Inflection Points Ahead

Forbes.com (Oct 26 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Every so often, technology reaches an inflection point where something else takes over, either because of physical limits of a particular technology, new developments in adjacent markets or because of a significantly changed pricing model. The minicomputer took over from the mainframe in the 1980s, and the PC has arguably displaced both of them in the decades since. In the past couple of years, virtualization has changed the business model for buying commodity servers, and cloud computing is changing the economics of the data center. (Read Full Article)

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