I was reading through David Linthicum’s posting on the death of the data center, and have to mostly agree with him. Read the article here.
While companies are showing a significant move to virtualization within the data center and a clear shift to adding resources in the Cloud rather than an in-house data center, the short term effect will likely be to increase the number of data centers – Amazon being a good example of this.
However, I do believe that the ownership and location of the new data centers represents a dramatic shift. It will be service providers such as Amazon and IBM who will be adding the most capacity in the next few years, and they will be placing these in areas with maximum international bandwidth.
Longer term we may see a consolidation of in-house data centers as companies reconfigure their data center strategies to include external service providers.
The winners form this configuration are clearly those Cloud service providers who offer the best value proposition (particularly for private clouds) and –as always – the companies providing the tools to make the changes; VMWare being a leading example.
What are your thoughts on the future of the data center?
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