The University of California at San Diego has adopted a cloud-first strategy that involves retiring three mainframes, shifting as many computing workloads as possible to the cloud and abandoning on-premises software in favor of software-as-a-service wherever possible.
“I long ago realized that the CIO should be more of a supply chain leader than someone who keeps track of hardware specs,” said Vince Kellen, UCSD’s chief information officer. “For most of our business problems, hardware doesn’t matter.”
A growing number of information technology managers feels the same way. For more than 60 years, both the potential and limitations of computing have been defined by processors, memory, storage and other components fashioned from metal and silicon. The central role of the what jobs can you get with a computer science degree has long been to protect and optimize those precious assets, using armies of systems administrators and people with screwdrivers who keep the data center lights on.
About 20 years ago, virtualization began the process of abstracting away the nuts and bolts of hardware, making infrastructure a single amorphous entity managed by software. Cloud computing has furthered the process over the last decade, making hardware an abstract resource that, for customers, is increasingly someone else’s problem to manage.
But in a surprising twist, the cloud is actually unleashing a flood of new hardware innovation — starting with the foundational silicon chip on which all computers and the cloud itself are built.
“This is really a golden era of semiconductors,” Victor Peng, president and chief executive at programmable logic circuit and software veteran Xilinx Inc., said at a recent event called “The Renaissance of Silicon” presented by the Silicon Valley thought leadership forum Churchill Club. Added Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of chipmaker Micron Technology Inc., “There has never been a more exciting time in the past 40 years.”
“I long ago realized that the CIO should be more of a supply chain leader than someone who keeps track of hardware specs,” said Vince Kellen, UCSD’s chief information officer. “For most of our business problems, hardware doesn’t matter.”
A growing number of information technology managers feels the same way. For more than 60 years, both the potential and limitations of computing have been defined by processors, memory, storage and other components fashioned from metal and silicon. The central role of the what jobs can you get with a computer science degree has long been to protect and optimize those precious assets, using armies of systems administrators and people with screwdrivers who keep the data center lights on.
About 20 years ago, virtualization began the process of abstracting away the nuts and bolts of hardware, making infrastructure a single amorphous entity managed by software. Cloud computing has furthered the process over the last decade, making hardware an abstract resource that, for customers, is increasingly someone else’s problem to manage.
But in a surprising twist, the cloud is actually unleashing a flood of new hardware innovation — starting with the foundational silicon chip on which all computers and the cloud itself are built.
“This is really a golden era of semiconductors,” Victor Peng, president and chief executive at programmable logic circuit and software veteran Xilinx Inc., said at a recent event called “The Renaissance of Silicon” presented by the Silicon Valley thought leadership forum Churchill Club. Added Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of chipmaker Micron Technology Inc., “There has never been a more exciting time in the past 40 years.”
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