With the state of affairs (financially) with players such as HP, the future doesn't look very multipolar. I suspect that the Enterprise computing market will become more and more bipolar (pun intended) and the focus will shift to selling "platform as a service" or "Infrastructure as a service" solutions which hook seamlessly into public cloud offerings... HP will get bought, EMC will get bought, Netapp will get bought and then there will remain only 4 main players in the Computing platform market -- IBM, Ora
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday September 30, 2011 @04:34PM (#37571766)
Yes, because websites will all be hosted in the magical cloud, which somehow transcends the need for servers, and nobody will ever, EVER want to host ANYTHING on their own servers. Idiot.
There isn't a -1 stupid moderation, so I substitute overrated.
Not to mention the companies that I have worked for who understand the cloud and its benefits, but feel it is better to operate their own private infrastructure to protect themselves and their business. If I am running into this, then I know there must be many of them out there. These big companies can buy each other all they want. In the end, companies are still gonna run their own stuff and have their own data centers. Simple as that. Sysadmins will have jobs and so will programmers. This cloud thin
Yes, because websites will all be hosted in the magical cloud, which somehow transcends the need for servers, and nobody will ever, EVER want to host ANYTHING on their own servers. Idiot.
There isn't a -1 stupid moderation, so I substitute overrated.
When I was a young engineer in the early 90's most of my time was spent migrating services from mainframes to standalone servers. It was the epitome of progress - instead of these shared resources, you could have your very own dedicated resources, complete with redundant power, storage, memory, etc
At the time, one of the old engineers told me "we'll be changing all this back in 15 or 20 years, wait and see"
These days, I can appreciate the old man's wisdom. There are two trends which have been constant for as long as I've been working in IT:
A desire to centralise everything which is currently decentralised
A desire to decentralise everything which is currently centralised
Give it another 20 years, and I'll probably be seeing out the twighlight of my career dragging services back out of the "cloud" on to discrete hardware. Having your own dedicated resources will be the epitome of progress, compared to all that old-fashioned "cloud" computing.
The future doesn't look that multipolar (Score:1)
With the state of affairs (financially) with players such as HP, the future doesn't look very multipolar. I suspect that the Enterprise computing market will become more and more bipolar (pun intended) and the focus will shift to selling "platform as a service" or "Infrastructure as a service" solutions which hook seamlessly into public cloud offerings...
HP will get bought, EMC will get bought, Netapp will get bought and then there will remain only 4 main players in the Computing platform market -- IBM, Ora
Re:The future doesn't look that multipolar (Score:0)
Yes, because websites will all be hosted in the magical cloud, which somehow transcends the need for servers, and nobody will ever, EVER want to host ANYTHING on their own servers. Idiot.
There isn't a -1 stupid moderation, so I substitute overrated.
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Re:The future doesn't look that multipolar (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes, because websites will all be hosted in the magical cloud, which somehow transcends the need for servers, and nobody will ever, EVER want to host ANYTHING on their own servers. Idiot.
There isn't a -1 stupid moderation, so I substitute overrated.
When I was a young engineer in the early 90's most of my time was spent migrating services from mainframes to standalone servers. It was the epitome of progress - instead of these shared resources, you could have your very own dedicated resources, complete with redundant power, storage, memory, etc
At the time, one of the old engineers told me "we'll be changing all this back in 15 or 20 years, wait and see"
These days, I can appreciate the old man's wisdom. There are two trends which have been constant for as long as I've been working in IT:
Give it another 20 years, and I'll probably be seeing out the twighlight of my career dragging services back out of the "cloud" on to discrete hardware. Having your own dedicated resources will be the epitome of progress, compared to all that old-fashioned "cloud" computing.