No doubt somebody somewhere is pitching an executive about the wonders of robotic IT staff or a data center completely run by HAL or IBM Watson. A better approach for data center managers is to gravitate toward the tangible, obvious implementations.
Ellen Rubin founded e-commerce startup Manna at the height of the dot-com boom, and when the bubble burst, Manna went with it, but that didn't stop her from moving forward.
In what should be a comfortably advancing career, the over-40 group faces a hard choice – learn new skills or face early retirement – or worse, be consigned to performing IT grunt work for the latest hot-shot hire who is 20 years their junior.
If you believe, like one Data Center World speaker does, that millennials will continue to command the attention of smart organizations, then MILN might provide an interesting investment opportunity.