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Sun Plans to Have No In-House Data Centers by 2015
1sockchuck writes "Sun Microsystems wants to cut its IT department's data center footprint in half within five years, and then eliminate in-house data centers completely shortly afterward. 'Our goal is to reduce our entire data center presence by 2015,' writes Sun data center architect Brian Cinque, who says Sun hopes to shift its in-house IT to a software-as-a-service model. Sun will use virtualization and consolidation to reduce its data center space and energy usage by 50 percent by 2013, with a goal of moving it all online two years later. Sun's plan reflects the shift to utility computing discussed in Nicholas Carr's new book, which we debated earlier this week."
they SELL servers and write OSes... and think they should pay somebody else to run it!
That's kind of crappy. If you don't "eat your dog food" as a HARDWARE and OS company, who can take you seriously? If you aren't running your own stuff, you're loosing the BEST opportunity to improve your product!!! If you run your product in production, then you can make your CUSTOMER experience better... something all these people forget. Nothing beats dealing with a company that can take a day and REPEAT your problem on their in house hardware... But if they don't ever USE the software they way you might, they'll NEVER be able to do that.