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Digital data is the new raw material. It is being processed, stored and distributed in data centers. In the traditional economy the printing press created newspapers with ink and paper, in the digital economy bits are transformed into online news in the data center. In the traditional enterprise employees informally shared social news through watercooler […] Read more »
Which organisations are best placed to adapt and benefit most by fully embracing the trend towards cloud-based business models? Whether or not you have legacy has got a lot to do with it: [legacy] something left or handed down by a predecessor [legacy] denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but […] Read more »
So much became clear October 1st when a power failure at Easynet’s Schiphol datacenter affected the proper functioning of parts of the traditional, connected and online economy. It took about 1.5 hours before Easynet went public with a tweet and about 11 hours before services were fully restored: We suffered a power failure in our […] Read more »
‘The World Is Flat’ by Thomas Friedman and ‘The Big Switch’ by Nicholas Carr are two bestsellers that deal with the globalisation of labour (Friedman) and the emergence of a global compute grid (Carr). Both phenomena are essentially driven by the Internet and computer revolution. Both phenomena are also having a profound effect on the […] Read more »
“Mind the gap” is a warning to the IT department to take caution while crossing the gap between the enterprise IT infrastructure and employee and customer IT usage. There is more than just one gap, for instance: The gap between legacy IT infrastructure and the cloud. Our elastic enterprise theme is about enterprises that adapt […] Read more »