As more enterprises incorporate cloud computing into their IT infrastructure, the number of clouds will proliferate, and there will be “thousands of clouds deployed out in the world,” Dell executive Forrest Norrod said at a press briefing here this week. Many will be owned by enterprises on their premises, and others will be offered by smaller cloud service providers, “in the thousands or tens of thousands of servers, not millions,” said Norrod, vice president of Dell’s data center solutions division. These will be deployed in specialty services or for customers that have regulatory, privacy or other concerns, he added.
Enterprises Looking to the Clouds, Dell Says
August 28, 2008