In the link above Pure Silicon has announced something TRULY usable in an SSD. Size and Speed. Size and Speed larger then the current drives. As prices come down the death of the rotating magnetic plate is inbound.
2 of these in a blade server running ESX has enough storage and performance to go up against small SAN installs.
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This is a bit off topic but it's been on my mind a lot lately.
Where will IT workers be in 15-20 years? Will the cloud render us obsolete?
There seem to be many compelling reasons for a business to adopt the cloud computing model.
My perspecitve is that the cloud will take many different manifestations. There will be internal clouds which really translates to an IT department that has savvy marketing to their internal customers. "We already have cloud computing" with little change beyond the VI. There will be service provider hosted clouds, but those will prove to be interesting as the fundamental underlying network technologies to make the transistion between my data center and the SP data center seamless still have quite a bit of cost and complexity. Think of VPLS, EoMPLS or some of the other acronym soup of encapsulating technologies.
10-15 years is a hard thing to predict. 10 years ago I would have told you Novell Netware was still viable, virtualization was for OS/390 systems and uber-high end UNIX platforms and that local SCSI bus DAS was the way to go for server storage. There will always be a need for geeks, so be sure you are adaptable and not stuck in the COBOL and CICS are the only things I know how to do rut. :)
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