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If you look at it from the perspective of CPU cores it lines up more:

  ~2002: move everything off to its own dual-cpu server
  ~2007: move everything to its own dual core vm on an 8-core server
  ~2012: put everything on each 16/32 core box but manage its resources via cgroups (or just overprovisioning)



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