Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Now that's a lot of money

The amount of money being spent on IT infrastructure is absolutely unbelievable. Billions upon billions of dollars in the US alone is spent on hardware, operating systems and enterprise software. This doesn't even take into consideration the whopping 700 billion (as of the book date) on networking services alone... 700 billion.... I didn't think there was that much money in the whole world.. :D

There are so many IT solutions out there for any size business that it would seem impossible there were any companies left that didn't have one. IT companies have also made it very easy to get technology working for you even if you aren't an expert or have experts on staff. Everything can be outsourced. Consulting, implementation, training and support can be part of the package for enterprise software. Web developers and hosters are a dime a dozen. They have even developed on demand computing which is a system where you pay for the computing power you use.

I think my favourite has to be autonomic computing; a computer system that can manage itself. This is not yet a full reality but with the amount of money organizations pay for system crashes there is little wonder we are moving towards this. They’ll be able to heal and defend themselves as well as optimize and configure. It’s almost as if they could think. I wonder what your computer could possibly be thinking of you…….

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