Unless Europe mandates use of the American identifier, and that is confirmed by legislation in the 27 member countries, banks will have a difficult business case to undertake the expensive conversion to a single global standard.
In five years, Dutra says, more efficient servers and virtualization--the conversion of multiple computers into software that can be run on a single machine--will allow Sun to do away with five of its eight data centers, reducing both the centers' square footage and data consumption by around 50%.