According to an article published last week at investors.com, more than half of surveyed IT managers would like to be rid of buying and maintaining servers.    Between this trend and the phenomenon of virtualization, we will see a gradual disappearance of the server in business architecture.  More service-based infrastructure, applications and the demands this places on a network infrastructure means more bandwidth utilization in the corporate environment.

What does this mean, well we will see more and more emphasis on network availability.  I can’t count how many times I have gone to a client site and identified a sole T1 for the office.  This is early 90’s technology and must be addressed.  Highly redundant connections and equipment should be employed in any environment serious about getting their IP and lifeblood out in the cloud.   That’s a bit of a rant, but I have run into a number of clients in just the last couple of weeks that do not have this covered.

If you are finding your business looking at the advantages of the cloud, then you must address this single point-of-failure.