Public Clouds Like Cheap Iron, Private Clouds Like the Expensive Stuff
July 11, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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If there is a bright lining to the advent of cloud computing–virtualized and highly automated server, storage, and networking capacity–it is that not every application can or should be on a public cloud and that the kind of machine embodied by a Power Systems server running the IBM i operating system is, in fact, what one might build a private cloud upon. The wizards at IDC have been polishing their crystal balls lately, as we report elsewhere in this issue referring to IT spending growth projections in the United States. But the people who live and breathe servers also put |
