Back in the ancient era of the mainframes, this "multitenancy" concept would have been called "time sharing".
It looks like everything old is new again.
It looks like everything old is new again.
(I'm reading into this further than it needs to go for fun, primarily)
Occasionally, the new term is warranted, of course, but that's far less common than simply trying to appear different.
> Slaps cryptocurrency sticker in 2019-2021 era
Gets 1 million $ funding
> in 2025, slaps AI powered sticker
Gets 10 million $ funding.
But its still a crud app nonetheless.
I know it sounds really over the line example but I am sure that there are examples like this where the same thing gets some new terms and it gets a lot of funding that is, there is an incentive to put on new stickers.
The goal is not to appear different, the goal is probably profit, which they can get if they can get better funding I suppose, and they get better funding by slapping stickers.
Hyperscaler rack designs definitely blur this line further. In some ways I think Oxide is trying to reinvent the mainframe, in a world where the suppliers got too much leverage and started getting uppity.
The old machine was about desk height and 15 feet wide. The new machine was a 4u box running a Unisys mainframe emulator on NT 4, on a quad processor pentium pro. Pretty sad. But they did keep the giant line printer, at least while I was working there.
There's different takes on it, that's just mine. I really appreciate and respect their work.
That’s a mainframe, sport. At their height they were modular and in at least IBM’s case they could run with damaged parts and were delivered with dark hardware that could replace damaged parts until a maintenance person could arrive, or be remotely enabled to increase throughput for a fee.
All of this cloud stuff, except the geographical redundancy parts, is recreating software that business had versions of forty years ago.
(While the rack is the unit of delivery overall, we can ship individual sleds and they’re operator replaceable, if say, one of your sleds dies, incidentally.)