Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon
This is another signal of an interesting development on the hardware front. What used to be decoupled, with some companies offering hardware, and different companies buying hardware, is now coupled and hidden within these mega-companies (Google, Amazon, FB).<p>Google is big enough to develop a trusted hardware solution for internal use only, it has no financial need to sell it. Worse, due to competitiveness in the cloud segment, it is dis-incentivized from selling the solution.<p>Amazon Glacier is another one. It's an interesting long-term storage solution, whose hardware implementation is unavailable to the market, since AMZN can better explore it as a service under AWS.<p>We are heading onto a more closed ecosystem than we are used to up until here. The cloud, which gave us the immense positive benefit of moving all capex to opex, is birthing this immense negative side effect of closing off hardware implementations in favour of exploring the added value in the form of services.