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Re: They have doubled the number of servers and have replaced the virtual database with a high-capacity physical one

POWER can do the "geographically widely distributed collection of physical machines tied together as one machine", the better question is why?

Your trying to compare pomegranate seeds with real machines.

Ever heard of a system called Watson?

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 11/6/2013 4:33 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
Is there such a thing as a virtual server, with virtual memory, running
on a geographically widely distributed collection of physical machines
tied together as one virtual server? Are we talking about something
like Google Docs on steroids? Is this another name for "the Cloud"?

I am asking these questions because I am sensing that this solution is
not available to us on the midrange platform? lol If so, apparently
that is a good thing?

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