A short recap

Written on Jun 18 2008 2,408 views, 2 comments

by Michael Keen

Not to take anything away from the awesome technical content that is available this week here at BriForum, but I think the conversations that have been had in the debate sessions where the topic was set and the audience was encouraged to participate.  And participate they did.  I have attended most of the sessions where this was the format and I have to tell you that they were the best and full of lively engaging conversations. 

The two that I attended yesterday, The Future of Client Computing and Virtualize Citrix Servers: Yes? or No? were by far the ones I liked the best.  The first was with Brian and Martin Ingram.  We touched upon where we are today, where the technology will be in two to three years and then finally what things might look like in five to eight.  Everyone had input and provided very interesting thoughts and comments.  I offered my input towards the end where I threw out a term that I think will be gaining traction in the next few years or so; Virtual Service-Oriented Grids.  I have another post on this subject so will let it go at that. 

The second session is where we discussed the benefits, risks, rewards of virtualizing XenApp servers.  There were many that were doing this already and not just in test/dev, but in true production.  There was a fair amount of discussions around the power/cooling subject.  One of the attendees (who was with a power company) offered this little tidbit:  it will coming to a power company near you soon to where the power company would be able to monitor the usage of the grid every fifteen minutes and bill accordingly.  When, not if, this comes to fruition will put more drive behind the "green" movement in the data center and on the desktop.

I have to say that if you haven't been able to get to BriForum before get here next year.  You don't want to miss the great technical content, but you definitely don't want to miss the engaging and enlightening conversations and debates.

See you next year everyone!!!

 Cheers
Michael

Comments

Ewen Bruce wrote scary but true

on 06-18-2008 8:25 AM

That guys power grid comment was scary, but really of no surpirse.  It's technology creeping up with us, and it was bound to happen.  I just didn't expect it so soon.

David Caddick wrote Power Limitations are already here...

on 06-20-2008 6:43 AM

Just to add an anecdote to this, in Sydney a lot of companies have decided to have their offices just north in a an area called North Ryde (Microsoft, Citrix, Oracle, Optus (telco), etc.) and although it has become quite popular because it is (or was) cheaper rent that the city centre it has now got to a stage where the local council has a mortorium on any new Data Centres in the area because they can't supply enough power.

If you take this on board and then start thinking that the current price of crude is representing "Peak Oil" pricing, in that it will only get more expensive because we are not discovering any more reserves, then it would seem inevitible that the cost of power will also being getting more and more expensive to the point that it will quite posibly start to represent a double digit percentage value of the IT's budget?

Food for thought? 

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