If you’ve been listening to industry chatter, then you’ve probably heard murmurs about the death of the data center. Although these claims are quite provocative, you don’t need to beeline to your closet to pull out your funeral clothes just yet — the data center is by no means dead.
As long as workloads need to be processed, data centers will never be dead. Even if the industry were to evolve into 100% workload processing via virtual machines in the cloud, there will still be data centers anchoring our applications. And until the millennials fully take over the IT processing at organizations, there will always be on-premises servers churning.