Critical Thinking: Growing role of hyper-scale cloud platforms in enterprise IT raises big questions about the open source data center project’s long-term mission.
True, most of the world’s data centers – about four million of them, according to some estimates – are still owned and operated by enterprises. But the bulk of those are small IT rooms or closets. Most large cloud service providers still use servers or other gear from traditional technology suppliers but have also seized the initiative by sourcing custom hardware from ODMs as well as developing and deploying OCP equipment.