Nick Carr has an interesting analysis about the trend among large enterprise vendors to consolidate their own data centres. Why should you care? Referring to Sun Microsystems which plans to shrink its data centres to zero by 2015, he notes:
Cinque [data centre architect] provides few details – he says he’ll flesh out the plans in future blog posts – but it’s clear that he anticipates that the software-as-a-service model, and related virtualization technologies, will advance by 2015 to the point where all corporate software, including custom programs, will be able to run on large grids operated by utility suppliers.
The obvious driver is to reduce cost. Note how saas fits into the picture. Seven years is at once an age yet very little time in this business. It’s only two years ago I started to talk seriously about the potential for saas in the SMB space. Today I am awash with stories about how more and more people looking at this model.
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