I think that where ARM could have a lot to offer is in distributing storage and compute more evenly... for distributed bigtable or cassandra-like storage, it could make a lot of sense to pair 16-32gb of fast ssd storage to a 4-8 core ARM node... With the amount of I/O bound data per compute node reduced, and lower cost per node, this could yeild much better results than the big boxes for distributed databases.
For many other chores, I'm not sure if it makes as much sense... but that's juse my $.02 on the issue. I still think it's a pretty cool option, but not sure how well it works for a lot of different areas.
For many other chores, I'm not sure if it makes as much sense... but that's juse my $.02 on the issue. I still think it's a pretty cool option, but not sure how well it works for a lot of different areas.