The enterprise data center of the future will be a highly flexible and adaptable organism, responding quickly to changing needs because of technologies like virtualization, a modular building approach, and an operating system that treats distributed resources as a single computing pool. The move toward flexibility in all data center processes, discussed extensively by analysts and IT professionals at Gartner’s 27th annual data center conference, comes after years of building monolithic data centers that react poorly to change.
Elastic IT Resources Transform Data Centers
December 4, 2008