14 SCALE OUT, SCALE UP AND SCALE THROUGH
In pioneer days, they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn’t budge a log, they didn’t try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn’t be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper in OCLC Newsletter, March/April 1987
Not all workloads are the same, yet many organisations have taken a virtualised or cloud approach that seems to believe that they are. An OLTP workload is different from a big-data workload, which is different from a workload that is focused on video streaming. Therefore, a one-size-fits-all strategy of a single-architecture cloud may not provide the overall benefits that are required. Users must look to a future-state platform that does ...
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