Inside, in a space not much bigger than a three-car garage, was a single shaft-painting machine, a work station where clubs were cut to size and grips attached, and racks containing 40, 000 to 50, 000 shafts and 5, 000 clubheads.
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%.