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:Come on! (Score:5, Informative)
Editors? You haven't been on slashdot very long. They have NEVER had editors.
Re:Lots of luck, chuck. (Score:5, Informative)
remember how everyone was going to lose their IT jobs to Indian outsourcing?
Half of them did.
How'd that turn out?
Depends on your perspective.
Re:An explicit return to the failed timesharing mo (Score:5, Informative)
It is the same old stuff in new wrappers. But therein is a statement:
1) In house development and app hosting weren't working. Why? Costs? Pains? Staffing? Budget
2) It's just about as secure to do things internally as on external hosting because if you do the job right, there's truly no secure boundary and people learned that.
3) Vertical market software is getting really good, and SaaS can even be satisfactory for some-- and vastly less than doing it in-house.
4) Less Capex. No huge front-end expense to setup shop/branches. Rent everything.... every IT cost is OpEx rather than CapEx.
5) Stuff moves to quickly to keep up, perhaps. Tough even for us old sages.