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May 25, 2012

Andrew Baker and 1 other person answered this question

Will custom-built application delivery controllers in massive data centers replace off-the-shelf hardware?

Cost is a definite disadvantage of customized solutions.
Other issues include complexity and difficulty to support.
There are only a few organizations that can benefit from that strategy of customization, so we will continue to see purpose-built solutions that support the larger base of organizations ... more

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March 30, 2012

Gary Pokorn and 9 other people answered this question

Virtualization vs. cloud computing- what's the difference?

Thanks for starting this discussion. There are lots of definitions and perspectives on the technology shift in the marketplace I think. (Great for sales professionals, true? e.g. "Y2K".) From my perspective "Cloud Computing" is a bit "cloudy". I believe this is primarily due to "legacy" ... more

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Feb. 7, 2012

JP Morgenthal and 1 other person answered this question

What needs to be done for companies to move towards an ITaaS model?

As Robert indicated, ITaaS requires a focus on process and an understanding of the metrics associated with delivering IT support today. As a support organization, IT is an overhead expense, usually underfunded, focused on "keeping the lights on" and not incentivized to ensure a high-quality ... more

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Dec. 31, 2011

greg schulz and 1 other person answered this question

What are some examples of sustainable data centers?

That depends as reducing carbon footprint is often mistaken as the primary objective for sustainability thus missing more opportunities.
For some environments, reducing the CO2 footprint can be an objective of requirement.
However, for other environments the near term objective can and should be to ... more

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Dec. 30, 2011

Robert Keahey answered this question

Do you expect companies to be more or less secretive about their data centers in the future?

What once was a competitive advantage is now a commodity - the data center. There are so many "templates" from which to work that there's not a lot of secrecy to be protected. Through initiatives like OCP and the Open Data Center Alliance everybody has ... more

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Nov. 7, 2011

Dave Roberts and 3 other people answered this question

How successful do you think HP's recently announced ARM-based "Moonshot" servers will be?

And the problem is that without developer tools capable of doing what people want, that "You go first" mentality is even more pronounced. Put another way, if my standard development environment is Windows folks writing in .Net using Visual Studio, Moonshot is basically a paperweight ... more

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