Sustainable computing means any application, even the largest on the planet, can be run, without a data center – without using up gigawatts of electricity – implemented in a quarter at a cost so low it reduces IT spend 50%.
Data centers are not needed for building software nor for running it.
Data centers are almost exclusively built to process I/O, or input/output, which definitely does need a data center.
Optimize I/O – you don’t need a data center. Period. Fractal has the sites to prove it.
For 40 years the computer industry ignored chip design advancements.
Industry behemoths like Oracle, SAP and others bet Moore’s Law would last forever – that chips would continue to get so small it would make up for ignoring I/O burdens.
Others had a different point of view – in particular the Intelligence Community for the U.S. Government.
The Intel Community needed its applications to survive a nuclear war – thus a big fat target like a data center was too high a risk.
They wisely chose to build a fully distributed system – we call it a MESH here from time to time – with no central point of control.
That means if one of the nodes goes down – we call those Fractals – the rest continue to operate and repair or reissue that Fractal.
To make this work our team had to make applications small.
Really small – means they are super fast, they can be placed right next to where the data might reside – which if you are into edge computing is a pretty big thing.
Since Fractals are so fast, operating from 1,000 to up to a million times faster than any current technology, they eliminate the need for a data center.
If you run 1 thousand times faster, you only need 1/1000th the hardware, 1/1000th the power, thus no data center.
Fractal has a growing list of corporate customers proving this every day – and we build demonstration projects we feature on some of our micro sites.
If you find your local government is just dying to rip up thousands of acres of beautiful farmland to bring in data centers, you may want to clue them in that technology has made data centers obsolete.
It’s not us – it I/O optimization.
It’s not us, it’s fully distributed computing.
Fractal is one of the first to demonstrate this disruptive technology but others will follow.
When a technology proves – with 100% certainty that it eliminates the need for data centers – while reducing IT costs 50%, while eliminating the need for massive electricity – well, you can pretty much bet that those data centers, in about 5 years will be storage facilities.
Unfortunately, your farmland will be forever destroyed.
