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Sun Plans to Have No In-House Data Centers by 2015

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-to-give-your-seven-year-notice dept.

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."

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  1. Eat your own dog food. by Valdrax · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, if *Sun* can't afford to maintain a Solaris data center, then who can?

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    1. Re:Eat your own dog food. by Crafack · · Score: 5, Funny

      No. It's virtual servers all the way down.

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  2. Eliminate data centers? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Another initiative from Sun: We would soon all have Net PCs.

  3. No machines by SEWilco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine no Beowulf cluster of these.

  4. Re:Sun does... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Sun provides heat and light for the Earth. If the Sun cuts back by 50%, the Earth becomes cooler and darker. Of course, that will be great news for the polar bears. :P