Weighing centralized, distributed data centers
by:
Carol Hildebrand
Carol Hildebrand
Client/servers vs. mainframes in the data center.
Mainframes have traditionally been the humming focus of data center life, even when they were surrounded by servers of all ilk. But these days, servers have enough power and speed to act as small mainframes in their own right. People talk about carving up the mainframe until it becomes nothing more than thousands of servers located in one box. Small wonder that there's also been some movement toward distributing the traditional data...
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