Comments on: Look Out! Your Data Center Is About to Change Again http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Karl Freund http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/#comment-579530 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:43:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=287150#comment-579530 OK, good point, mcpit. I should have said “Unix on RISC SMPs”. I’ve worked all my career in this space (HP, Cray, and IBM), and still see significant value for UNIX and RISC especially for large integrated applications, RDBS, and OTLP. But IDC’s data shows that UNIX/RISC has indeed seen massive defection to Lintel and Wintel. My belief is that there is potential for that hegemony to begin to see incursion by ARM servers in applications that are embarrassingly distributed/parallel. It will take a while, but there’s no way 2020 looks like 2010.

]]> By: mcpit http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/#comment-579288 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:34:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=287150#comment-579288 >> UNIX servers, which are now being pushed out by x86 servers

You’re kind of mixing OS and platforms here.
I don’t see Unix (SysV/BSD/Linux) as being pushed out at all…

]]> By: Karl Freund http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/#comment-576744 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:20:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=287150#comment-576744 Glad to see we started a good conversation. Lucian and Corbett have it right, imho. Servers will come out later this year through 2012 based on A9 and will focus on very large scale internet apps, or at the opposite end of the spectrum, very small servers. Different designs for different folks. And nobody should ignore Intel! We just want to offer people a choice for the right set of applications. If you are a Forrester subscriber, check out Frank Gillett’s paper called The Age of Computing Diversity; good read.

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]]> By: Nicholas http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/#comment-576515 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:07:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=287150#comment-576515 I was quite the fan of Cobalt, and owned several racks. If I am correct, they were MIPS albeit not far off from ARM. It was simply too far ahead of the times — moderately powered appliances. Blades should be a natural however.

]]> By: John http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/#comment-576505 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:23:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=287150#comment-576505 Interesting article. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what evolves in the server market.

]]> By: Sean http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/#comment-576340 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:27:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=287150#comment-576340 No one is saying to write off Intel, as they continue to push out more powerful chips that are becoming more and more power efficient. ARM has no intention of challenging Intel’s server dominance until 2014 (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-13/arm-plans-to-challenge-intel-s-server-chip-dominance-in-2014.html), and its going to be a long battle one of the two technologies (or a new technology) come out as a new chamption.

]]> By: Corbett Baker http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/#comment-576336 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:47:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=287150#comment-576336 Corel did this years ago with the Netwinder, so did Cobalt (Later Sun) I seem to recall that they were quite nice for what they did; provide basic web hosting in an appliance form factor.
Amazon provides a platform for the vast market, right now most people are developing server software for x86-centric environments. I’d say Atom, or VIA Nano has a better chance than ARM, at least at the moment.
Think multi-transaction, low cpu intensive applications like Facebook, streaming,etc.

]]> By: Alexander Kent http://gigaom.com/2011/01/15/look-out-your-data-center-is-about-to-change-again/#comment-576327 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:16:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=287150#comment-576327 I wouldn’t write off Intel

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