Green Data Centers

Next up is Bill Coleman (Cassatt Corporation) who is responsible for B in BEA. He is also credited for his work on Solaris. Currently he is CEO of Cassatt Corporation. The talk is about Green Data Centers.

• What we are doing today in data centers is unsustainable. He calls them 'your father's data center'
• Concerns
• first is energy cost
• second is operations cost. IDC says it has gone from 25% to 75%.
• everything is a lot more complex today than it was 15 years ago.
• how we got here? this is a consequence of innovation. In 1990, people were putting networks in data centers. Then came storage, followed by software people who wanted multi-tiered applications. Then came DBAs :)
• Then came virtualization. Is it end of IT? We are doing things still as it is 1960s. There is no automation involved, everything must be changed physically.
• We are at end of sustainability of data centers as we know it today.
• Virtualization makes scale a little bit better. All we are doing is pushing back the ends.
• 1.0 of cloud: i can build a green field application with proprietary
• 2.0 of cloud: functions of PC now exist in cloud. it will still be proprietary.
• Apple invented PC but didn't commoditize it.
• Very low utilization rates. The next phase of cloud computing will offer higher utilization rates.

Thanks Bill for a great insight into green data centers.