InformationWeek 500 Trends: Web 2.0, Globalization, Virtualization, And More -... - The Diigo Meta page

• 16 Sep 08
  

  Gary Edwards
  • 77% of InformationWeek 500 companies have deployed server virtualization widely, up from just 46% a year ago. Virtualization's often a key tool for data center consolidation, and 50% of top 100 companies consolidated data centers this year, compared with 28% of the remaining 400 companies.

    • IMHO, server virtualization for the sake of data consolidation is hosted-cloud computing for the "behind the firewall" innerWeb. Most RiA-WebStack technologies will work inside and out. For many it's an ROI questions. For many others it's a data-document security/reliability question. The technologies though are simillar if not the same.
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  • WAN optimization/application acceleration also shot up
  • The third obvious trend is wireless e-mail

    • whoops, left my comments in the page section rather than attached to this WiFi wireless eMail section.
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  • encrypted customer records
  • Two technologies, RFID and grid computing, don't slot well into either of the two categories described here--they're neither on the cusp of a big year yet nor have they broken through to wide adoption
  • "make business processes more efficient,"

    • ... "Make business processes more efficient" : 51%
      ...... Lower costs : 39%
      ........... home grown IT products and services : 39%
      ................ Create new business model / revenue stream : 12%
      ................... Going green : 6%
      
      Interesting breakdown but it shouldn't come as a surprise. The focus is on making existing business processes more efficient as opposed to a "rip out and replace" re engineering. This is also why SharePoint is so successful! The Microsoft WebStack adds collaborative - web value to existing business systems instead of re inventing. It's the integration with MSOffice-Outlook-Access desktop productivity environment that rules 95% of business "client/server" systems that is the secret to SharePoint's success. Microsoft is deep inside existing enterprise systems and has a complete plan for adding web value as well as providing for the great transiton from "client/server" to client/ WebStack-Cloud-RiA /server models. Like SaaS, SOA and Web 2.0
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  Gary Edwards on 2008-09-16
  IMHO, server virtualization for the sake of data consolidation is hosted-cloud computing for the "behind the firewall" innerWeb. Most RiA-WebStack technologies will work inside and out. For many it's an ROI questions. For many others it's a data-document security/reliability question. The technologies though are simillar if not the same.
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  Gary Edwards on 2008-09-16
  whoops, left my comments in the page section rather than attached to this WiFi wireless eMail section.
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  Gary Edwards on 2008-09-16
  ... "Make business processes more efficient" : 51%
  ...... Lower costs : 39%
  ........... home grown IT products and services : 39%
  ................ Create new business model / revenue stream : 12%
  ................... Going green : 6%
  
  Interesting breakdown but it shouldn't come as a surprise. The focus is on making existing business processes more efficient as opposed to a "rip out and replace" re engineering. This is also why SharePoint is so successful! The Microsoft WebStack adds collaborative - web value to existing business systems instead of re inventing. It's the integration with MSOffice-Outlook-Access desktop productivity environment that rules 95% of business "client/server" systems that is the secret to SharePoint's success. Microsoft is deep inside existing enterprise systems and has a complete plan for adding web value as well as providing for the great transiton from "client/server" to client/ WebStack-Cloud-RiA /server models. Like SaaS, SOA and Web 2.0

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  Gary Edwards on 2008-09-16
  I wonder if document collaboration will follow the wireless eMail trend? If wireless eMail drives the deployment of WiFi routers and computer devices (iPhone, BlackBerry, desktops) what will follow eMail through the WiFi pipeline? RiA Web Applications will deliver both data, documents and streaming media. Would it be safe to say that RiA was held back by the build out of the WiFi pipeline? That the transition from legacy "client/server" systems to RiA-WebStack-Cloud systems was stalled by the lack of a thick WiFi pipeline? Worth considering.

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