[LINK] Green web servers with netbook components

Adrian Chadd adrian at creative.net.au
Tue May 19 23:36:32 AEST 2009


On Tue, May 19, 2009, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> My experience of servers in data centres is that reliability and 
> availability are very important, hence redundant power supplies, network 
> connections, SAN connections and separate networks for management and 
> back-up.
> 
> PCs and PC motherboards don't really fit into this infrastructure model.

Only because the infrastructure model that almost all companies these
days are believing is what came out of the microcomputer industry and
NOT what has come out of the mainframe computer industry.

Funny, really...



Adrian




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