I attended the Capital Cloud Computing Group meeting tonight. It was a good session, with a presentation by World Wide Technology and their "server room in a box" solution: everything you need in a shipping container. It is an interesting idea, but one that has a limited life span.
One slide showed a typical rack with blade servers, network equipment, and a NAS. When I saw the diagram, I immediately thought of the old DEC PDP-8 and PDP-12 computers. They, too, were rack-mounted hardware with CPU, storage (disk or tape), and communications equipment. Yet in ten short years, they were replaced by the modern PC.
So I'm thinking that in ten years (maybe less) we will see a cloudframe (CPUs, storage, and communications) all in a current-day PC tower. And a few years after that, it will be in an Apple Mac Mini box. Eventually it will be the size of an HP calculator.
Is that a cloud in your pocket?
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