11 Feb
2013
11 Feb
'13
8:07 p.m.
In article <511924A4.8000109 at vaxen.net>,
Doc <doc at vaxen.net> writes:
Consider the "VMware Principle" - the
idea that a huge percentage of
current company/corporate servers are running at a tiny fraction of
their CPU capacity.
Companies like Fusion-io are changing this by replacing (relative to
the CPU) slow rotating storage with flash memory. Fusion-io has many
customers who pay for the expensive hardware by reducing the amount of
CPUs they are using to achieve the same aggregate throughput. Fewer
processors means less money they spend on Oracle licenses to achieve
their desired aggregate performance. In some cases, the reduction in
licensing alone can pay for the hardware in under a year.
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