Alby_da_Wolf said:
Indeed. Back in the mid-90's development was already happening for widely spread distributed computing with dynamic load balancing, what changed since then is that now server nodes cost a lot less, computing power is orders of magnitude higher, storage space even larger and communication speed grew too (but since ADSL brought end-users the biggest boost in speed, but not in latency, communication speed and ping for end user didn't better as much as the other factors, making all the power available not very suitable for uses that need low latency), and the availability of a far larger number of relatively cheap server nodes allows to offer a much finer granularity of service. The "cloud" is a buzzword for a thing that isn't a novelty, but a, surely noteworthy, evolution and refinement of older concepts and implementations. |
Yea you should have seen some servers that we were refurbing just 3 or 4 years back for Isilon/EMC (Dell recently bought them).
Lol the specs on them were so bad I didn't know who would even want them. There were only a few really bad ones considering most refurbs actually had decent specs, but man those really old ones were so bad in specs I swear my computer better specs. They must have been able to do something. Maybe it was for Pentagon lol. I heard they still use floppy disc (I'm talking about the OG floppy the ones that actually flopped). I guess they are on their own network so makes hacking impossible.
