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You care about TIN? Why the Open Compute Project is irrelevant

P. Lee

Re: Efficiency vs Cost

Do you have elastic computer requirements?

For most companies, I think the answer is, "not really." Increasing requirements? Perhaps, but not much that varies a lot up and down. Plus, hardware is cheap.

From what I can see there are several things which reduce costs for cloud: cheap licensing (open source), load-balancing (for sharing hardware) and automation /single architecture.

Perhaps going "cloud" is the only way to realise these benefits but it essentially requires application re-writes. If you are re-writing for the web, you may find you can achieve load-balancing distribution with some apache boxes, some VRRP and BIND. Perhaps you (shock horror!) don't need global reach for your apps, because all your users in an office down the road. The trick may just be to impose the same discipline on internal IT as a cloud provider would.

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