Today in Cloud
Stacey wrote a piece for GigaOM today about Enomaly’s SpotCloud venture and how CEO Reuven Cohen thinks these types of cloud brokerages could help redefine Moore’s Law from focusing on transistors on a chip to focusing on compute capacity. It’s an intriguing notion, but I think it’s too early to take it too seriously. For one, there’s no evidence yet that a resource-aggregation service like SpotCloud can double in capacity every 18 months — or over any short-enough time span. Further, with capacity currently ranging between 10,00 and 25,000 servers at any given time, it’s a pretty nebulous situation. If we adopt a new Moore’s Law for capacity, we might also need an anti-Moore’s Law, which states that capacity has the possibility of shrinking by half at any given time.
