OStatic

By Raj Bala

Trends in data storage and server computing are changing rapidly, and there are some unexpected shakeups to come, with open source implications. Hardware continues to get cheaper. Bandwidth isn?t quite free yet, but it?s hardly expensive. High-quality open source software now abounds in enterprise data centers, but grid computing solutions remain half-baked and hardly commoditized.

These trends are all behind why I think Yahoo! and EMC are set for a future technology collision, given their respective philosophies--and open source is too.