The data center has gone through several major evolutionary changes over the past several decades, and each change has been defined by major shifts in computing. The industry moved from the mainframe era to client/server computing and then to Internet computing.

In 2010, another major shift began - the shift to a virtual data center. The shift to a virtual data center will be the single biggest transition in the history of computing. This transition will reshape all the major data center tiers: applications, storage, servers and the network. Read more.