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It sound nice, but I've been building systems like that since 2012 (usually vmware vCloud director plus custom code). Using hardware like Fujitsu's cx1000, Nexu

It sound nice, but I've been building systems like that since 2012 (usually vmware vCloud director plus custom code). Using hardware like Fujitsu's cx1000, Nexus 1000 distributed vswitch, brocade network switches, and San storage. The systems I built back then could dynamically provision separate network/conpute/storage segments for PCI compliance and more. If I were to build something like this today I'd probably consider using Kubernetes too and integrating it with public cloud for scale out. This way a business can have their "own" cloud that is much more cost effective at certain scales and access to "unlimited" public cloud resources at the same time (at the cost of increase in system complexity). Is this just more of the same, or is there some innovation there? It is interesting that computing trends go in centralise/decentralise cycles. We can observe this as far back as 1980s. I can't wait for the next "decentralise" cycle as I'm under an impression a lot more innovation happens during that phase.

panick21_ 3y ago
I think the vision is that a company doesn't need to heir and pay you and not pay vmware and they can have that kind of thing turn key. The innovation is mostly in the integration between the hardware and software of both the server and the switch. This podcast goes into what that enables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWh2Sms3aw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWh2Sms3aw > I can't wait for the next "decentralise" cycle as I'm under an impression a lot more innovation happens during that phase. I think we are beyond that cycle. Centralization and decentralization happen at the same time. We have much more much cheaper chips now everywhere that do a lot more, and then we have local and distributed compute deployed everywhere and we also have large datacenters at the center of it. Neiter datacenters nor distributed compute is gone go away anytime soon.

panick21_ 3y ago

I think the vision is that a company doesn't need to heir and pay you and not pay vmware and they can have that kind of thing turn key. The innovation is mostly in the integration between the hardware and software of both the server and the switch. This podcast goes into what that enables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWh2Sms3aw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWh2Sms3aw > I can't wait for the next "decentralise" cycle as I'm under an impression a lot more innovation happens during that phase. I think we are beyond that cycle. Centralization and decentralization happen at the same time. We have much more much cheaper chips now everywhere that do a lot more, and then we have local and distributed compute deployed everywhere and we also have large datacenters at the center of it. Neiter datacenters nor distributed compute is gone go away anytime soon.