Comments on: Virtualization and the Singularity http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/virtualization-and-the-singularity/ A SearchServerVirtualization.com and SearchVMware.com blog Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:14:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joe http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/virtualization-and-the-singularity/#comment-1219 Joe Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:34:21 +0000 http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/08/01/virtualization-and-the-singularity/#comment-1219 Robert Bach has some interesting things to say about a singularity from a tester’s perspective.

http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/105

]]> By: Joe Foran http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/virtualization-and-the-singularity/#comment-1217 Joe Foran Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:13:13 +0000 http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/08/01/virtualization-and-the-singularity/#comment-1217 That’s a very astute observation, and thanks for the additional human-enhancement devices. I agree that today’s data centers are a legacy of the past, and it will be very interesting to see where LAN/WAN/MAN/PAN designs go in the coming years – I personally foresee a merger of systems, storage, and application virtualization with distributed grid computing at nanoscale levels, where the hardware is so pervasive in everything we own, do, and are that it will be very difficult to tell where a data center really is, because it will be everywhere. The impact on information security will be immense, forcing a shift from guarding the boxes that the data is on to guarding the data wherever it is. Impacts on other areas will be equally immense, but my basic prediction is that virtualization will provide the secure sandbox for new application installations, keeping the data safe, separating home and work computing, etc.

My one problem with Ray Kurzweil’s book is that while he can envision a grand future and show a clear and concisely detailed path to that future, there’s little in the way of hard details to that last couple of chapters (specifically Ich Ein Bin Singulatarian and beyond). These cover the risks, the changes, etc. that are inherent in the coming years before the Singularity (with one exception – he does a good job of finding the holes in Luddite-ish Relinquishment). I’d love to see another book tailored to providing the details of how this evolution is predicted to go. Of course, the vanity in me would love to put my two cents in about that in a blog, too, but we don’t have all year to read my ramblings :)

Thanks again for that great comment!

]]> By: Bert Armijo http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/virtualization-and-the-singularity/#comment-1216 Bert Armijo Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:15:22 +0000 http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/08/01/virtualization-and-the-singularity/#comment-1216 Working in this field, as co-founder of 3tera, I’m often asked by people what will be done with the thousands of machines our grids connect. Most people really have little idea how many computers are already working to provide what we consider mundane today. Google runs around 1 million machines today. Facebook, a few thousand. Myspace, several thousand. And the list goes on.

Experiments are already under way in extending human perception. I’ve read of sensor belts to let you know which way is North, like homing pigeons. Another lab has a device that presents a picture from a camera onto the subjects back, allowing the blind to “see” or perhaps giving firemen infra-red vision. I’ve also seen videos of implants for quadrapolegics that allow them to control a mouse and keyboard. All these things are being done today in the lab, but as commercial uses are found for them the computing power required to make them useful and to tie them into web will be immense.

However, I believe it will be so immense that merely trying to scale our data centers today with grid technology won’t be enough. Data centers today are a throw back to the past, designed for a time when computers required constant human attention to run. Before we realize the world RK describes our notion of how to run software and the data centers we build to power that software must evolve as well.

]]> By: Joe Foran http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/virtualization-and-the-singularity/#comment-1215 Joe Foran Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:02:35 +0000 http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/08/01/virtualization-and-the-singularity/#comment-1215 The dead link in the fourth paragraph should be to the following URL: http://legion.virginia.edu/presentations/UMBC-Apr2001/.

My bad… sorry.

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