The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers 180
dcblogs writes "Virtualization, cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. Of the new data center space being built in the U.S., service providers accounted for about 13% of it last year, but by 2017 they will be responsible for more than 30% of this new space, says IDC. 'We are definitely seeing a trend away from in-house data centers toward external data centers, external provisioning,' said Gartner analyst Jon Hardcastle. Among those planning for a transition is the University of Kentucky's CIO, who wants to reduce his data center footprint by half to two thirds. He expects in three to five years service provider pricing models 'will be very attractive to us and allow us to take most of our computing off of our data center.' IT managers says a big reason for the shift is IT pros don't want to work in data centers at small-to-mid size firms that can't offer them a career path. Hank Seader, managing principal of the Uptime Institute, said that it takes a 'certain set of legacy skills, a certain commitment to the less than glorious career fields to make data centers work, and it's hard to find people to do it.'"
Re:An explicit return to the failed timesharing mo (Score:5, Funny)
"All of this has happened before and will happen again... every five years".
You have to admire the creativity of giving the exact same concept a different name every time.
Re:It all boils down to (Score:3, Funny)
Every time somebody brings this up, just sprinkle peanuts around your demarc. The eventual squirrel strike will remind them why it is nice to have your data within your local network.
Do the power also, reminding people why they can't use the backup generator room as storage space, as well as providing crispy critters for lunch.
Re:Come on! (Score:4, Funny)
Twilight (tm) is now a registered Trademark of the owners of the movie and book series. From now on the rest of us have to use Twighlight
Re:An explicit return to the failed timesharing mo (Score:5, Funny)
That's "Every time I hear someone gushing over [whatever P2P is called now] , it's history repeating itself." Freaking Slashcode will be exactly the same in 20 years, that's for sure.