On 11/4/06, Mike Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What do you guys think of this?
I think it's yet another niche product from the company becoming more
and more reliant on niche products all the time. Don't get me wrong,
it'd be very helpful for things like disasters (as some have said) and
possibly even things like temporary use while a "real" data center is
built, or on-site things like oil exploration (I forget where I first
heard that idea). But when it comes to real computing for companies
that's not just temporary.. no company is going to want that in a
container like that. Especially if they'll ever outgrow one.
I am curious why you say, "no company is going to want that in a container
like that." It seems to me that the whole point is to do away with having to
keep engineering the stuff around the computing and storage each time
you scale up or replace stuff.
Why would companies object to just buying a bigger chunk of the solution
and buying that chunk in a "plug it in and use it" box? Things like this could
be housed in a tin shed in a parking lot i.e. it has the potential to be a _lot_
less expensive infrastructure than the existing builders/contractors/architects
approach.
BobLQ
BobLQ
Ol' John Schwartz at Sun talks about it like companies will just buy
these and stack them up or something... ain't gonna happen. At least
not by any company that expects to be around for any time to come.
Most companies would likely offsite with data center providers before
putting groups of these next to their building for long term use.
It's almost as bad as his Thumper announcement. And the fanboy's were
licking his boots on his blog like they'd invented this great new
thing... only thing was, even tiny shops like Pogo linux had the same
technology 3-4 years earlier... funny they either all missed that or
ignored it. Sure, Sun bumped the space in the 4U space a bit and
incrementally improved over the other designs, but it was no huge
breakthrough like they acted.
--
Mike Marion-Unix/Linux Admin-http://www.miguelito.org
"PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"
--
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
--
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
