Re: Slashdot: Business under-investing in I.T.

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

poodles...@sbcglobal.net (Dan @ Poodles) writes:
> It's simple business economics - i.e., cost center vs profit center.
> Businesses will always invest in revenue generating first above all
> else.

big cloud megadatacenters (hundreds of thousands of systems, millions of
processors) had been spending enormous amount to commoditize server
systems, for more than decade they say they've been assembling their own
systems at 1/3rd the cost of brand name systems. About the time server
chip makers said they were shipping more chips to cloud customers (to
assemble their own systems) than to server vendors, IBM sold off its
server business.
http://www.opencompute.org/

They've managed to so commoditize the cost of servers (cost but shows on
bottom line) that power & cooling have increasingly become major part of
their costs ... and they are putting heavy pressure on server chip makers
to significantly improve power (& cooling) use. Also they've managed to
drop server cost so drastically that they can provision large number of
extra systems for "on-demand" ... and they require systems that
power/cooling drop to near zero when idle but are nearly instant on when
needed.

It is so changing the metrics that server price/performance is being
replaced by power efficiency ratio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness

and PUE is also affecting locations chosen to build new megadatacenters.

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Re: Slashdot: Business under-investing in I.T.

[John McKown]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Dan @ Poodles 
wrote:

> It's simple business economics - i.e.,  cost center vs profit center.
> Businesses will always invest in revenue generating first above all else.
>
>
​True. But what seems, at least to me, is that they sometimes forget that
without "infrastructure" that the "revenue producing" parts of the business
won't generate any revenue. Well, I guess that I should remain grateful
that toilet paper is still a priority infrastructure item. :-} Oh, and, of
course, COFFEE!!!​


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Re: Slashdot: Business under-investing in I.T.

[Dan @ Poodles]

It's simple business economics - i.e.,  cost center vs profit center.  
Businesses will always invest in revenue generating first above all else.

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Slashdot: Business under-investing in I.T.

[John McKown]

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