Comments on: All computing isn’t equal: Here are the four types http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/ Wed, 22 May 2013 00:12:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pim Bilderbeek http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1299059 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:20:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1299059 Have a look at this article below for a different way of segmenting computing styles and architectures

http://www.themetisfiles.com/2013/01/the-four-types-of-system-architectures/

]]> By: Pim Bilderbeek http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1295256 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:20:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1295256 I think you are mixing up customer types with operational computing styles and infrastructure architectures.

Customer types are about vertical markets and size classes. They are all enterprises
Operational computing style is about how you organize the operational IT function, i.e. DIY and dedicated vs fully outsourced and shared
Infra architectures are about how you approach server, storage, networking and orchestration. For instance as vertically integrated, distributed, pooled, or converged

]]> By: ksankar http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1295069 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:23:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1295069 I think there would be a class of computing optimized for Analytics/Big Data appliances (vritual/real) Have compiled some thoughts at http://goo.gl/mw7ER You did touch upon it in the Enterprise class. There are also some rumblings on ARM based servers that optimize on power and space beyond the HPC space – yet to be seen.
Also of interest is the GPU based systems, that could fall in the HPC space.

]]> By: Vishwakarma http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1294490 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:23:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1294490 could this article evolve into the “new taxanomy” for enterprise computing?

]]> By: Vishwakarma http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1294488 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:17:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1294488 no mention of “personal computing?”

]]> By: Karl Zimmerman http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1294110 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:16:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1294110 It seems you don’t really understand enterprise, and that seems to be very common here and in most of the tech news/blog sites. Almost every day we have enterprises moving to “the cloud” it is just different, and less sexy, than what most of everyone seems to be paying attention to. They ARE leaving their old infrastructures behind, but they’re looking to move them to other infrastructures that are logically similar. This means migrations to virtualized systems/clusters and in many cases those are outsourced cloud services, though almost always on the private cloud side.

These types of enterprise demands are what is driving the entire private cloud market. They do need control, but they also realize they need to be more nimble, public cloud offerings have demonstrated what is possible in that regard. Now, while public cloud doesn’t offer them the control they need, private cloud providers can look to make a lot of money as enterprises have really just started seriously moving to outsourced private cloud solutions.

]]> By: Geoff Arnold http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1294109 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:16:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1294109 Oops. s/As they/As they stand/

]]> By: Geoff Arnold http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1294108 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:15:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1294108 Well, Chloe is wrong (she should read the excellent “The Beak of the Finch” – http://amzn.com/067973337X ), but evolution IS a terrible term to use here, since the key idea (variation and selection) doesn’t apply. But putting that aside…

The problem I have with this categorization is that it conflates three different dimensions of the problem:

- the application use case – synchronous client or web serving vs. asynchronous batch/analytics
- the scale of the problem including higher-order derivatives
- the operational solution – classic IT, SaaS, hosted, cloud, etc.

As they, the four categories proposed here aren’t really helpful, since many real-world examples will fall into two or three of the categories.

]]> By: Chloe http://gigaom.com/2013/01/05/all-computing-isnt-equal-here-are-the-four-types/#comment-1294101 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:02:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=598987#comment-1294101 The finch analogy is a terrible analogy since finches don’t evolve they simply adapt.

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