Are we Red or are we Blue?

Some of you with engineering background may be familiar with the Doppler Effect.  A while ago, I read an article from Information Week about an insightful analog of the D.E. with regards to computing demand today versus Moore's Law, as described by Sun's CTO.

Basically, Red-shift Companies/processes/applications are growing so quickly that Moore's Law can't keep pace.  No matter how much faster, bigger, or better the technology is, they will still need more more more.

Blue-shifters are the opposite; their IT needs are more than adequately accommodated with today's technology.  This is a space I see VMware and service consolidation fitting very nicely; our own foray into VMware started with the idea of consolidating lots of underutilized servers, to higher util% on perhaps bigger hardware.

WRDS and Research Computing, on the other hand, is clearly a space that can always benefit from faster/bigger/better technology.  Amazon, Google, Twitter, YouTube, they all have monumental Blue-shifted requirements.

Remember when Huntsman Hall first opened, along with our new DataCenter?  Remember how quickly it filled up with rack upon rack of server upon server?  Clearly, we Red-shifted in terms of space, cooling, power, etc.

With the VMware and other server consolidation projects, with the advent of Blade technologies and consolidated SAN storage, I think we've crossed over to the Blue.

I'd posit that two crucial pieces of our infrastructure has remained squarely in the Red: storage and square-footage.  I don't know how many times in the last 6 months I've said that our limiting factor is Storage.  And, you know what?  We're expanding into a newer, bigger DataCenter in the next six months!

So, here's the question.  Is Wharton (Computing) Red-shifting or Blue-shifting?  Give that article a read and share your own insights into your own processes in the comments!