In a recent blog post on Crave, the year 2008 will bring a massive data meltdown, or at least according to Subodh Bapat, a vice president in the eco-computing team at Sun Microsystems. "You'll see a massive failure in a year," Bapat said at a dinner with reporters on Monday. "We are going to see a data center failure of that scale." Company data centers have been pushed to their limits, so a data failure is entirely possible. Michael Knalleos goes on to write:
On a more cheery note, Bapat and other Sun executives said that the IT industry is also on the verge of a construction boom that, if it happens, will lead to big orders for equipment for makers of servers, storage systems, and other data center equipment.The typical life span of a data center is only about 10 to 12 years, said the Sun executives. Thus, a lot of those data centers built at the beginning of the dot-com era need to be rebuilt. Other companies like Facebook are expanding rapidly as well. (Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos mentioned Facebook several times, so it sounds like maybe Sun is working with, or trying to work with, them. Just a thought.)
Great sales pitch, Sun. Yell fire and then start selling fire insurance. Say that there is a drought and start selling water bottles. Good for business, but hidden motives are never well received.