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Welcome to the Internet of Everything… Hello everyone,
I spent some time at the CounterTerror Expo event at the end of April talking to a number of Disaster Recovery (DR) professionals – many of whom were busy promoting their cloud-based services as a means of almost instantly recovering from all manner of major networking and technology problems.
One of the key take-outs for me was the focus on how much energy clients are using, as many of the cloud-based DR systems could also be used as an alternative to so-called `bricks and mortar’ local data centres.
The reason why energy is so important is that cloud-based data centres are – quite literally – a major cost saving vehicle for large corporates, simply because, like a taxi or rental car, you really do pay-as-you-go.
In many instances, the use of a cloud resource in preference to a local data centre can achieve significant cost savings – even when resilient optical Internet bandwidth is factored into the equation – that have a payback (aka return on investment) period measured in a matter of a few dozen months.
It is therefore quite fitting that two of the key topics for this latest issue of Netcomms Europe include cloud computing and green networking, as both topics go hand in hand with each other.
And as Geoff Bennett of Infinera explains on P40 of this issue, as we progress down the technology path known as the Internet of Everything, power usage in data centres is set to soar.
The good news is that technology can come to the rescue, but only if our industry is prepared to invest in deploying the technology - and calculate the CapEx and OpEx savings that result.
As a former accountant myself, I am mildly amused when IT professionals complain that the `bean counters’ are taking over the decision-making side of the industry.
When it comes to cloud computing and green technology, however, I think that allowing the bean counters to do their stuff is probably going to be the best way forward as we progress to the Internet of Everything.
May all of your problems be little ones. Steve Gold, Editor, Netcomms Europe
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