For Small Business IT Is A Vital Agenda
The Next Wave
Were now on the verge of a new generation of technology advances in areas such as analytics, cloud computing, 3D printing, hyperscale computing and flash storage. As these new technologies mature, they will have the similar impacts on business and data processing as previous generations of disruptive technology.
The costs will drop by orders of magnitude, workloads can be compacted and distributed, and space and power requirements will dramatically decrease. The business model impacts of the 3D printing and solid-state drive (SSD) performance examples are similar to those of the other next-wave technologies in which costs plunge by 90 percent while performance could exceed 100x current levels.
Continued Growth
Executives have a responsibility to do more than just “do more for less.” The technology landscape continues to change greatly and theres no sign of this slowing down. Systems will shrink in size, as will the power and waste consumed by increasing system workloads. This isnt to say overall power and system usage wont go up. They may indeed, because businesses need grow.
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Leasing Contracts: Not All Are Equal
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Know Your IT Total Cost Of Ownership And Its ROI
