10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever

• Dual and quad processors are just the beginning.
• Data center consolidation is Step One.
• Lower-cost high-performance computing makes it feasible to do more research that in turn drives innovation.
• The downstream affects of that

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Virtualization

• Today we think about virtualization in terms of operating systems.
• Soon virtualization will change processes associated with disaster recovery, application distribution and security.
• Tomorrow everything in IT will be managed at a high

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Voice over IP

• Today this technology is largely seen as a convenient approach to lowering telecommunication costs.
• Tomorrow every application will come embedded with voice over IP capabilities.
• This in turn will lead to significant productivity

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – XML Web Services

• A revolution in middleware that has been 10 years in the making.
• The foundation for a new approach to applications that is based on a service-oriented architecture.
• Tomorrow these ‘services’ will be combined almost at will to power

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Information Management

• Today storage is inherently inefficient, resulting in abysmal utilization rates at a time when the amount of data that needs to be stored is exploding.
• New storage technologies and XML Web services will literally turn applications into contai

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Automated Compliance

• Today compliance regulations are a dream come true for auditors.
• We already have the technology to record everything that happens within the enterprise but not from mainstream vendors. We will see this capability embedded into all major produ

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Security Threat Management

• We’re losing the war right now, but we are on the cusp of being able to identify threats in the wild before the attacks get launched.
• That information will then be used to identify and isolate affected systems and then automatically distri

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Smart Networks

• Application acceleration techniques will become baked into the network.
• Ethernet will become the new system bus, allowing us to distribute processor and storage components.
• Embedded systems will leverage smart networks and RFID to ext

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Mesh Networks

• Constant high-bandwidth availability.
• Your applications follow you rather than you having to call them.
• These systems leverage smart networks to automatically identify least costly and most efficient network access.

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Blended Computing Models

• Major advances in display and graphics technology are under development.
• Prototype of 5-inch screens with HDTV quality built using nanotechnology.
• New embedded processors give handhelds the power of the PC.
• Software-as-a-servi

10 Things That Will Change the Enterprise Forever – Conclusions

• We’re already moving to the concept of Web 3.0.
• Enterprise infrastructure is quietly going through a renaissance period.
• The impact on business processes is only beginning to be felt.
• There will be more downstream innovation i

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