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Read a great opinion piece last week in the Wall Street Journal that talks about how we “stand on the cusp of three grand technological transformations with the potential to rival that of the past century.”  If you haven’t read Mark Mills and Julio Ottino: The Coming Tech-led Boom – WSJ.com it compares the potential [...] Read Full Story

For a fresh perspective on data center obsolescence check out The Coming Colocation Crunch by Nemertes Principal Analyst Ted Ritter writing for Data Center Knowledge this week (Jan 18, 2012): “Nemertes Research predicts a shortage of colocation space in the U.S. beginning this year, growing to a $1.9 billion facilities gap by 2015.” Colocation comes [...] Read Full Story

In the same way that the rise of the Internet led to the enterprise web (web-enabled enterprise applications) the public and private cloud is driving IT to new modes of operation, most of which demand more agility, more capacity and an even keener  focus on operating and capital expenses.  This profound tension -between a substantial [...] Read Full Story

Earlier this month I attended the Gartner Data Center Summit, and sat in on several presentations, including David Cappuccio’s intro keynote on data center trends and Neal MacDonald’s session on virtualization security.  I apologize in advance for the breadth of my rambling and speculation, but I think the IT revolution playing itself out will mark [...] Read Full Story

For months I’ve been preoccupied with Lew’s Law, or the theory that IT expenses over time will track to the cost of electricity (versus hardware, peoplepower, etc.) authored by Cisco Cloud CTO Lew Tucker and shared in early 2010 with the then-billowing Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group. After watching an SAP webcast shared by Reese Jones [...] Read Full Story

Two key industries industries face massive disruption in the coming years as IT becomes ever more strategic to enterprise operating advantage, and IT infrastructure scales to new levels of complexity and dynamism.  The future of IT will likely be created by those who accelerate the pace of automation and who build more energy-efficient, scalable data [...] Read Full Story

The cloud hysteria and the “end of PC” debate is today’s equivalent to the dancing shadows on the walls of Plato’s famous cave (see Plato’s cave allegory);  both topics are keeping companies and their customers distracted while the technology industry is entering an era of accelerating change more like Kurzweil’s Singularity than Moore’s law. The mainframe is [...] Read Full Story

While the computing revolution shifts from PC to server-centricity, market caps are shifting from hardware-centric to software and services-centric enterprises.  This places the data center at front and center for the foreseeable future, and promises a much-needed disruption at the core of how data centers are designed, built and managed. Note the theme from the [...] Read Full Story

I never thought I would hear Steve Jobs hail the post-PC era, much less IBM PC legend Mark Dean .  They must be right, because HP just announced its exit from the PC business.  But then Microsoft has said that the PC isn’t even middle-aged. This is as close as it gets to a meaningless [...] Read Full Story

It has been refreshing to see more coverage in the business and tech press related to the wholesale data center category, or what Michael Vizard has recognized as data center warehouses.  The concept of a company that builds and leases data center space in large quantities is unknown to many CIOs and CFOs, but I [...] Read Full Story