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To: P2V who wrote (42893)	6/26/2013 5:58:31 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi P2V, Do you think the mainframe, now that cloud has become commonplace, stands a chance of replacing the commodity servers now being used? How long will it be until someone develops the right processes to support the "consolidation" of thousands of servers into a single box, much in the same way that tens of thousands of corporate data centers were whittled down, through consolidation, to a relative few? Amazing, the fractal nature of it all, and the persistence of the pendulum to defy conventional wisdom. The one important attribute the brainiacs either forget or de-emphasize, while siting data centers on the other side of the globe -- in order to optimize power spending, is latency. So much attention is now going to optimizing the data center shell and innards for power consumption, at a time of shifting application profiles, that the IT and structural architects may not be giving sufficient thought to application needs. By this I mean, making the overall scheme of data center interactions application-aware, with respect to the user communities they serve. FAC ------