The virtual reconstruction of Implenia's data center pulled information about the layout of servers and storage, the devices' temperatures, power consumption and data processing over the Internet to IBM's servers, where they were built into a 3-D virtual world model.
Instead, companies like Google will host the world's data processing and storage--we'll just pay the bills.
Instead, companies like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) will host the world's data processing and storage--we'll just pay the bills.
Amazon's Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
Amazon's (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
Until the last few years, they have been stymied by the cost of storage, slower processing speeds and the flood of data itself, spread sloppily across scores of different databases inside one company.
Eventually, Dutra says, Sun plans to reduce those numbers to zero, renting out the company's processing and storage capabilities from external data centers.
In developing early data processing systems, the high cost of memory and storage led to a premium being placed on the efficiency of application data access and retrieval.
The latter falls under the Google Docs rubric, which includes hosted word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and data storage.
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MySQL's lighter-weight database system may also fit into Sun's ambitions of becoming a major player in "utility computing, " a model of information technology infrastructure that pipes in software applications, processing and storage over the Internet rather than from a company's own data centers.
Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
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