In a world where some see IT as a commodity, the important question is not “What is the cheapest computer you can build?” Rather it is, “What is the cheapest computing you can deliver?” The difference between the two is vast, and innovation lies at the heart of it.
Hal Stern, Vice President of Global Systems Engineering at Sun, welcomes CTO Greg Papadopoulos and CEO Jonathan Schwartz to a special video edition of Innovating@Sun. The trio discuss how companies in so-called commodity-based businesses successfully use R&D to differentiate their performance and win new business. Other details include:
With an R&D budget of $2 billion per year, Schwartz says one thing is certain. You can't predict what will come of that. Who could have predicted that a shipping container would be the ideal infrastructure for building large scale datacenters? Or that the power efficiency of Niagara would be one of its key differentiators and grow to a $100 milllion/quarter business. The investment in innovation is what allows that to happen.
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Posted at 11:53AM Nov 08, 2006 by Laura Ventura in Sun [permalink]
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