consolidation & cloud

Organizations and corporations are consolidating multiple data centers into one while maintaining multiple expensive disaster recovery and backup sites. Data center consolidation continues to be a key part of organization’s strategy to save money and increase performance and efficiency in the IT area. For example, the US government issued an ambitious consolidation initiative that aims to slash the number of federal data centers from 2,094 to 1,132 by 2015.    

As private and public cloud solutions are maturing and become more popular, large and small in-house data and computing centers will reside in big facilities taking advantage of scale economy. After several years of excitement and hype, the cloud computing market now enters a more mature phase. Undoubtedly, IT operations will begin shifting towards cloud platforms, which offer an additional cost-effective option in a growing menu of deployment options.

Cloud computing becomes attractive among small and medium-size businesses, but enterprise adoption has been slowed down by security and regulatory compliance concerns.