Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose each server uses X watts idle and X+Y watts busy. If you have N programs that currently run on N
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Data on the overhead of virtualization is hard to come by. Rackable proposes an interesting alternative that they call physicalization. I wonder whether the CPU
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This article from Ars Technica discusses a talk over the summer by Merrill Lynch’s chief technology architect, Jeffrey Birnbaum on “stateless cloud computing” – most
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