Monday, February 07, 2005
Grid Commodity Trading
Computerworld reports that Sun will allow its commoditized CPU cycles (and I assume its commoditized storage) to be bought and sold in a market.
Last week Sun announced it will sell processing at $1 per CPU per hour and will sell storage at $1 per gig per month from 5 data centers. This follow's Jonathan's blog post on what a commodity really is.
This week Sun says that if someone buys 10,000 CPU hours, they can in turn re-sell some portion of that to others. This is just one short step away from futures (and other) markets in processing and storage.
This is a great revolutionary development -- and probably a little ahead of its time. When will Microsoft and IBM follow suit?
Last week Sun announced it will sell processing at $1 per CPU per hour and will sell storage at $1 per gig per month from 5 data centers. This follow's Jonathan's blog post on what a commodity really is.
This week Sun says that if someone buys 10,000 CPU hours, they can in turn re-sell some portion of that to others. This is just one short step away from futures (and other) markets in processing and storage.
This is a great revolutionary development -- and probably a little ahead of its time. When will Microsoft and IBM follow suit?
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