"As long as the need for software is high and the complexity of software projects increases, we'll continue to grow, " he says.
Critical parts are typed up by hand and, despite a wealth of testing tools that claim to catch bugs, the complexity of software makes security flaws and errors nearly unavoidable and increasingly common.
But banks are reluctant to overhaul this legacy software owing to the cost and complexity involved.
But the software sector was forced to develop solutions to handling complexity, because of the massive failures of traditional management approaches to dealing with large complex software systems.
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The largest, and most fully developed, body of management expertise for dealing with complexity lies elsewhere, in software development with the practices known variously as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Extreme Programming.
And in yet another layer of IP complexity, server owners often incorporate software provided by third-party developers, and in some cases also hire people to write code to add customized features to the server.
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Enterprises and service providers are demanding more programmability and therefore flatter networking architectures that decouple the software from the hardware so that it decreases physical complexity and allows networks to scale out through virtualization.
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What hit me more than the software features though, which have been criticized for their complexity, are two things.
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Consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by orders of magnitude.
Nor are there enough computers and software tripwires and human agents to deal with this level of complexity.
It covers a wide range of occupations: software engineers, shopkeepers, teachers and all the manifestations of economic complexity.
But in the business world, the shift to the cloud has been complicated greatly by the incumbency of traditional on-premises systems and infrastructure and applications, plus all the myriad layers of complexity and cost that were required to string together disparate software and servers and networks and middleware and so on.
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And because of the program's complexity, even the best produce their share of bug-ridden software.
The company says it can save customers money and reduce complexity by integrating functions that until now required 4 or 5 separate pieces of software.
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Most of the operators have at least a dozen different software platforms in the market, which slows down the application environment shift through cost and complexity.
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The complexity will only increase as more business is automated and shifted onto the Internet and more software production is assigned to India, Russia and China.
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