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In a recent Information Week article by Darrell Dunn, he tells of a survey by AFCOM:
“Twenty-one percent of the respondents to a survey by InterUnity Group and AFCOM say they plan to implement utility computing next year, and 10.6% of those already using the model say they expect to increase its use next year. Vendors with utility-style offerings, such as VeriCenter, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems, are seeing the results of such investments.”
This is well and good, customers are seeing the utility in using someone else's capital to run their businesses. The problem is that so long as IBM's David Gelardi continues to say:
“You really can't look at capacity on demand in the same way as a utility like water or electricity because it's more sophisticated than that,” he says. “We're not there as an industry yet, and I know most clients aren't there yet.”
We have to ask ourselves, so what's the holdup... could it be IBM's “Customization” business, that sustains complexity within a customer's processes and systems to drive revenue? Where is that customization.... Power vs. x64, AIX vs. Linux (which distribution), and the ever increasing complexity of the Globus Toolkit target?
BTW: is this transparent to you? Also, AFCOM has a really interesting article on the importance of workflow as a utility enabler.
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