Although there is room for discussion around the rate of evolution of IT landscapes in an in-memory computing oriented environment, one thing is clear, and that is alignment of current and future IT investment should be aligned with a continued momentum in mind.

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"It's been a long time since we have had this rate of change -- it probably hasn't happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago, " he wrote.

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General-purpose computing capacity grew at an annual rate of 58%.

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Third, we have made important investments in our core computing infrastructure that provides us greater scalability and increases the rate of iteration on core technologies, like algorithmic search, as much as tenfold.

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