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That shift made possible the explosive growth of firms such as Google and Facebook, who bought large numbers of cheap servers to power their businesses.
All that crazy investment led to the cheap servers and broadband connections that let us enjoy services like Google, MySpace and YouTube today.
Many networking chores, like security, that are now done with expensive specialized machines will be done with cheap servers and remotely programmed to handle different types of workload, like supercomputing or serving video streams.
Yes, the program is free but many firms use it mainly because it allows them to buy cheap servers powered by Intel chips rather than more expensive Sun boxes.
But Dell seems to be doing more than flogging cheap servers at daft prices: Gartner's figures suggest that its average revenue per unit went up by 11.5% in the year to the first quarter, while HP's rose by only 1%.
For example, Google designed a software system it calls the Google File System that keeps copies of data in several places so Google does not have to worry when one of its cheap servers fails.
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Multiply this cheap server trend across several industries and you have a boom.
But storage is supposed to be a really cheap server component.
"If Sun wants to make a go of its software business, it needs a wide installed base," says Turner, adding that Sun hasn't been able to compete in the volume-driven business of cheap server sales.
Atlantic.Net says it is targeting this service at early-stage and bootstrapped startups that want develop on a dependable cheap server.
Between ski runs, Coleman ruminated on what a startup might do to capitalize on a trend sweeping through the worlds largest corporations: the shift of data processing from a few large mainframe computers to networks of small, cheap, server machines like those sold by Sun.
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