INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
It is now time to think BIG.
About the MACRO picture.
How the massive growth in INFRASTRUCTURE continues unabated and how it will impact on you and me.
Our lives are slowly adapting/evolving because of the availability of more and more BANDWIDTH, faster PROCESSING speeds and the increasing ubiquity of WIRELESS networks – both GSM and WIFI.
How are we changing the way we behave?
You just need to look at two markers –
1.) MOBILE phone growth especially in emerging markets ( there will be almost 5bn mobile phone users by the end of 2010) and
2.) growth in SOCIAL media especially the likes of FACEBOOK (400m users and growing ) which takes up an inordinate amount of our spare and working time.
People are increasingly connected in an ALWAYS ON ALWAYS CONNECTED WORLD. The curse of the CRACKBERRY has now been extended to all SMART phone users. We have become slaves to technology.
Almost every human interaction whether work or play is increasingly reliant upon some kind of interface with the Internet or IT network. Whether working on a computer, making a phone call, travelling in a car or public transport, shopping, watching a movie, attending a sports event, you are either knowingly or unknowingly (e.g. CCTV) interfacing with an IP network.
And it will only get worse as the new technological infrastructure continues to rollout. Fiber optic networks and the processing technologies allowing for those networks to carry even more data, broadband networks, the proliferation of IP connected devices that will eventually morph into the so called ‘ Internet of Things ‘ are all examples of the ongoing relentless growth in IT infrastructure.
Both business and personal users will increasingly depend on getting there IT services from the ‘Cloud’ in the form of Software as a Service as the Service Levels achieved from the Cloud match (and increasingly exceed ) those of in-house proprietary infrastructure. Clearly security is and will continue to be a concern but the technological race is on for solutions that address the security requirements demanded by the Cloud.
We can either embrace this new reality or behave as Luddites and stick to the old order. The world is changing so fast and information technology is leading that change. It is incumbent upon those of us who are custodians of the infrastructure and the services provided on it to carry out our responsibility to inform and educate those who we want to be our users / our customers.
About the MACRO picture.
How the massive growth in INFRASTRUCTURE continues unabated and how it will impact on you and me.
Our lives are slowly adapting/evolving because of the availability of more and more BANDWIDTH, faster PROCESSING speeds and the increasing ubiquity of WIRELESS networks – both GSM and WIFI.
How are we changing the way we behave?
You just need to look at two markers –
1.) MOBILE phone growth especially in emerging markets ( there will be almost 5bn mobile phone users by the end of 2010) and
2.) growth in SOCIAL media especially the likes of FACEBOOK (400m users and growing ) which takes up an inordinate amount of our spare and working time.
People are increasingly connected in an ALWAYS ON ALWAYS CONNECTED WORLD. The curse of the CRACKBERRY has now been extended to all SMART phone users. We have become slaves to technology.
Almost every human interaction whether work or play is increasingly reliant upon some kind of interface with the Internet or IT network. Whether working on a computer, making a phone call, travelling in a car or public transport, shopping, watching a movie, attending a sports event, you are either knowingly or unknowingly (e.g. CCTV) interfacing with an IP network.
And it will only get worse as the new technological infrastructure continues to rollout. Fiber optic networks and the processing technologies allowing for those networks to carry even more data, broadband networks, the proliferation of IP connected devices that will eventually morph into the so called ‘ Internet of Things ‘ are all examples of the ongoing relentless growth in IT infrastructure.
Both business and personal users will increasingly depend on getting there IT services from the ‘Cloud’ in the form of Software as a Service as the Service Levels achieved from the Cloud match (and increasingly exceed ) those of in-house proprietary infrastructure. Clearly security is and will continue to be a concern but the technological race is on for solutions that address the security requirements demanded by the Cloud.
We can either embrace this new reality or behave as Luddites and stick to the old order. The world is changing so fast and information technology is leading that change. It is incumbent upon those of us who are custodians of the infrastructure and the services provided on it to carry out our responsibility to inform and educate those who we want to be our users / our customers.
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