Centralisation has changed IT for users everywhere. This came from computer scientists, John McCarthy’s early theory back in 1960s. He believed that computation would eventually be dynamically organised as a public utility. Virtual hosting takes this concept and administrates the pooling and sharing of servers, centralising the main source of energy output though standby power is still useful where electricity is needed.
Virtual hosting as It is Today
Cloud computing is starting to revolutionise the way that businesses, individuals and public organisations use IT – and because IT is everywhere, virtual hosting really does apply to everybody. But as yet, the concept is still pretty fresh, and the uptake on virtualised services is not exactly ‘viral’. This could be a slow but steady revolution, but virtual hosting does have the potential to replace conventional IT setups altogether. Or does it?
Virtual Hosting – Where Will the Idea Go?
As revolutionary as cloud hosting is, some could have taken the idea a little too far, according to James Urquhart, writer for CNET.
“Some have taken electricity as an analogy to cloud adoption to an extreme, and declared that there will be a massive and sudden shift from corporate data centers to entirely external cloud computing environments - public cloud utilities, if you will. They are wrong, and the reason why they are wrong can be captured in a single simple statement: Data is not electricity,” wrote James Urquhart, August 2009
The Future of Virtual Hosting
Although virtual hosting is offering everyone a cost-effective, energy efficient and more productive solution for applying information technology, there are limits – and those who dream that we will all be sharing public servers could be very wrong. Nobody knows what the future holds, and perhaps some technological genius will make it possible to consume the cloud from external virtual hosting with verifiable security, control, service levels and compliance. (These are the views of James Urquhart – for more information, visit CNET)
Whatever the case may be, shouldn’t we have open minds about the future of virtual hosting? Just twenty years ago, we didn’t know what the World Wide Web was. And similarly, we all survived without Google – who would have dreamed it up? Other than Larry Page and Sergey Brin, of course!
Today, virtual hosting can change the way that you consume computing – whether you need platforms and applications for personal or business use, it can save you money and valuable time. For now, this is working for all of us. We’ll cross the more complicated bridge when we get to it – and we’ll leave it to the tech geeks to build that bridge.
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