Utility computing – not just a possibility…

I’m going to put my neck on the line here. My statement:

I am certain that in the foreseeable future computing over the internet will be a commodity similar to electricity and gas; charged by the RAM hour and billed for how much you use.

You can expect the internet to be like one machine. You will upload applications to the net, be given an associated URL, RAM hours from the application will be measured and you will be billed on a monthly basis at a cost much less than what you would have to pay for the same service under the current pay for hardware plans. There will be no resource constraints – scaling will be seemless and you will have complete control over your online applications / web sites.

Companies that provide such a service will be able to charge less as hardware will be used much more optimally (current studies show that current server efficiency is often as low as 25%) and cost savings will be passed onto the end user.

The “cloud” that supports such a structure will offer greater redundancy to the point that any downtime is an increasingly rare occurrence.

Webmasters should be pleased with where the industry is going…

I am waiting for feedback from the sceptics!

Cheers,
Paul

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