First Work Experience with Sponsors

Today, I had a real taster of what it was like to work at one of the Capgemini offices in London. As my project is related to Data Centres my supervisor thought it would be a very good idea to meet the person who knows everything about them and so he sent me to one of our team members called Les.

After a brief introduction I got on with doing more researching into Cloud Computing (CC). CC is the latest trend word floating around the Internet. The base of CC, the technology infrastructure, is provided as a service over the Internet and the end user is able to set up their own scalable virtual servers and development platforms at a very cheap price. But why would someone want that? Well, running your own Data Centre and buying the equipment for it is very expensive. If your business demands increase so will your equipment cost as you add more hardware to cope with it. Let's not forget about the actual building, air conditioning systems and constant supply of electricity too ;)

Some organisations like Amazon Web Services have already established a capable infrastructure that they offer to the public in which the consumer is able to "purchase/rent" the resources at an hourly rate depending on how much processor, memory and hard drive space you need. This totally eliminates the need for an organisation to maintain their own DC infrastructure.

Could Cloud Computing replace the traditional Data Centres? Will this help tackle carbon emissions and reduce the overall energy consumptions from DC's? :D