Sometimes you can try to overload a few too many points into a phase, and instead of something useful you end up with a kind of 20-thought-idea-pile-up.
So I am awarding a Mad Kitty to myself for yesterday's headline on the post about floating data centers.
Didn't mean to - I was just trying to convey a simple point: floating data centers do not address the real problems facing most enterprises today, while grids make it possible to do so. While that is clearly true, my headline did it's best to completely obscure the point!
Oops.
Floating data centers are a novel attempt to help with energy consumption and heat problems, but there' s just too much baggage in the execution.
On the other hand, enabling your applications to run on a self-managing, fully reliable grid of commodity computers (what we call an application fabric) enables very effective improvements in heat dissipation etc., without a whole bunch of serious risk and operational concerns. Deploy the most energy efficient, commodity computers in your own data centers or use a cloud - your choice, both help.
Plus your apps become much more scalable, reliable, flexible ... all while being a bunch cheaper to build, deploy, and operate.
A Better Headline
So maybe a better headline would have been something like "Floating Data Centers Miss the Point, Add a Bunch of Risk, and Will Keep You Up At Night; On the Other Hand, Deploying Your Applications on a Grid of Commodity Computers With Appistry's Application Fabric Will Deliver the Goods".
But maybe that might have been a bit long-winded ...
Why not add even more risk?
Why not add even more risk? Send the ships out into the Pacific and use satellite communications. Use that Texas-sized plastic garbage patch as a fuel source. Turn one of the container ships into a floating power plant that [maybe] uses a thermal conversion process (grind up the plastic, turn it into liquid fuel), some of which don't require drying of the materials first. Offshore your data, clean up the Pacific... everybody wins. If they're worried about the carbon emissions, they can buy carbon credits with the profits.
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