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Thursday May 05, 2005

The Old IT Is Dead. Long Live the New

I've been sitting on an article for a little while (4/18). I just found it refreshing that a journalist finally said something that made sense in explaining today's corporate buying & investor strategies.

“the industry is on the cusp of a sweeping change to new information technologies such as true mainframes-on-a-chip, Web services, and open-source software... Everything we talked about in the '70s, '80s, and '90s -- putting together clusters of PCs to replace big machines -- is finally happening.”

And finally a statement that I fully support...

“The fact that the next generation is less expensive does not mean that growth disappears. If you wind up uncovering significant new ranges of applications and you end up deploying them far more widely, you're going to dramatically expand digital services.”

I think that most everyone recognizes the growth of stored data that everything from compliance to RFID are driving to record levels, and it can only be expected that people are going to want to begin to capitalize on this expense that they are incurring, through programs including statistical analysis for business process optimization, product quality / time dependent reliability, or financial planning. What was holding us back? I can only suggest that it had something to do with cost, something with scale, and something with complexity. Only by looking systematically across these factors can we finally realize a solution.

Keywords: grid, grid computing, on demand, utility, utility computing

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