This might surprise you folks, but Smart Grid (intelligent power distribution and management) is even more important to our nation’s future success than the Cloud is! Interestingly enough in many cases one enables the other or at least dramatically improves its usability and performance.
The current situation in our data centers (Infrastructure 1.0) has many things in common with our current electrical grid (lets call it Grid 1.0). The IT infrastructure in our data centers today is very manual, use isn’t easily measured and demand isn’t easily provisioned or de-provisioned as requirements change. The infrastructure is managed through a combination of tools and spreadsheets that require on-going support from IT staff. As pointed out by other members of the Infrastructure 2.0 group, we’ve created highly qualified “IT Clerk” positions in order to support this very manual and complex issue. By its very design we’ve created an environment that’s much like a hologram, it works great when you’re in your nice little box (four walls of the data center), but don’t try to get the hologram to step outside or poof, no more hologram.
Fully Story @ http://www.infra20.com/post.cfm/smart-grid-the-cloud-why-are-they-linked-1#ixzz1ASL91jBA
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