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it is now, no doubt, upgraded. So, what
‘was’ high-performance is now painfully
slow compared to a modern machine and
a data centre using the latest commercial
hardware is capable of very high
performance indeed.
That is not to say that every server suits
every application for type of load, quite
the opposite, nor is it true to assume that
software is being improved in resource
efficiency, again quite the opposite is
the reality. This subject of matching the
server to the application and ensuring
high utilisation through right sizing and
virtualisation is a key feature of the open
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source designs of Facebook but it has to
be noted that having such a single and
simple application helps them achieve
very high performance that few others
are able to emulate. But that must be
the target: refreshing the hardware every
sub-three years and heavily virtualising
must become the norm in enterprise and
colocation facilities if we are to meet our
zero carbon targets.
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That must be the target: refreshing the hardware every sub-
three years and heavily virtualising must become the norm in
enterprise and collocation facilities if we are to meet our zero
carbon targets.
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