What Web 2.0 Means for Hardware and the Datacenter 125
Tom's Hardware has a quick look at the changes being seen in the datacenter as more and more companies embrace a Web 2.0-style approach to hardware. So far, with Google leading the way, most companies have opted for a commodity server setup. HP and IBM however are betting that an even better setup exists and are striking out to find it. "IBM's Web 2.0 approach involves turning servers sideways and water cooling the rack so you can do away with air conditioning entirely. HP offers petabytes of storage at a fraction of the usual cost. Both say that when you have applications that expect hardware to fail, it's worth choosing systems that make it easier and cheaper to deal with those failures."
WTF ? The Web 2.0 approach to hardware? (Score:5, Insightful)
Web 2.0 (Score:5, Insightful)
Sounds pretty stupid, but maybe Tom's hardware guide has a good explanation...wait, there's no link to the article, or anything at all! At least we'll get some good discussion going because this is Slashdot, right?
This is probably the worst article I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Web 2.0 and hardware (Score:5, Insightful)
But from the summary, it seems that "Web 2.0 servers" are like "Web 1.0 servers" but they would need more
1. storage (for user comments)
2. I/O (less caching, more throughput)
3. processing power
But then that is just common sense. Regardless, "Web 2.0" is clearly a misused term to fullest extent possible these days. Might as well be "web enabled" and "linux" at end of the 90s.
New Buzz Hardware... (Score:2, Insightful)
Web 2.0 is gonna be better then Web 1.0 Just like Vista was WAY WAY better then Windows XP!
Though I mean common seriously, this stuff is getting a bit dicey. Web 2.0 isn't really even a standard of OTHER standards. It's a term for how much java, shockwave, and ads you cam JAM INTO A WEBSITE!
What Web 2.0 means for hardware, is that a bunch of companies late to taking in the $$$ from Web 1.0 are gonna not miss the next gravy train. Overselling to data centers a rack of watercooled 128 core
Then again thats just my opinion.
P.S. Don't mod troll me, I am fragile like an IPO for a search engine.
Re:New Buzz Hardware... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:A link in the story please? (Score:1, Insightful)
Try slashdotting my server http://127.0.0.1/ [127.0.0.1]
Re:New Buzz Hardware... (Score:2, Insightful)
What?! (Score:3, Insightful)
I fail to see why this requires supercooled servers, and until now I didn't even think it was possible to use the "Web 2.0" buzzword on hardware.
Re:RTFA... (Score:5, Insightful)
Web 2,0 (Score:3, Insightful)
Mainframe Tech (Score:4, Insightful)
A Z9 mainframe.
Maybe IBM should just make some nice REALLY low-end mainframe-type PC servers with a "clustering" port.
Mainframe tech is great, except it's just too damn expensive, especially when you're not doing enterprise-level data crunching.
Not saying I disagree (Score:3, Insightful)
However, to an extent, fighting for the original spirit/meaning of 'Web 2.0' to an extent is like fighting for correct usage of 'begging the question', while you may be in the right, the masses still adopt the common usage. And in Web 2.0 in the true sense of the word, the most popular opinion tends to win, and thus Web 2.0 isn't that anymore
Web 2.0 has deteriorated to mean 'second coming of