This pace of change is altering the way we look at data centres. They have become a necessary part of business and an integral part of every IT decision. When Google started out, they didn't do things the same way as other internet startups. They built their own hardware, they made their own software and they built their own data centres.
Now, companies all over the world are doing IT their way.
This pace of change shows no signs of stopping, so data centre operators have to be able to keep up. But the standards we use are being defined by a minority of organisations who have radically outpaced the rest of the industry because they have the scale to do it. This puts those standards out of reach of the majority of IT organisations. In order for their IT services to be able to compete, they are forced to outsource to the bigger players.
With recent concerns over security and high profile outages, this solution is not always the right one in the long term. What is needed is a way for smaller IT organisations to be able to run their own data centres as effectively as the big players without incurring huge initial outlays or ongoing costs.
A cultural change is needed in the data centre industry to enable a level playing field and take back the data centre. Its time to change IT for the better, one data centre at a time.