Due to the increasing complexity of government work this dedicated group of Ninja consultants is taking on some of the thorniest issues facing their clients in the hopes of generating out-of-the-box solutions with real outcomes.
It is timely and important for two reasons: first, the interest and investment in Shariah-compliant finance in the West continues to grow, and second, the fragile state of our financial system of late is due to the catastrophic impact of toxic financial products designed as highly sophisticated black box solutions to undisclosed market risk.
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And yes, it will mean there will be strong demand for cloud solutions like Box.net.
Small-scale solutions such as the LNG In A Box system may encourage the transition of long-haul trucks from diesel fuel to LNG.
If we're at a point where you can trust Google, Amazon or Box.net, then why not leverage these solutions and focus on business-critical technologies rather than maintenance?
Such high-tech solutions are creating the 2.0 version of the suggestion box.
While incumbent software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and IBM provide vertical solutions that include an end to end services for developers, Box is challenging them by offering what cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie calls an open system where developers can choose from a variety of providers and plug in to any of them.
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Then again, Box.net certainly made the right choice to focus on providing secure storage solutions to the enterprise market.
Across the world, we have seen the power of the ballot box and the desire of people to break through artificial barriers and work to implement solutions to common challenges.
Some exceptions to this are in the super dense space where PCI Express and ethernet are virtually on the chip, or solutions from guys like Calxeda, which minimizes power and eliminates the need for any comms box at the top of the rack.
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