InternetEnterprises Looking to the Clouds, Dell Says

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SAN FRANCISCO -- As more enterprises incorporate cloud computing (define) into their IT infrastructure, the number of clouds will proliferate, and there will be "thousands of clouds deployed out in the world," Dell executive Forrest Norrod said at a press briefing here this week. Many will be owned by enterprises on their premises, and others will be offered by smaller cloud service providers, "in the thousands or tens of thousands of servers, not millions," said Norrod, vice president of Dell's data center solutions division. These will be deployed in specialty services or for customers that have regulatory, privacy or other concerns, he added.. These clouds will require customized stripped-down servers with the bare minimum of capabilities because "advanced graphics, flashy plastics, or lots of PCI slots waste power because they won't be used by a large-scale infrastructure," Facebook vice president of technical operations Jonathan Heiliger said. Facebook has its own cloud of 10,000 servers distributed through several locations in the United States. That's the kind of servers Dell's data center solutions division specializes in. "We support customers building out the largest clouds," Norrod said, adding that his group "provides customized storage, server and data center infrastructure solutions to the 50 largest customers worldwide." RELATED ARTICLES IBM Thinking Green for N.C. Datacenter HP, Intel, Yahoo Team on Cloud Computing Labs PTO Rains on Dell's 'Cloud... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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