What is a redshift company?
Redshift
is a term from Physics/astronomy for the shifting of
light(reflected or direct) from the galaxy is shifting towards the red
end of the electromagnetic spectrum because of universe's massive
expansion.
This scientific
phenomenon is taken as an analogy for companies that require massive
computational power to support their network services that they provide
their customers through the Internet. Such companies(Web 2.0,
infrastrcuture as a service, hosted applications) experience
unpredictable growth and require highly optimized and secure network
infrastructure to run their services. These companies are targetted by
server companies, such as Sun to provide computational solutions.
The name Redshift, was proposed by Greg Papadopoulos, CTO, Sun
Microsystems to name such a market observation. The products that Sun has come up with to target these customers are Project Blackbox/ DataCenter.
Posted at 04:26AM Jul 10, 2007 by rainmaker in Software technologies | Comments[0]