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To: Stormweaver who wrote (14)	12/2/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) of 20

Re: Thin servers I think you're on the right track. The current issue of George Gilder's seminal newsletter, the Gilder Technology Report, speaks about the "Storewidth" paradigm. Essentially the argument goes that bandwidth outside the box is growing at a much faster pace than bandwidth inside the box and this will result in the box being exploded into its component parts with storage essentially becoming a network service. Gary Winnick, Chairman of GBLX has made references to "storage on demand" and has hinted that we'll see a GBLX announcement with EMC on this subject in 1Q00. As broadband continues to penetrate and high-speed access becomes universal, the growth in network storage will dwarf that of "captive" storage which is connected to only a single box. Already there are a number of startups such as idrive.com, driveway.com, and xdrive.com, which are making network storage available for free to end-users. This trend will greatly accelerate as ASPs and related net-based services continue to proliferate. For example, today's personal video recorders (PVRs) like TiVo and Replay will be supplanted by services that will rent you a few hundred gigabytes of network storage for video recording and timeshifting on demand for a low flat monthly fee. Need more? Just click here and expand as needed. As "legacy" applications fade away and are replaced with net-centric applications which rely on technologies such as Java, XML, SOAP, etc. the need for old-style "monolithic" servers will fade as application intelligence and control migrates to the network periphery while the center focuses on data and network management and service continuity. While the initial stages of this transformation will take place on traditional "fat" servers, they will eventually be "thinned out" as data continues to migrate into storage networks and away from processor-specific servers. In many ways the model will be neither "thin client/fat server" nor "fat client/thin server". Perhaps "thin client/thin server/fat network" might be a more appropriate taxonomy.

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