What Intel Can Teach Google About the Cloud

GigaOM (Jun 14 2009) Cloud Computing

1. Today’s telecoms, networking vendors, and cloud providers can learn a few things from the past by studying how Intel and AMD responded when their processors evolved so quickly that they couldn’t get data off of them fast enough. Cloud vendors facing a similar problem on a larger scale are discovering that WAN optimization, a form of Application Delivery Networking, will be required for clouds to be efficient and usable. In the late ’90s, Sun Microsystems coined the term, “The network is the computer.” Although ahead of its time, the company was right — if you take into account today’s relative abundance of bandwidth and the emergence of huge cloud computing operators, the entire Internet starts to look like one big computer. Rewind the TiVo about 15 years. Intel and AMD were following Moore’s law, doubling performance every 18 months. Even though processors were getting faster, it was ... (Read Full Article)

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