Network Transformation
Facebook, the gate no 2 to Internet: Kings of Disaggregation
Continuing from the last week, let us look at another gate that you use for the Internet marketplace. Allow me to take you back to the Dubai mall and the experience of buying a sports shoe for yourself. We talked…
Google, the gate no 1 to Internet: Kings of Disaggregation
Continuing from last week, let us explore what weaknesses the Internet may have and how the Web-Scale companies exploited these weaknesses to become an integral part of the Internet. The Internet is a huge Shopping Mall much bigger than all Physical malls put together.…
Gateways to the Internet: The Kings of Disaggregation
Continuing from last week, let us discuss why did the Webscale companies become so big. I will take an example of Dubai Mall, I am taking you back to the shopping mall discussion, the location vs stores vs experience discussion…
SDN and Openflow: Effects of Disaggregation
Hi all, continuing from last week, today I want to emphasize the importance of new open controllers being developed and deployed as part of the journey of various Webscale companies. Please refer to the following presentation by Google in 2015…
Open Source OS – Effects of Disaggregation
Continuing from the previous week, let us explore today, the complimentary technology that was required by the web-scale companies to grow their server farms. Last week we discussed, how Google took out the costs from the hardware by designing a spec…
Commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) Servers: Effects of Disaggregation
Continuing from the previous week, let us explore today, why the need for simplified COTS servers came into being. There’s no official data on how many servers there are in Google data centers, but Gartner estimated in a July 2016…
How big is a large Data Center? – Effects of Disaggregation
Continuing from the previous week, let us explore today, how big these data centers could get:- Consider the following infographic from Go-Globe: Even this data is slightly older, now we have more than 400 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every…
Web Scale led to Data Warehousing – Effects of Disaggregation
Continuing from the previous week, let us explore today, how did these companies grow so fast that we have coined a new term webscale. Let us look at the following:- What commodity did they provide?: Primarily Information: filtered, searchable, indexed,…
Rise of Web-Scale Companies
Let us continue to explore the trends that led to the formation of massive companies based on the disaggregation of services from the telecom operators. With the “Internet” being the new platform for services; the growing popularity of the Internet…
Is the platform important or services?
I hope you are enjoying this discussion on disaggregation with the twist I am putting on top of it. You may also say that may this is not the disaggregation that I had in my mind. I wish that you can…