The rise of on demand utility services is on the horizon . We have already seen many successful models for software as a service (SaS) . The same will be extended to traditional infrastructure services such as storage on demand and processing on demand . Amazon already started storage on demand services . Amazon through its S3 storage service solution provides 1 GB of space for 15 Cents per month . Amazon storage is accessed by a standard SOAP and REST interface and networking is handled by HTTP and bit torrent protocol . Amazon infrastructure is building on inexpensive commodity hardware , and as more nodes got added overall reliability got increases as there is no single point of failure . Reason why Amazon can provide highly reliable and cost effective services . Similarly Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud which provide entire compute power as a webservices (CPU , Memory , Storage, Network), this is still in beta .
Traditional hardware vendors are taking a different approach in this regard , as an example HP’s pay per use storage service . HP will install the storage device at the customer premise based on the need . Each month the customer will be charged for average capacity used in addition to a minimum percentage of installed capacity . Though it can't be termed as a true utility service as Amazon.
Traditional hardware vendors are taking a different approach in this regard , as an example HP’s pay per use storage service . HP will install the storage device at the customer premise based on the need . Each month the customer will be charged for average capacity used in addition to a minimum percentage of installed capacity . Though it can't be termed as a true utility service as Amazon.
Similarly, for on demand processing . It reached a stage of maturity .The prominent example is the BNP Paribas on demand processing contract with IBM . The contract allows BNP Paribas to access the capacity of 2,500 Blade Center services with provision of double the service if required . This service is provided through IBM’s Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Centre which has upto 13,000 processors (Intel ,AMD,IBM) .
Gartner’s May 2007 poll shows growing uptake of this such utility service . A total of 27 % of 120 Client organisations are now using some form of Infrastructure Utility and 89 % expect to do so .
Gartner’s May 2007 poll shows growing uptake of this such utility service . A total of 27 % of 120 Client organisations are now using some form of Infrastructure Utility and 89 % expect to do so .
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