Emerging Trend: Companies Eliminating Their Data Centers

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Liked the article below by TechRepublic which talks about cloud and utility computing being the future.  Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are investing heavily to get ready.

1. Cloud computing: Applications and services delivered over the Internet
2. Utility computing: On-demand server capacity powered by virtualization and delivered over the Internet

“For governments, large financial institutions, and other high-security environments, outsourcing the data center will probably never make sense. For virtually everyone else, it’s going to become a very attractive option in the next 3-5 years. I suspect that a decade from now running your own data center will be the exception and not the rule, and IT departments will need a strong business case to justify the existence of a private data center.”  >> Read the article