Vijay Subramanian

Data center administrators are faced with the challenge of what to do with in-house versus cloud services. Following two years of lean spending on IT infrastructure, the hype over cloud services has caught the attention of everyone - from the C-suite to the functional leadership in organizations as diverse as finance, marketing, logistics and operations. Providers like Salesforce.com are tailoring their message not to the IT department but to the CEO and CFO, promising cost savings, improved reliability and greater business agility. IT leaders are presented with concepts of "indoor" or "private" clouds. Over those same two years, existing data center equipment is ripe for replacement. Innovations in areas like virtualization, power optimization, and multi-core processors coupled with increasing maintenance expenses are providing an incentive for many enterprise org... (more)