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> > Surly we should be asking exactly is driving the demand for > > high density computing and in which market sectors and is > > this actually the best technical solution to solve them > > problem. I don't care if IBM, HP etc etc want to keep > > selling new shiny boxes each year because they are telling us > > we need them - do we really? ...? > > Perhaps not. But until projects like <http://www.lesswatts.org/> > show some major success stories, people will keep demanding > big blade servers. Disagreed. Customers who don't run datacenters general don't understand the issues around high density computing, and most enterprises I deal with don't care about the cost. More and Faster is their vocabulary. > If you move all the entreprise services onto virtual servers > then you can free up space for colo/hosting services. We do quite a bit of VMWare and Xen, both our own and our customers. We have found power consumption still goes up, simply because there is always a backlog of the need of resources. In other words, it's almost "if you build it they will come" relates to CPU cycles as well. I have never seen a decrease in customer power consumption when they have virtualized. They still have more iron, with a lot more VM's. > You can even still sell to bulk customers because few will > complain that they have to deliver equipment to three > dara centers, one two blocks west, and another three blocks > north. X racks spread over 3 locations will work for everyone > except people who need the physical proximity for clustering > type applications. Send me those customers, because I haven't seen them. Especially the ones with lots of fiber channel and InfiniBand.
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