US data centers get bigger, but there are fewer of them – survey • The Register

US data centers get bigger, but there are fewer of them – survey • The Register

The IDC report that El Reg uses for this is very much worth looking at. Essentially, starts by numerating the obvious--the cloud's increasing dominance--but does so by nuancing the crucial point often elided: that this move away from corporate centralized intranets is a move to 3rd-party service providers. That migration is immensely important, for a couple of reasons. One is that it implicitly promotes the development of specific technologies able to manage a renaissance of data. Another is that it puts into play a logic of standards and even code openness. And it implicitly lays the groundwork for the creation of a professional class able to work in this burgeoning field.