Business and enterprise software, and other applications that help a business run

A recent article in the Economist concurs with the case that we have been making here about the infrastructure needed for the business computing model of the future. The article quotes IDC figures that indicate that there are more than 7,000 large data centers in the US alone, and this is obviously a worldwide phenomenon. The number of centers spread across the globe must be impressive, indeed. And these are not small centers. They are, as the Economist says, “the size of several football pitches.” That's big.

Many of these data centers are being in order to allow global access of data from the clouds, an integral part of our future business computing paradigm. The investment required by this data infrastructure is incredibly large. It is not just the buildings, and the people, and the computers, it is also the mega-bandwidth connections required and the provision of power to the enterprise. These centers are not conjecture; they are being built now.

So, if you have had the thought while reading the articles so far in this series that it all sounds like a pipe dream, ask yourself if a bevy of major corporations would be investing collective billions of dollars in such a pipe dream. These dollars are hard to come by, and are not likely to be thrown away. They are being spent now, well before the fact, in order to be there when the cloud computing revolution occurs.

That is how you can be sure that the revolution is going to occur.