Scale Matters
While I don’t agree with some of Chuck’s predicted trends in Next Generation Data Centers, this post isn’t about those disagreements. I think it’s important to highlight the value of his observation about Information Technology (IT) at significant scale.
We move data centers of all sizes. The difference in these data centers, regardless of physical size, is stark when someone was worried about what it means to architect, design, and implement Information Technology with scaling in mind. You don’t have to be a large IT shop to worry about scale. You do have to understand why investing in point solutions can be very costly for your organization versus investing in something that is designed to scale.
This means often actively resisting the marketing themes that make instant trade press architects out of technical and non-technical people alike. You’ll find Chuck Hollis talking about these themes also — most recently in his Adventures in Server Marketing.
Scale matters.
If you live in the C-Suite, make sure you understand scale even better than your IT Division.
