The future of the internet infrastructue is not pizza boxes or Big Iron
Om Malik poses a question: Will the inefficiency of “pizza box” servers push the internet infrastructure back to Big Iron?
No way.
What we’re seeing is the creation of a new market, with unique requirements. What’s needed is Cheap Scale – thousands of servers, scalable at the drop of a hat. And tons of storage.
I had a great conversation with Stephen DiFranco at AMD on this exciting space just yesterday. He sees a classic new market dynamic, where custom solutions have been developed in-house by web hosting firms. Their technology is their ’special sauce’, but as the industry matures and grows, the solutions mature and standardize as well.
Vendor solutions are already going beyond the pizza box. Verari Systems and Rackable Systems have been leaders here, but the solutions are just beginning to evolve.
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