2010: WILL A NEW DECADE BRING NEW DATA CENTRE PARADIGMS?

In Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series, the appearance of a mysterious monolith in prehistoric times is responsible for awakening intelligence in humankind. By three million years later, human ingenuity has sprouted the ability to awaken intelligence in silicon, as evidenced by ‘Hal’ – sci-fi’s most notorious artificially intelligent computer. In Clarke’s world, the year 2010 finds humans not only dealing with the aftermath of artificial intelligence gone awry, but still struggling to understand the nature of human ingenuity and intelligence. As 2010 opens in our world, it’s no surprise that intelligence and ingenuity are key themes that run through four major trends we’ll see in the enterprise data centre for 2010 and the decade beyond:

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So far there has been much hype around cloud computing and as the market continues to turn we will see the cloud continue to draw much attention and momentum. But 2010 is also the year that we are going to see the real players emerge from among a sea of vendors with ‘me too’ marketing campaigns.