IBM urges virtualization for data centers
Virtualization, SOA, and cloud computing are keys to accommodating the anticipated growth of datacenters in an energy-conscious environment, an IBM official stressed Monday. In a keynote presentation and subsequent interview at the Share conference in California, Helene Armitage, vice president of systems software development in the IBM systems and technology group, emphasized substantial growth projections for datacenters.
She also noted concerns about whether the power grid can handle this growth. Industries such as medical imaging and financial services are experiencing rapid growth, Armitage said. "Thirty percent of the world's storage in the next two years is going to be these medical images," she said. Meanwhile, there are 5 billion messages occurring in the financial trading realm each day with the number projected to grow to the 130 billion per day in the next two years, she said. Adding to the situation, storage capacity in datacenters is doubling every 18 months.
