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E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 11CHAPTERThe Sound of InevitabilityThere have been very few fundamental changes in computing.On the surface, that may sound like

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 10endowed their invention with the ability to self-organize, to seekout alternate routes for traffic, to adapt to all sorts of un

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 11Before we con tinue in this narrative, let us take a step back toconsider two more constants in computing—the drive for ever-i

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 12began to reach their practical limit for scaling individual executionunits (which came t o be known as ‘‘cores’’). In fact, th

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 13this (meaning the plain label, pure commodity computing parts)for problems that ‘‘we really care about’’?The a nswers to that

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 14In order to save as much money as possible, the infrastructurewoul d be constructed out of commodity components, out of‘‘chea

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 15services exposed for calling from outside, in 2006 Amazon began tooffer basic computing resources: computing, storage, and net

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 16Commodity Hardware. In the three basic areas of computingcomponents—chips (processors, memory, etc.), storage(mostly disc dri

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 17dedicated to one or two specific applications). It is the abilityto operate particular resources (such as computers, networks,a

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 18Data Storage Architect ures. The first two ages of computingwere very much dominated (for very good reasons) by thedatabase sy

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 19including many who thought that the whole concept wouldsimply fizzle out for any of a numb er of rea sons—withinthe first nine m

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 2recognizewhileweareinthemiddleofthem,evenastheyloomimminently.When researchers at the University of Pennsylvania were fever-ish

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 20After all, this is what our cultures now expect; this is what peopledemand; this is how people interact.To recap, there have b

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 21versions of servers, and configurations of versions of serversthat populate the typical, pre-cloud datacenter, even the larg-es

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 22(where appropriate) with private clouds built and operated on thesame cloud computing principles. Some organizations will crea

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 23future, planned excelsior-class mainframes would be delivered earlyand often to handle growth.‘‘See, we can handle any need yo

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E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 3traditional (local, general purpose, print, widely circulated) newspa-per. While this eventuality may be stayed—perhaps for qui

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 4fairly recognizable—particularly national/international propert iessuch as the Wall Street Journal and the previously mentioned

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 5presume has many answers: What sort of business models areenabled by all of this, and how do we get there?Before we leave thi s

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 6simply means the process of approaching a particular limit, fromwherever you started to the limit itself. In the case of the co

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 7First AgeThink about the role of computing within the typical organizationprior to the widespread adoption of the Internet. The

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 8Technologies such as parallel computing, artificial intelligence,and even semantic processing remaine d exoti c too ls that were

E1C01 02/21/2010 Page 9file transfers, smtp for e-mail, http for web content) built on top ofthis newly resilient foundation, then to a whole ecosystem