Comments on: Finally: The Roadmap To Profits For Nutanix

By: Timothy Prickett Morgan

Timothy Prickett Morgan — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 12:44:13 +0000

In reply to rinshaz. The vast majority of small businesses make $250,000 or less and have one or two employees.

By: rinshaz

rinshaz — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:05:17 +0000

There are 32.5 million small businesses in the US ,Small businesses account for 64% of new jobs annually and every year, they create 1.5 million jobs in the US ,99.9% of businesses in the US are small businesses (businesses with fewer than 250 employees)

By: Slim Jim

Slim Jim — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 05:57:22 +0000

Ecosystems are most robust when designed to operate under a paradigm where the only constant is change, supported by a broadly heterogeneous diversity of wide-ranging choices. The winning choice at one time eventually loses-out to another pairing, which itself gives way to a third, and so forth, until the first choice (possibly evolved over time) might win-out again, all in a rather cyclic and evolutive way, that never stops, except maybe to expire into possibly unfortunate, or undesirable, extinction.

HCI needs to adapt similarly, focusing on whichever tech pairing is most favored at a given time, and shifting that focus selectively to emerging alternatives as they start to overtake the previous champ. That is quite a challenge, possibly best addressed with a flexible approach and tooling.

Focusing on the dynamic composition of heterogeneous disaggregated systems (CHDS), from the get go, would seem like a smart way to prepare for the eventual (cyclic) shifts in computational paradigms. But as pointed out by ORNL (cf. TNP’s 09/27/23 piece on “Clouded Judgements”), this is a huge challenge today, and likely in the proximal future as well. System heterogeneity results from individual designers and operators seeking to develop an exceptional advantage over the competition (as in mating rituals), and when every system so-becomes an exception (by ecological necessity), there is little hope for a compositional framework that can combine all such exceptions into an eventual highly performant whole (eg. ZettaCthulhu, in the age of Exaflopping).

Luckily, this situation is completely unacceptable. Which is where the ecology of competitive innovation naturally comes to the rescue. It is just such that we can expect the Yin/Yang duality of HCI/CHDS to keep evolving into increasingly better hyper-converged and heterogeneous-disaggregated systems, cyclically winning-out over each other, for the entirety of the forseeable future, keeping change as the only constant, while choice and performance continually improve!

As recently pointed out by Chinese minister for national security Chen Yixin (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/28/chen_yixin_china_digital_threats/), the “original innovation capability” needs to be strong (and remain so) for this type of ecology to succeed.

By: HuMo

HuMo — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:26:47 +0000

As the first link of the story (2011) fastly establishes, and as the remainder of the article further slowly develops, it’s just a real challenge to build a large family (of customers) while “practicing safe SOCS”! The ratio of hard- to soft- parts often plays an outsize role in getting the golden goose to lay its top-shelf fertilized eggs, in line with the rule of 40. A purely software play is a real challenge there, but if anyone can do it, it might just be a computational outfit that manages to combine the alluring sweetness of Nutella, with the concentrated uplift of Nugenix … hmmm, I don’t know … Nutelnix, for example! 8^d