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Cloud services probably upended this.

If my server farm is idle any significant amount, I'm going to take those servers offline. If I need capacity, I'll spin up some cloud instances in the short term, and I'll bring my own servers online until I'm at an appropriate idle/busy metric.

I suspect that the days of 99% idle servers are long gone. I suspect that utilization is probably above 70%.




The interesting market is the "personal" server, which is idle 99% of the time but cannot be turned off as the owner only has 1 to start with.


That's not an interesting market because it is tiny and will get relatively smaller going forward.

There are 2, maybe 3 interesting markets that will come to dominate computing even more than they already do in the next few years:

Cloud, Mobile and IoT (maybe)

Desktops, personal servers and any other non-cloud server workloads will be a rounding error.




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