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You mean, sort of like how we all used to log on to mainframes, or rent Linux accounts from our webhosts?
by sodomizer 13y ago
You mean, sort of like how we all used to log on to mainframes, or rent Linux accounts from our webhosts?
- scott_s 13y agoYes, sort of. But the scale at which it is happening is not like that. Even a small company still owned that mainframe, and physically stored it onsite. And that Linux account on your webhost wasn't quite as capable as a computer you could own - you couldn't, for example, spin up 10,000 of them and create an ad-hoc cluster to run your giant MPI application. Organizations will start viewing computers as a utility they subscribe to, rather than something they own. Should we buy another server, or just rent them through Amazon? In the future, I think that fewer organizations will own hardware - to the extent that it will change the hardware market completely.