on Workload-Specific Clouds

IBM Tries to Sell Enterprises on Workload-Specific Clouds — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:01:26 +0000

[...] GigaOM: So in IBM’s view the workloads dictate the hardware, rather than the idea of commodity servers being used to build out a general purpose cloud? [...]

By: Occubus Jive

Occubus Jive — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:57:35 +0000

aha! the FRANK vector surfaces…