Private equity funding provided our enterprise with the flexibility to experiment without the added pressure of bolstering the bottom line immediately.
If the issue of vendor lock-in is not carefully managed, the cloud could represent a step backward in terms of its impact on flexibility and choice in the enterprise.
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The traditional IT model requires system engineering that binds most software to the hardware and does not provide an enterprise suite of functionality or allow for increased flexibility and a governed lifecycle of services.
The improvements in chips and heterogeneous computing will make it possible to run the applications ubiquitous to any enterprise, giving businesses the great economic benefits, flexibility and scalability that are possible with the cloud.
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But in order to compete with them, enterprise IT executives will have to follow suit by reducing their costs and maximizing their flexibility.
As a result of this flexibility and additional capabilities direct attached storage (DAS) used to build big enterprise storage systems that serve applications from big science to cloud computing will be able to offer faster performance and data protection and allowing faster data processing and content generation.
On the transactional side of enterprise processes we expect companies to be attracted to crowdsourcing because of cost savings but also because of flexibility too.
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