{"id":7453,"date":"2013-05-20T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/may\/20\/vendor-agnostic-datacenters-fact-or-fantasy\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:15:00","slug":"vendor-agnostic-data-centres-fact-or-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/vendor-agnostic-data-centres-fact-or-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendor-agnostic data centres: Fact or fantasy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways, everything about IT is about creating uniformity. Standard configurations. Synchronized patches. 1000 identical laptops shipped to all employees. <\/p>\n<p>We place a high premium on &#8220;everything being exactly the same.&#8221;&nbsp; And for good reason &#8211; if everything is the same, management and administration becomes far far easier. <\/p>\n<p>And while we enjoy the fantasy of racks and racks of identically-configured servers humming away in the icy cold data centre of the future, anyone who knows what a data centre smells like (mmm, silicon) also knows that we can, at best, approximate that fantasy &#8211; but never truly taste it. <\/p>\n<p>Why? Life is a big, hairy exception.<\/p>\n<p>Exceptions for different workloads. Exceptions for supported software packages. Legacy systems where updates are either impossible or cost-prohibitive. New environments needed to support fun new applications and capabilities. Servers bought by enterprising LOB folks and stored under their desk until they were confiscated like gum &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways, everything about IT is about creating uniformity. Standard configurations. Synchronized patches. 1000 identical laptops shipped to all employees. We place a high premium on &#8220;everything being exactly the same.&#8221;&nbsp; And for good reason &#8211; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}