I don't mean cloud computing, it's too early to call that one. I'm talking about server virtualization products like VMWware that would allow one to run several independent virtual server instances on single/clustered hardware servers.
As far as Google's GMail goes, they've had some outages, yes, but their uptime still rivals anything you could hope to achieve with hardware you control in your own DC. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-we-learned-from-1-million.html Jeroen van Aart wrote: > You mean the buzz words cloud computing and grid computing? I am > doubtful that's going to last in its current form. Google's email system > been having quite a few outages, to give an example. It's interesting to > see this is somewhat of a step back to the good old mainframe "paradigm" > ;-) How soon do you think before the current buzzwords become > yesterday's news? > > You're still dealing with hardware and OSes. Except now you have no > control of the hardware and when a company goes bust, or I don't know, > decides to retire some services, you can say goodbye to your virtual setup. > > Regards, > Jeroen > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
