Servers As High As An Elephant's Eye - As Web-based computing surges, massive "server farms" are springing up
I stumbled upon this link yesterday which talks about comanies with an increasing internet presence getting nervous about the costs and infrastructure involved in deploying massive data centers:http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_24/b3988087.htm
It is apparent that all companies have to go online somewhere down the line. so be it a google or Microsoft all are in line to aquire more and more data centers. This in turn means deploying thousands of servers all around the world and so many employees to manage them as well.
As i wrote in my previous blog, the answer seems to be: content delivery and when we speak of content delivery you would speak of Akamai in the same breath. Looks like, they could envision the inevitable much before the issue cropped up. Maybe it is time that companies take a look at it. The company has a web site at www.akamai.com. I feel the benifits of outsourcing the job of managing and deploying the datacenters to a company like Akamai could be immense. Where the value proposition lies in : a more schalable, reliable, faster and economic solution.
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