Charles Aunger has posed an interesting article contemplating the reality of an On-Demand data centre over at Frameworkx. Following is an excerpt from the article:

Now Citrix have brought Ardence and consolidation in the platform delivery market with Symantec buying altiris, Microsoft buying Softricity is there going to be change to the way we view data centre infrastructure. Is an On-Demand Data centre infrastructure an option.

Data centre sprawl?

Servers just waiting for a Disaster?

Systems only running at 20% utilisation?

Would love to use commodity hardware?

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