Explore the challenges and opportunities of the transformational datacenter with Carpathia Hostings’
Jon Greaves, CTO and author of e-Book,
“Datacenter of the Future”

In the 60s and 70s, it was commonplace for companies to use computer resources from a Service Bureau – like IBM, Tymshare and GE - whereby it sold time or computing services on a single mainframe.  Commonly known as “timesharing”, this eventually gave way to client-server computing as users looked for richer graphical interfaces and realized the economics of moving to much smaller servers, costing significantly less than mainframes.

That was then.  Fast forward to today’s datacenter.

With the advances of virtualization technology now providing the equivalent of time-sharing not only for computing resources, but for storage and networking, we see the re-emergence of the Service Bureau model as Software as a Service, or SaaS – publishing applications in much the same way as the original Service Bureau.

Read more about the Datacenter of the Future, an e-Book, authored by Carpathia
Hosting’s Chief Technology Officer, Jon Greaves.

• Chapter 1:  Security and Privacy (published in January)
• Chapter 2:  Monitoring and Management (published in January)
• Chapter 3:  Datacenter Optimization Services (published in February)