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Tuesday, June 3. 2008

Nicholas Carr wrote in Microsoft to put "many millions" of servers in cloud about the plans of Microsoft regarding cloud computing. Well, i know, we like Microsoft now, but i simply can´t resist: Microsoft has a vast experience in providing an operation system for cloud computing. Botnets are not that different from cloud computing and there are millions of member nodes in this clouds ... sorry ... botnets.

PS: Is it just me, or is this whole cloud computing hype just another name for "services controlled by a grid engine" ?

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, The IT Business at 22:09 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)
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I wish Microsoft would put millions of Sun built servers into that cloud. However, Ben Rockwood's assesment of Sun's X86 gear yesterday is chilling. He's been harping about these problems for quite some time now. Is he out of his mind or is Sun simply completley out of touch with its customers?

#1 Walter on 2008-06-03 22:41 (Reply)

I wont say, that Ben is out mind as well i wont say, that Sun is out of touch with the customers.

The CDLP power-cycling is common to many actual systems. You will find that in the release notes for Dell PE2950 or many IBM servers (i found that with a fast search via Google).

Of course e1000g are stellar adapters but using nge has its own advantages: chip count (strangely the failure rate doesn´t correlate much with the complexity of the chips, it correlates with the number of chips), the using ofwhats already there.

There is just one thing i´m heartly concur to: I would prefer the usage of ILOM through all systems.

But at the end: You can make it all correct in the first throw and be 2 years late, or you deliver at an earlier moment and earn some money.

#2 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-06-03 23:35 (Reply)

Sun did it right before on the v20z and v40z (yeah, I know they weren't built by sun, but ...)
First round with the x4100 and x4200 were almost acceptable, but it's been going downhill since then. Even if there's an early mover factor, that's no excuse for the remote exploits and continued other bloopers.

#2.1 Mads (Homepage) on 2008-06-04 00:11 (Reply)

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