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Wednesday August 30, 2006
Sun Grid: The next evolution?
In one of his blog entry, Marc wrote about the next version of the Sun Grid with many new and cool technology to be added to the infrastructure. In APSTC, we are working on this project call "Grid Market Framework" which is our vision of the what the future Sun Grid will look like. To explain what is this vision about, let me give an analogy:
In Singapore, we have eating places which we call hawker centers. These hawker centers are food centers which have different food stalls offering many variety of food in a single location. The typical business model is that each food stall owners lease the space from the hawker center owner for a fix price, they are largely free to choose their own menu and set their own prices (with certain guidelines). These hawker centers are hugely popular among the locals because there are many food to choose from and it's cheap because of competition.
So how does this relate to our vision? Imagine that the hawker centers are the compute resources, owned by Sun, the food stall owners are ISVs and the food the application. Our vision is a Grid Market where ISVs can sell their applications as services and leasing the compute resources from the Sun Grid. Customers of the Sun Grid can select the services they want to buy, and using our cool Sun technology, the purchased service will be provision to the compute resource with the required OS, patches, packages etc. and ready to use almost immediately. Customer pays ISV for the service, ISV pays Sun for the compute resource.
Too far-fetched you say? To a certain extend I do agree, there are still alot of gaps to fill, but as we've seen from saleforce.com and google, I don't think it will be too long until we see something like this. So if there is anyone who can do it, surely Sun can.
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