Sun's Bapat - 2008 Will Bring A Massive Data Meltdown

What is a Data Center Meltdown? We are about to find out according to post on Crave, in line with my predictions that as more and more data moves into smaller and smaller spaces, and it is made available to the world the data breaches will get larger and larger. From the post Crave - Predictions for 2008: A massive data meltdown:

Remember the panic when the first computer worm hit? We're going to have a crisis like that next year when we get the first data center meltdown, predicted Subodh Bapat, a vice president in the eco-computing team at Sun Microsystems.

"You'll see a massive failure in a year," Bapat said at a dinner with reporters on Monday. "We are going to see a data center failure of that scale."

"That scale" referred to the problems caused by the worm created by Cornell grad student Robert Morris Jr. in 1988. His worm infected about 5 percent of the Unix boxes on the Internet, freaked people out, and helped jump-start the security industry.

Of course, it's just a prediction, so there is no guarantee that it will happen. But it does seem possible. Data centers have mushroomed with the flood of processes and jobs being turned over to the Internet. Companies have built up their data centers, but even with technologies like virtualization it's been tough to keep up. At some point, a data center is going to crash and people are going to go spastic.

I remember that worm, it missed my servers but no so some of the others in my data center. I hope they are wrong but I have a feeling that they may not be.

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