As far as I can understand, the "cloud" is more of an abstraction of how to deploy services at scale, right? And being able deploy at scale requires consolidating services I'm assuming? With all this "Hadoop", "Open Stack", and "Docker" stuff, it seems like people are trying to a take bajillion servers, stuff them together, and then tailor that cluster to a particular workload.
So... why not just use a mainframe? Isn't that (scaling up, I suppose) similar concept? Is x86 commoditization a cause?
I came across this thread and it got me wondering. Why isn't "scale up" so popular? Also, it seems every few months or so I keep seeing a damn new something-as-a-service popping in the blogosphere. Like "Metal-as-a-service" (MAAS). The hell does that even mean? Lol
So... why not just use a mainframe? Isn't that (scaling up, I suppose) similar concept? Is x86 commoditization a cause?
I came across this thread and it got me wondering. Why isn't "scale up" so popular? Also, it seems every few months or so I keep seeing a damn new something-as-a-service popping in the blogosphere. Like "Metal-as-a-service" (MAAS). The hell does that even mean? Lol