Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[Mark Tinka]

On 15/Mar/20 20:11, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I can top that. I was at a Data Center Real Estate conference some years back 
> when virtualization was all the rage.
>
> Admittedly, a lot of the people present (including this guy) were real-estate 
> types, not technical, 
>
> “Eventually, we’ll even be able to virtualize the machines and the network 
> and we won’t need all these datacenters
> and the amount of power required will be much less.”
>
> Kid you not… He literally thought we could virtualize away all of the 
> physical infrastructure.

Hehehe - that's not entirely unbelievable. Although it gave me a good
knee-tap :-).

#WhenTheInternetMakesYouThinkYouCanFly

Mark.