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Summary
For Server Month, Hands-On IT host Landon Miles traces how servers evolved from room-sized mainframes to AI-accelerated cloud infrastructure, and the people who drove each shift. A recurring tension runs through it, between closed, centralized control and open collaboration: IBM's $5 billion System/360 gamble and "no one ever got fired for buying IBM," DEC's affordable minicomputers, the birth of Unix at Bell Labs, and Linus Torvalds releasing Linux in 1991 as a hobby kernel. The arc continues through VMware's hypervisor, Amazon's 2006 launch of S3 and EC2, Docker and Kubernetes, and the 2020s rush toward GPUs and custom silicon. The throughline he lands on is Sun's old slogan, "the network is the computer," which open source and the cloud turned into reality.
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