I was reading the following article on Network World. Makes some very good observations on how the world of physical servers are changing. My time at Egenera really gave me a glimpse of the future of the data center. Between virtualization at all layers of the data center and cloud computing coming on strong, the revolution of the "server" is changing.
More and more you will see less emphasis on the physical server as a stand alone platform and integrated more with network, storage, and software to have a truly dynamic infrastructure that is much more efficient a resilient.
The big name server vendors are taking notice and realize they had better change or risk getting left behind.
Here is a snippet of the article…
If certain server and virtualization vendors get their way, end-user companies will be buying many fewer individual servers
in a few years, and many more integrated packages of infrastructure.
Virtualization has allowed many companies to reduce the number of their physical servers, but increased demand for compute
power, I/O capacity and storage, according to an April report from IDC.
