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Founder Mark Andreessen of OPSWARE (previously Loudcloud) discusses the company's transition from services company to software vendor and OPSWARE's entry to the utility computing market. Andreessen says today's data centers, which are disorganized, hard to control, and mostly un-automated, can benefit from utility computing, but that autonomic computer is nonsense, mumbo jumbo hype pushed primarily by IBM. However, says Andreessen, such abilities will not have the artificial intelligence sufficient to allow them to take care of themselves for at least 30 or possibly 100 years. Users implementing utility computing, which is fully automated (meaning that as much manual labor as possible is automated), have to take a pragmatic approach. For example, remedial work should not put off. With utility computing the time required to fight fires is reduced. Users currently are deploying many Linux, Microsoft, Intel, and AMD servers, as well as Java and .Net. Many Web sites are being created, and many patches are being installed. Andreessen also advises companies to measure success and failure for utility computing initiative in terms of hard dollars, such as ratio of administrator to machines.
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