Folks,
With all the talk of TMS and Intel's IXA it's easy to forget about I2O.
Keynote Address by Craig Barrett. Wednesday, October 6, 1999, New York
intel.com
"The best estimate is about 5 percent of the server infrastructure we need over the next five years for current Internet growth is in place, and you can rationalize this in a simple way. First of all, you could take the current number of Internet users, and it's going to increase by fivefold going from a couple of hundred million to a billion over the next five years or so. That gives you a fivefold increase in the server infrastructure you need. Users will become more Internet savvy, take advantage of more differentiated services over the Internet so that they're using the Internet more. The service features, capabilities of each application on the Internet will increase, will have rich streaming video and audio capability, similar to the demonstration I showed you before, and this will all add up to about a twentyfold increase in the number of servers".
Over the next few years we should have about a 20 fold increase in the numbers of servers. Most of these hopefully will have InfiniBand technology (IxWorks).
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With all these new servers just think of the storage requirements. We will have RAID, SAN's, NAS's, plus many other peripheral devices. Is it possible WIND could make it to a $1 Billion company by 2005 or close to it on I2O alone ?
There are about 2.5 million servers shipped per year worldwide. The installed base at the moment is about 4 years worth of shipments (8 million). This does not include PC's used as servers.
Regards
JC. |
