Does your company have a data center? You know, a big room with a raised floor and rackmounted blade servers? Maybe a main frame?
If you answered no, then stop reading.
If you answered yes, then is your company's primary business hosting systems for others?
If you answered yes again, then stop reading.
If you're still reading, then you're either curious or you're working for a company that's screwed. The larger your company, the more screwed. And if you work in that data center, you are super-screwed.
Data centers are dead. The IT tyrants who refuse to listen to warnings about cost, service levels, and agility are dead, too, and they're evil. They're evil because their maniacal pride and malignant ignorance defraud your company's customers, steal the owners' money, and will shortly force lots of good people out of work and into new, lower paying careers. (Or "jobs" as we used to call them.)
Corporate run data centers cost about 1,500% more to operate than faster and more reliable outsourced solutions in various clouds. Yet many egotistical CIOs and CEOs take so much bloated pride in these theft systems that they show them off to visitors. Like Tony Soprano showing off the spot where he dumped Pussy's dead body.
A company I know of runs its own Microsoft Exchange servers at a cost of about $30 per employee per month. Google Apps provides better, faster, more secure, and more reliable email services for $50 per year.
Another company spends almost $4.00 per gigabyte for in-house databases. Moving their data to Amazon's cloud would cut this price to $.25 per GB while providing faster data access and more flexibility for developers and architects to invent better systems.
If your company has its own data center, you're about to be out of business.
Soon--very soon--your customers will do the math. They'll realize you're charging them $10,000 a month for networking services that are worth $100 on the open market. Yet your idiotic company isn't even making a profit on this theft. Your data center costs them $9,000 a month to operate! Not to mention that your software development is slow, expensive, and unimaginative. You have have no real innovation. You work longer and longer for fewer results. You won't get raise next year because your CIO's pride won't let you.
If, on the other hand, you buy from a company that brags about its own data center, tell them they have six months to move your systems to a real hosting company or you'll fire them.
The data center is dead, and yours is stinking up your lobby.
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