With all due respect to developers, it bugs me when they subdivide farms and then include the word “farm” in the name of the new development. You know, like “Farm Hill Estates” or “The Orchards at Rustic Knoll Farm.”Call me a young urbanite, but there’s also something unsettling about the term “server farm.” Things, mainly plants and animals, grow on farms. They even breed and reproduce. If servers start growing, breeding and reproducing, we’re doomed.All this talk about farms and servers reminded me of Sun Microsystems. Not because plants on farms need the Sun to grow, but because Sun’s server virtualization and consolidation efforts are helping companies reduce the size of their data centers.Every acre not needed for a sprawling data center is one more acre for a farm. Or a housing tract named after one. For more information, please visit www.electronicdatagirl.com
