This presentation vividly describes what is going on in the IT industry with the advent of cloud technology, focusing in Google App Engine. Then reviews competitors’ moves both in terms of background technology and the service capitalization.
It was revealed that major Japanese companies such as Fujitsu and NTT Data are introducing Microsoft Azure in their data centers, but Oracle and IBM are the technically strong chasers. So far there are very few moves
for Japanese IT companies to implement their own cloud products.
IBM's zEnterprise product line has potential to replace and wipe out container-based data centers, but their pricing policy unknown. Oracle's next hardware strategy unknown.
In Japan, tailoring open-source softwares auch as Cassandra and Hadoop found at newly rising companies, IIJ, and Rakuten.
45. コンテナ型データセンター記事
eWeek (08/03/2007) Preimesberger, Chris
Researchers at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and undoubtedly other
companies are exploring technologies that might lead to data centers that require
no cooling equipment, which would lower power usage dramatically.
EE Times (02/13/2009) Merritt, Rick
University of California, Berkeley professor Randy Katz says future computers
need to be designed to meet the energy efficiency needs of data centers, and
the power grid needs to adapt and become more like the Internet.
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