Cloud Insight

Massive Data Centers, at the center of the clouds

Blue Cloud from IBM, Microsoft rumored to make heavy investment data centers, EMC buys Pi to strengthen its data center operations, BMC answers that by acquiring Bladelogic, HP has opsware and finally has ability to invest in software and services, Dell has a built to order data center business, and Robert X. Cringely wrote an article in 2005 why Google will be way ahead in this game since they have been coached by Uncle Walton.

So, this cloud is really massive data centers spread across the globe with lots and lots of servers, both real and virtual serving hardware and software services for customers. (Of course, these data centers better be green and energy efficient.). So the winners in this game will be the companies that can run a data center most efficiently. Google, Amazon, Yahoo and other large portals base operations have had head start.

But what about the internal IT teams at large corporations? In the last few years, many of these have outsourced their data center operations to companies such as Verizon or Sungard, so I am not sure that would more of difference to them.

In any case, this is interesting times for all.

As a side note, if you are in IT professional in data center operations, system administration, virtualization savvy, good times ahead for you.Be sure to take advantage of that