Long tail - Grid computing is suitable for Head or Tail ? Saturday, January 13 2007
Network is one of my favorite subject from my collage days. The recent buzz around Grid computing is one of my interesting area, and when I was thinking about where this dynamically expandable infrastructure fit into the whole long tail, I guess the tail end would be purchasing more. for ex: small web 2.0 startups, small financial institutes etc.
the reasons would be…
- there is no way small companies can build such infrastructure- its not easy to any vendors to convincing large companies, they do not store corporate data outside their infrastructure. They also follow lot of standards, and would not change their policy easily. More importantly, Microsoft servers would not run in Grid world, actually the server license prohibits it to run; I am expecting that MS would change their licenses.
- The heads (Large companies) always have years of business plan ahead, building such own infrastructure is a years of work. I guess it would take 3 to 5 years to build up. Until otherwise grid vendors have very close business tie up, they wouldn’t host in third party grids.
- How many enterprise would store their business data in third party servers particularly finance information?
- This is new complex system, no one had ever done it before, corporate wants to wait and see the adoptability. I guess more enterprise would request a full control over datacenters. Here Sun’s grid not giving full control like Amazon’s EC2.
- If time to market, reducing risks associated with disaster (ex: earth quick, flood etc) matters then Enterprise would probably use third party hosting. But still it’s a risky business for them to do.
For start ups, utility computing is really a gift. Any start up could host equally comparable solutions as like Google or Yahoo products. Finally, I think Utility is more suitable for tails; it would take many years for enterprises to take advantage of Utility Computing
- there is no way small companies can build such infrastructure- its not easy to any vendors to convincing large companies, they do not store corporate data outside their infrastructure. They also follow lot of standards, and would not change their policy easily. More importantly, Microsoft servers would not run in Grid world, actually the server license prohibits it to run; I am expecting that MS would change their licenses.
- The heads (Large companies) always have years of business plan ahead, building such own infrastructure is a years of work. I guess it would take 3 to 5 years to build up. Until otherwise grid vendors have very close business tie up, they wouldn’t host in third party grids.
- How many enterprise would store their business data in third party servers particularly finance information?
- This is new complex system, no one had ever done it before, corporate wants to wait and see the adoptability. I guess more enterprise would request a full control over datacenters. Here Sun’s grid not giving full control like Amazon’s EC2.
- If time to market, reducing risks associated with disaster (ex: earth quick, flood etc) matters then Enterprise would probably use third party hosting. But still it’s a risky business for them to do.
For start ups, utility computing is really a gift. Any start up could host equally comparable solutions as like Google or Yahoo products. Finally, I think Utility is more suitable for tails; it would take many years for enterprises to take advantage of Utility Computing
