Comments on: IT is a factory; the Web is a playground

By: Robert Pearson

Robert Pearson — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:25:16 +0000

This is one of your best “Sleepers” ever.
Maybe this is the “Flying Wing” of IT?
SSD could well be the “Fly by Wire” enabler that makes this “Flying Wing” possible.
I had long hoped that Storage would provide the leadership to make this transition happen. Logical, I thought, because Storage deals with the care, feeding and preservation of Information at all costs.
Not to be. Storage has taken the role of a “cost driven. demand pull” provider and refuses to let it go. To their detriment. No imagination there.
I don’t think we will even get any decent Management tools (Mware, Manageware) from them. Maybe some 13 year Eastern European will stop trying to “Crack” and “SPAM” every known site in the world and write an RIA (Rich Internet Application), represented by a “Green Dragon” avatar, to manage the needed “clear line of sight” between Web2.0 and Enterprise2.0.
The same Mware tool that is still missing for the “less clear line of sight” between company Portfolio Management and the IT Portfolio Management. The “Flying Wing” would still be on the ground, probably in pieces, if it had to depend on the tools for flying that line of sight.

By: Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:14:29 +0000

Pete, yes, the Internet data centers are exciting - mostly because of what they’ve done with scale and commodity hardware. They’ve broken the enterprise model.

Look close at a Google data center and you’ll see much LESS infrastructure variability than any enterprise. They are super factories. The apps are cool but the infrastructure is much more controlled than any enterprise. They couldn’t manage several hundred thousand cores with so few people any other way.

Bill,

Thanks. Good catch. I’ve filled in the missing pieces above. I’ve been slammed lately and it looks like July will be v busy as well.

Robin

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:43:53 +0000

Seems to be missing the end of a sentence:

But for most of us the Web is something

something what?

By: Pete Steege

Pete Steege — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:21:46 +0000

Great post Robin. What’s really interesting is the new culture of internet datacenters, where IT meets the web and innovation is rampant right now. People are playing with the factory!