Comments on: Clouds, Datacenters, Virtualization and the Disruption of the Server Market http://upon2020.com/2010/05/clouds-datacenters-virtualization-and-the-disruption-of-the-server-market/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clouds-datacenters-virtualization-and-the-disruption-of-the-server-market The Next Decade In Technology: Musings by Johannes Ernst Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:04:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: www.flutterby.net-User-DanLyke http://upon2020.com/2010/05/clouds-datacenters-virtualization-and-the-disruption-of-the-server-market/comment-page-1/#comment-41 www.flutterby.net-User-DanLyke Mon, 17 May 2010 17:23:38 +0000 http://upon2020.com/?p=29#comment-41 I would like to think that this is a cycle like the one that brought about the personal computer revolution in the first place. We'll see a swing towards big centralized data centers, but then people will start to deal with the limitations of that and a new age of more personally oriented servers will spring up. I have no particular confidence in that prediction, however. One interesting note, though, is that Amazon's service is in many ways that same "take control away from the IS guys" that the personal computer was back in the late '70s and early '80s: I've got a friend who works for the USGS who's a huge Amazon user. One of his reasons is that it's much easier to break out his personal credit card and seek reimbursement than it is to get their computing facilities to provision and deploy a server, and not even in the same universe as getting them to both give him a server and admin access to it. So Amazon it is. I would like to think that this is a cycle like the one that brought about the personal computer revolution in the first place. We’ll see a swing towards big centralized data centers, but then people will start to deal with the limitations of that and a new age of more personally oriented servers will spring up.

I have no particular confidence in that prediction, however.

One interesting note, though, is that Amazon’s service is in many ways that same “take control away from the IS guys” that the personal computer was back in the late ’70s and early ’80s: I’ve got a friend who works for the USGS who’s a huge Amazon user. One of his reasons is that it’s much easier to break out his personal credit card and seek reimbursement than it is to get their computing facilities to provision and deploy a server, and not even in the same universe as getting them to both give him a server and admin access to it. So Amazon it is.

]]> By: Randy Bias http://upon2020.com/2010/05/clouds-datacenters-virtualization-and-the-disruption-of-the-server-market/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Randy Bias Thu, 13 May 2010 00:58:52 +0000 http://upon2020.com/?p=29#comment-39 Amazon's EC2 opened for business in 2006. They have been operational for four years. Amazon’s EC2 opened for business in 2006. They have been operational for four years.

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