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Cloud Computing: Its Evolution Depends on Economics

Thanks Mario:

Cisco's Doug Gourlay recently shared data with me about the state of legacy data center infrastructure and the massive opportunity for leaps in economy, efficiency, energy savings etc. In addition to the obvious motive to invest in new infrastructure to address the demands of endpoint growth and network complexity and the emergence of VMotion he made a great case for bringing our installed IT infrastructure up-todate. That of course means automation and additional capacity.

CIOs will need to take a step back and a fresh look at how their IT is deployed and the extent of recurring costs (from electricity to labor and process delay) in addition to addressing the network effects of VMotion and cloud. Thanks for the comment.

Greg

Cloud Computing: Its Evolution Depends on Economics

Stephen:

Good point. Clearly there was huge growth in endpoints before the netbook. I just think that:1) the netbook will put disproportionately more strain on the network; 2) its yet another mobile device; and 3) it could eventually outsell PCs with hard drives.

Thanks,
Greg

Cloud Computing: Its Evolution Depends on Economics

Stephen:

Thanks for your comments and the points you raised about infrastructure and scale. Its interesting that more PC demands seem to be related to browsers versus hard drive-installed software these days. With netbook sales taking off one has to wonder if we'll see another even larger explosion in endpoints. Cisco has predicted about 10 billion I recall by 2010... and I wonder if they took netbooks into account.

Thanks,
Greg

Cloud Computing: Its Evolution Depends on Economics

Teutonic:

Thanks for asking. Infoblox solutions automate the core network services that TCP/IP networks utilize, thus making networks more resilient and more able to keep up with growth and an increased velocity of change. Virtualization increases the ease of change and cloud implies changes/movment over larger areas. I think it will be challenging, risky and costly for enterprises to deploy new automation initiatives (virtualization, RFID/supply chain, cloud) without automating core network services. Ultimately I see collaborations between Infoblox and others leading to other breakthroughs (including IF-MAP).

I joined Infoblox as Blue Lane was in the acquisition process. I was attracted by their sales success and the strategic role I perceived them playing in dynamic infrastructure. In a way, I saw once boring technology becoming strategic to most of the significant enterprise IT initiatives in an up or down economy.

Thx
Greg

Cloud Computing: Its Evolution Depends on Economics

Thanks Jeff. I think that core network service automation would certainly be on a shortlist... automating some of the kludge and reducing the expense of the network.

Greg