Daily techtalk: Circulation - From Hardware defined to Software defined

In the IT Technology we can see continuous circulation. Today the trends show that, everything is moving from specialized hardware equipments to a software defined architecture. From one viewpoint, this is a great advantage, because we can use general components for every purpose, but in this happiness we need to see the dark side.

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With the software defined components the overall TCO decrease, but on the other side, we latency of the components. This initiative is similar to the virtualization, but in this case, we virtualizing functionality with the software layer. This solution will gain usage in different areas, until the layer components will not form a standardized form. With the standardization, soon every vendor will realize that, we can put the standardized functionality to silicon. With a large amount of production, this will again break down the prices. I would expect a large array of storage elements which form a self organized cluster, which optimize itself with some Artificial Intelligence. This intelligence able to self heal itself, able to do deduplication, and compression, with intelligent data scanning.

Depending on the usage footprints, it will organize itself to do its best. For this it can use Extracted FeatureSet from usage samples, and Deep Learning help to predict optimal form.

I would expect more Object related storage than Block storage. This kind of Breed can serve the previously mentioned 21th Century Mainframe also.

The cells itself can use traditional disks, SSD chips, NVMe, and persistent memory. With a specialized intelligent ASIC logic, we can decrease the latency of the product, which will affect the overall response time of the system which will consume this solution.

If we think about the technology companies how creating new systems it can be mapped the same.

For this it is a good example the HP Machine Project, where they want to create a new kind computing architecture.

For those who interested, there can be found more information in the following article:
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/01/09/hpe-powers-machine-architecture/

Really interesting how the architecture develops
First they implement in software, and plastic models

Then they implement on FPGA hardware

Finally they start to replace the parts to final hardware.

This is what I currently see on the whole IT Industry, and I think this is really important, because of the energy consumption.

We can take an example the Bitcoin blockchain network, compared to VISA network

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But I think this is a really important chart. You can tell after only this information Bitcoin is inefficient solution, but we miss one really important factor:

** TIME **

This is what I learned when I mined Bitcoin with a 700 GHash mining ASIC hardware. I thought it is not efficient because Bitcoin was only 120$ that time. Now with the knowledge of the future I can tell it was more profitable after the time I sold my hardware. Today it is still around 100 times more expensive. And this is what I expect. Hardware will evolve and evolve, so in the future transaction energy usage will more less.

And this is the key moment why I tell VISA will less and less efficient. Why ? Because it has the same energy efficiency like ten years ago, which not true for the Cryptos.

I hope you enjoyed my article, and tuned for the next post!