In a world where IT is served up on-demand, firms that know how to provide bits
and bytes in a manner analogous to electricity will be in demand, says Interxion
UK Managing Director Greg McCulloch
corporate firewall, the data centre host can only become
more important. The new data centres will be built on a
massive scale to support the huge increase in numbers of
users. It will have to be very secure because compromises
could have a drastic effect on tenants. And it will have to be
absolutely reliable to satisfy the demands of the world’s
largest organisations.
Clearly, this will demand specialist
know-how. Running a multi-tenanted
data centre that can support vast
numbers of users, stay up even in the
event of a power outage and can
withstand malicious attacks will
become a powerful new currency, as
more firms run key software
operations out of house.
Also, data centre hosts will need to
gain access to critical equipment such
as power generators and have the know-
how to deal with energy groups, building
licensors and others.
Very quickly, the world will change from one
where running IT operations in house is a core
competency to one where knowing how to find the
right partner is the most important skill. There will be
plenty of choice as carriers, enterprise IT giants and
huge software organisations like Microsoft and
Google build out their operations for this new world.
But the real winners will be firms that have in-depth
knowledge of how to serve multiple customers, provide
real guarantees of uptime and availability, and can
the correct approach for sales automation and customer
withstand threats from attack and power outages.
relationship management, NetSuite has created system for
running core applications on the web, Google would like
Just as electricity moved from being privately generated to
you to move your productivity applications to this model,
a grid providing a reliable source of power, there will rise up
and
Amazon.com has built an ecosystem for running entire
a new network of data centres providing bits and bytes to
operations in the ‘cloud’. Security vendors like Symantec
businesses.
see value in scanning for security threats before they even
enter the business, and even Microsoft is building code that
In a world dominated by digitisation, this will be the new
suits this new way of working. In a world where
power grid. In the meantime the demand for hosted
applications, security and other programs sit outside the
services is continuing to rise.
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