You Can Now Buy Up to 16 Terabytes of Storage from Google

The Cloud Storage blog refers to a 451 Group report, which states that the cloud computing market is supposed to reach $16.3 billion by 2013. Storage will drive that growth.

IBM had a credit card processor client with more than 4,700 servers spread across 10 data centers. IBM did an analysis and found that the servers were being underutilized. IBM emploted VMware and Intel innovation to create a virtualization platform that consolidated servers and lowered the time and cost of administration.

Optimizing IT infrastructure is always in season. While challenging times, nevertheless, it becomes more than an aspiration: making the most of your IT assets becomes an imperative for competitive advantage, and ultimately, survival. Based on the proven ROI and business success of virtualization for server consolidation, many organizations are looking to extend their virtualization efforts to encompass the entire datacenter, from the OS to the network to the management of those critical business information assets.