For all the great computing advances of the 1990s, it turns out we were racing toward a brick wall in terms of data center design.
As Sun Microsystems explains on its Web site, the goal of most ’90s IT architects was –– to “decompose applications into separate components.” That sounds like what happens in a compost pile, but we’ll leave that one alone …
Actually, they’re talking about the way most applications were replicated for availability, hosted on separate, dedicated servers and supplied with more processing power than necessary.
So we made a bunch of inefficient, power-hungry, land-hogging data centers that now cost a fortune to operate.
That’s why Sun’s virtualization and consolidation efforts are important. Through virtualization technology, companies can make multiple applications share servers. There are many other benefits to consolidation and virtualization, so – tough as it might be – it really is time to kiss the ’90s goodbye.
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