Saturday, December 19, 2009

Seismic Shift in compute models?

With Amazon's launch spot pricing/bidding for EC2 the case/drive for an enterprise compute spigot becomes all the more compelling. Today when pricing solutions typically we comparing the an internal TCO against a fix rate of X for compute cycles. With this model... we can and should be building provisioning engines that push/burst computation (HPC requirements/apps) to where it's the cheapest.

With this move by Amazon I would expect to see other players follow suit and quickly and perhaps some of that follow the sun model we strive for in IT can finally be achieved through global cloud mesh with cost based provision layer in between computing needs and computing resources.