Welcome to 1999 - The network is the datacentre.....

Friday, January 11. 2008

Welcome to 1999 - The network is the datacentre.....

Nick Carr has noted something revolutionary - for 1998:

...a company like Sun can consolidate its own IT infrastructure dramatically but at some point that effort will begin producing diminishing returns. To achieve even greater efficiency will require a higher level of consolidation - across companies rather than within them - and that can only happen through a shift to shared, web-based infrastructure. The network, to spin the old Sun slogan, becomes the data center.

Now it may be that Nick is pimping his book for all its worth, or it may be that the IT industry has just worked this out, but the Telcos had worked this out by 1999. I know, it was the prime argument in my board paper before we went out to acquire a web hosting company....in 1999.

Its Santayana time again....................

Posted by Alan Patrick in Web Services / Cloud Computing at 22:36 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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