“Storage” is likely to be used in the resource sense here. They’re listed together because they’re each important capability groups in Windows Server. If you want to manage a server, then you need to understand each of those capabilities, even if some are processes and others are resources. They all need management.
Compute is pronounced com-PUTE (a certain coworker notwithstanding).
It probably came from virtualization tech. When you start virtualizing servers, you need access to storage, networking and cpu resources. Instead of cpu resources, compute is what I always hear.
I never heard it really used before virtualizing came out strong. These days I hear it all the time.
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It’s a cloud/virtualization thing. Doesn’t help that Amazon pioneered the mass-scale industry with their Elastic Compute Cloud.
Obviously writed by a engineer.
Well this answer does compute.
As noted above it is an older term in the noun form, but as there was a tight coupling of storage and compute for most of the PC’s history it was a fairly obscure for the general public.
http://www.websters1913.com/words/Compute
Way back when I was a BSc Comput[e | ing] undergrad (disclosure: in the UK), although the term ‘compute’ wasn’t prevalent, it did crop up in lectures concerning things like algorithms used by various OSs to determine which process should be up next in a multi-process environment. The scheduler had to know whether a certain (section of a) process was “io-bound” or “compute-bound”, indicating that the thing stopping faster/more execution of that process was that it was either performing a lot of slow i/o or was a voracious number-cruncher. This would be in the early 80’s (gulp).
My £0.02p
It seems to me that “compute services” is different than in the OP. “Compute services” means services for computing - here they took a verb and made it into an adjective, which is standard English. But the OP is talking about nouning a verb, which is not standard, at least until it catches on and becomes a noun in its own right.
And I had never heard that usage before.
“Compute” is very common in high-performace computing (HPC - clusters). You hear things like:
It is also used that way in the context of 3D and GPU programming. It is used when you are using a GPU (the chip that is usually used to draw 3D stuff) to do general-purpose computation that has nothing to do with drawing stuff. e.g. compute shaders.
Nice ring to that.
If I’m ever caught in adultery I’ll know how to describe my lovin’.
There’s also the product line called Intel Compute Stick.
You might think that with “Compute” in the name these would be pretty heavy-duty devices.
You’d be wrong.
I think it’s more like “You’ll be amazed that these can compute anything at all.”
Thanks for the responses. The sense I’m getting is that ‘compute’ essentially refers to computation thought of as a sort of amorphous resource, which can be reallocated/distributed essentially in a continuous manner. That’s a bit of a different usage than the historical one pointed out above (and also, as has been pointed out by some, it differs from the sense used in the OP), but well, I guess language evolves. I still don’t like it on a purely aesthetic basis, though.
Yes, it’s being used as a jargon synonym for “computing power”. Why they use “compute” instead of “computing power” is that it’s two syllables vs five.