Monday, June 6, 2011

Are the IT department's days numbered? - [En] Orange Business Live

It's the sort of question a proponent of cloud computing would ask, but Orange staffers speculate about whether enterprises will abandon their internal data centers completely for cloud alternatives in 10 years.

"It is looking increasingly likely that some organizations won't run any internal systems at all in their own enterprise data centers, but will instead source everything from the cloud," says
Anthony Plewes, of Orange Business Services.

Facebook is a case in point. The company was leasing its data centre services from third parties for years, until it decided to build its own.

It unveiled its Oregon-based facility in April 2011, and released the hardware specifications under an initiative called the "Open Compute Project," which Facebook hopes will create a standardized data center model.

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