2008: The Year of... What?

Green Computing? Grid Computing? Virtualization? SOA? These aren't the only topics being discussed as relevant in 2008, however they are the topics being discussed the most. Which of these, in the next 11 months and 29 days, is going to impact you and your business?

For me, the answer is "E - All of the Above" :)

Not because they are topical and worthy of thought or discussion or implementation (they are!), but because they are all responses to a common problem manifest in today's data centers: utilization. For as long as there have been data centers supporting the business, the approach typically taken to ensure the *-ilities - availability, scalability, reliability - of business critical applications has been to over-procure and over-deploy hardware in static, siloed, under-utilized configurations.

Clearly, continuing to to do things "the way we always have" isn't an option, not any more. So, here's to 2008: The Year of... Doing Things Differently!