The world seems to be catching on - as opposed to building a large quantity of huge multi-core multi-gigahertz CPUs and using virtualization to manage them, which at best looks too similar to the mainframes from which we have escaped years ago and at worst introduces a point of failure that can bring down many critical services by a single hardware glitch, we now have "infraservers" - a potentially huge number of which can be used to power many services.
One direction in which this can go is an Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers (RAIS?), which is ideal for crash-only services.
In any case, though I like the possibilities introduced by virtualization, I'd still much rather have 10 real machines to work on than 10 guests on a single real machine.
Posted on 2009-05-16T01:35 by ivoras
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