Comments on: I saw AT&T’s cloud http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/i-saw-atts-cloud/ Meteorology for the cloud computing world Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:39:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: CarlBrooks http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/i-saw-atts-cloud/#comment-46 CarlBrooks Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:41:57 +0000 http://1721983592#comment-46 Well not just the shiny, although I admit I am a bit of a hardware aficionado, shiny stuff makes me happy. But you’re right, it’s par for the course with any modern datacenter. What stood out to me was the amount of empty space and planned-for capacity. There’s easily 10 years worth of fast, steady growth in that building.

What I was trying to bring across, which may have been a little bit lost in the post, is that the big telecom companies are clearly ready for a long term, massive growth in the need for infrastructure, especially infrastructure as a service.

Amazon is making a lot of hay right now on economies of scale and automated delivery, but it buys data center space from other people (Equinix hosts a great deal of AWS infrastructure on each coast). AT&T and Verizon are copying that efficient model, and they own their own facilities, cutting out one more middleman. The math seems simple to me, long term.

]]> By: Baseball2001 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/i-saw-atts-cloud/#comment-45 Baseball2001 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:25:47 +0000 http://1721983592#comment-45 “The long term future of cloud infrastructures is probably in these facilities, and not with Google or Microsoft or Amazon.”

Really? Because they have a shiny datacenter? You’ve pretty much described most datacenters I’ve been in. What makes ATT’s so different from the above companies that they are going to take away market share?

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