http://www.dbtablog.com/2008/09/03/death-of-the-data-center-not-so-fast/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:30:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.dbtablog.com/2008/09/03/death-of-the-data-center-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-31 JD Wilson Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:54:16 +0000 http://www.dbta.com/blogs/mckendrick/?p=31#comment-31 Joe, this is exactly the balanced treatment we need for cloud computing as in when you state that it "has clearly become an important option". The end of an "age" is not marked when the last straggler falls into the tarpit but rather by the emergence of a "new order". It seems logical that, moving forward, only a finite number of data centers will be built for the exclusive internal use of a single organization; no matter how large. Data centers will be built, but for a different purpose, and that is revenue generation as a shared asset among multiple entities. Who can say which will be the very last dedicated data center to be built by some multi-national firm or a government. It is certainly possible this has already happened. Joe, this is exactly the balanced treatment we need for cloud computing as in when you state that it “has clearly become an important option”. The end of an “age” is not marked when the last straggler falls into the tarpit but rather by the emergence of a “new order”. It seems logical that, moving forward, only a finite number of data centers will be built for the exclusive internal use of a single organization; no matter how large. Data centers will be built, but for a different purpose, and that is revenue generation as a shared asset among multiple entities. Who can say which will be the very last dedicated data center to be built by some multi-national firm or a government. It is certainly possible this has already happened.

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