Oracle unveils Exadata 2 [video]

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I disagree...

"The future is about moving from the data center to the desktop - delivering previously impossibly analytics on massive amounts of data to everyone that needs it. Companies want to learn something. Predict. Adapt as fast possible, without super computers and without great expense or a single massive check to a systems vendor."

I disagree. More and more enterprise customers are looking to "Cloud Computing", or basically centralized compute resources, and reducing the need for edge computing. Make the client as thin as possible and build a massive compute engine in the datacenter. A recent demo I heard about had a Sun presenter ask the audience members to take out their laptops and start MS-Word while he did the same on a Sun Ray thin client connected via the internet to a server over a thousand miles away. Word was up and running faster on the thin client than on any laptop in the room, and by a significant margin. With the price of electricity going up the way it is, a 4 watt thin client to replace my 100+ watt desktop PC is starting to look pretty good...

Posted by: 914four   Posted on: 10/15/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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