ASHLEE VANCE COMMENTAnother reason nobody is buying servers is because of new technologies such as virtualization.
Dell and H.P., he said, "see their cloud business going through the roof, the Web monsters buying servers at rates they've never seen before.
That means no time spent on patching, updating, buying servers, installing anti-virus, taking backups, learning how to configure your firewall so you can access your software when home and so on.
"Many clients are not buying servers and storage, they're buying systems," says Lechner.
If Otoy gets off the ground, its licensees will someday be buying servers by the truckload.
Why should customers endure the headache of buying servers from one firm, storage boxes from another, and software management from a third?
Because they're not buying servers, Peer5 can charge half the price and still make 98percentt margins on streaming.
Some companies are buying servers, storage and network together as a data center building block, converging everything together.
Add in the rewards of buying servers by the railcar and hiring IT specialists by the hundred, and cloud computing becomes a low-cost utility much like gas or electricity.
Think cloud computing instead of buying servers, WeWork instead of long-term leases, video chat instead of business trips and, in some cases, freelancers instead of full-time employees.
