Comments on: You don’t build your own refinery, or power plant. Why build your own data center? http://www.building43.com/blogs/2009/11/14/you-dont-build-your-own-refinery-or-power-plant-why-build-your-own-data-center/ We're building43 - what are you building? Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jerry Gredenko http://www.building43.com/blogs/2009/11/14/you-dont-build-your-own-refinery-or-power-plant-why-build-your-own-data-center/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Jerry Gredenko Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:21:58 +0000 http://www.building43.com/?p=2141#comment-783 To answer the question in the title: The product that is provided by a refinery or a powerplant is a commodity that flows without losing its quality. Despite all the hype (examplified in this article) computing is still evidently not so homogeneous and commoditized. Indeed, all the Cloud vendors-to-be think about it as a way to lockin customers to their platforms. Until computing becomes uniform like grid electricity or regular gasoline, companies will need to produce their own computing from their own serverbanks. To answer the question in the title: The product that is provided by a refinery or a powerplant is a commodity that flows without losing its quality. Despite all the hype (examplified in this article) computing is still evidently not so homogeneous and commoditized. Indeed, all the Cloud vendors-to-be think about it as a way to lockin customers to their platforms.

Until computing becomes uniform like grid electricity or regular gasoline, companies will need to produce their own computing from their own serverbanks.

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