In a number of blogs in the past I chart the emerging growth in capabilities of infrastructure components that most people take for granted. The reason for doing this is to continue to highlight that old design rules may well need to move out of the way to pave the way for the new.
Although Intel and AMD continue to release roadmaps for processors with baked-in virtualization in silicon, the entire market is moving towards scale out models to populate their Cloud infrastructures. The customers are voting with their wallets, and proprietary systems are gradually being pushed out.
Looking at the Dell site the other day, I saw the new Dell PowerEdge R815 equipped with AMD processors. It sports 48 cores within a 2U footprint. This is really incredible - and 8 more cores than Intel currently
. They go on further to state that they have whitepapers that compare multiple 2U units from HP (DL 380 G7) and that they have more capability at lower operating costs.
These type of messages are sweeping the industry currently. However, this would indicate that scale up as a strategy is on the rise again - after all it is easier to manage a single physical server than two servers right?....
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About jaspal.dhalliwal
A senior consultant in the IT industry for over two decades. Having worked in fields as diverse as large scale infrastructure architecture & design to IT Strategy formulation provides me with a deep insight into the evolving role of IT and its relationship to the business.
Passionate about virualization and its effect on how business strategy is formulated and enhanced.
Currently at the EMC Consulting Cloud & Virtual Datacenter practice, focusing on transforming organisational IT by bringing the Cloud business value proposition to bear upon the challenges of IT being a business partner and enabler.