Executive Summary The different hardware modalities can, in theory, be tied together. One of the answers is Kubernetes, but this article explains why this is an oversimplification. Introduction Up to this point, we have covered the four primary hardware modalities. However, the natural question after one has analyzed each environment is how they can be…
Executive Summary Proprietary on-premises servers are the most popular category of computers that serve other computers. This article covers how proprietary on-premises servers work. Introduction The largest server computer hardware category is on-premises proprietary servers, the types sold by HPE, Lenovo, and Dell. This is the server type that rose to eclipse mainframes and midrange…
Executive Summary The Open Compute Project is the most important element that is impacting hyper-cloud environments. Open source has greatly influenced The Open Compute Project. The Open Compute Project The Open Compute Project brings open-source principles from software to hardware. This also connects to other research by Brightwork Research & Analysis. This research calls into…
Executive Summary Commodity servers are rising in popularity while proprietary servers are declining. Cloud service providers use these commodity servers. Introduction Commodity servers are rising in popularity while proprietary servers are declining. Cloud service providers like AWS and Google Cloud use these commodity servers. However, for decades, proprietary server manufacturers like HP controlled the information…
Executive Summary Cloud is critically different from on-premises in the ways described in this article. We draw distinctions between AWS/GCP and SAP/Oracle. Introduction While SAP and Oracle can’t stop talking about the cloud, what tends to be little discussed is that historically SAP and Oracle environments have built their entire business model based upon on-premises….
Executive Summary Cloud has an important impact on software selection. We cover the way software selection works under on-premises versus how it will change. Introduction With SaaS being around for some time now, and with so many articles written on SaaS, it is astounding to find so many areas and implications of SaaS that have…