AFCOM’s
Data Center Institute (DCI), a leading industry think-tank, convened
at Data Center World 2010 to discuss concepts and approaches to cloud
computing and what this technology means to data center professionals
everywhere. These concepts and recommendations will be summarized in
an AFCOM DCI Cloud Computing report that was to be released in April.
During a keynote at the event, Equinix CIO
Brian Lillie encouraged data center owners and operators to “embrace”
the cloud. Both Lillie and AFCOM CEO Jill Eckhaus agreed that cloud
computing already had already begun to come into its own as a
possible cost-savings and reliability strategy, with Lillie pointing
out several Paas, IaaS, and SaaS success stories.
“The
report will provide basic guidance around the emerging concepts of
cloud computing for the data center professional, looking at how he
or she can get involved in the cloud computing migration process, and
determine the impact on the data center as well as other IT assets,”
states David S. Linthicum, the CTO of Bick Group, and the lead author
of the report. “It will also provide the ‘how’ more so than
the ‘what’ around cloud computing. The guidance to the data
center professional should prove invaluable.”
