Sun Plans to Have No In-House Data Centers by 2015

1sockchuck writes "Sun Microsystems wants to cut its IT department's data center footprint in half within five years, and then eliminate in-house data centers completely shortly afterward. 'Our goal is to reduce our entire data center presence by 2015,' writes Sun data center architect Brian Cinque, who says Sun hopes to shift its in-house IT to a software-as-a-service model. Sun will use virtualization and consolidation to reduce its data center space and energy usage by 50 percent by 2013, with a goal of moving it all online two years later. Sun's plan reflects the shift to utility computing discussed in Nicholas Carr's new book, which we debated earlier this week."

Eat your own dog food.

[Valdrax]

Man, if *Sun* can't afford to maintain a Solaris data center, then who can?

Eliminate data centers?

[Futurepower(R)]

Another initiative from Sun: We would soon all have Net PCs [wikipedia.org].

Reduction of in-house reliance nothing new

[RealGrouchy]

This is nothing new. Political parties have stored their data in out-houses for ages.

- RG>

No machines

[SEWilco]

Imagine no Beowulf cluster of these.

Re:Sun does...

[__aaclcg7560]

The Sun provides heat and light for the Earth. If the Sun cuts back by 50%, the Earth becomes cooler and darker. Of course, that will be great news for the polar bears. :P

Re:Eat your own dog food.

[Crafack]

No. It's virtual servers all the way down.

What is replacing the in-house data centers

[Stuntmonkey]

...is "out-house" data centers. Powered entirely by human waste. Very green, very modern, it's recycling for the new millennium.