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Warehouse-Scale Computing

Google released their latest whitepaper on the future of the datacentre – and it lives in a warehouse. In a play on the famous Sun ‘the network is the computer’, the Google view is that ‘the datacentre is the computer’. For them, it makes sense, massive virtualization on thousands of computers held in warehouses across the globe – providing massive scalability and agility… but managed and used as a single entity from the customers’ perspective.

There are others capable of warehouse-scale computing, most notable Amazon and Microsoft – time will tell if there will be others, such as Yahoo or even Cisco, maybe Oracle (through Sun) and then whether customers will want to use them, or revert to their trusted VARs who will create their own small partner clouds and deliver a more personal service.

Guy Bunker

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