Time passes very quickly. One day you’re graduating from college and before you know it, your kids are in college. And a lot of things happened in between. Today, August 30, 2016 I saw this tweet:
In case you weren’t aware you were watching IT history: The data center has left the building. #cio #cloud #VMWorld twitter.com/holgermu/statu…
And @PGelsinger predicts that 2016 where Service Provider DCs pass Enterprise DCs. #VMWorld pic.twitter.com/3RNJzNDLvX
I recalled arguing for the demise of the enterprise data center in October, 2010. Seems like it was yesterday. Wondering what I said almost 6 years ago, I finally located the slide deck. Then I found an mp3 of the conference session. Didn’t want to try and marry the two, so I’m including both here. Listening and manually moving through the slides makes my original point, even more valid today — Owning Your Own Data Center Is So Last Century.
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