Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
"The reality is that the CIO today is very concerned
about operational efficiency and effectiveness and is looking for ways
to reduce costs. VMware has a very strong economic value proposition
for a CIO and I think we're seeing fundamental changes in CIO thinking
with regards to how build their environments for the future," he says.
"The overaching thing is that data centre of today is not going to be the data centre of the future."
So did Webster think that what's good for VMware, virtualisation and
cloud computing is bad for the likes of Dell, IBM, Sun, HP and other
server hardware makers?
"Yes I think what's going to happen is that the vision of cloud
computing is one of flexibility, a dynamic environment which can be
utilised as and when needed and the infrastructures that you're going
to need for that type of environment are not the technologies that
people have necessarily in their data centres today," Webster said.
Does that mean a permanent reduction in server hardware? Is this a trend?
"Data centres will shift from being compute farms to infrastructure
where information can be stored, delivered, and switched very quickly,"
he said.
"I think that the CIO focus is on efficiency and cost and therefore the
pressure on all parts of information technology infrastructure will
remain. I believe that the economic environment has caused the CIOs to
sweat their assets longer of which the server fleet is a key part.
"You combine that with technologies like VMware and you're starting to see change in the approach.
"When you get a shift in technologies, when you get a consolidation of
the unified network fabric into the unified computing platform, you're
going to get a change and therefore there is going to be some erosion
of the existing server market."
Some erosion in the existing server market has equated to a 40%
reduction in year on year sales for the first quarter of 2009. The
second quarter results, when they come in, should reveal a lot about
whether we have merely witnessed a downturn or a true paradigm shift.
David Bass
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