The IT Avengers - Driving Tomorrow’s Information Technology Platform

This Knowledge Sharing article, recognized in the Elite category in the 2014 Knowledge Sharing competition, focuses on what will be the next IT platform of the future. Many believe cloud is that platform. Knowledge Sharing author Paul Brant posits that there is much more.

Paul cites an interconnection of converging forces is happening, building upon and transforming user behavior while creating new business opportunities. In the interconnection of these forces—social, mobile, cloud, Big Data—information is the context for delivering enhanced social and mobile experiences. In an engaging style that readers may recognize from his past Knowledge Sharing articles, Paul details how:

• Mobile devices are becoming the de facto platform for effective social networking and new ways of doing our work every day.

• Social links people to their work and each other in new and unexpected ways.

• Without cloud computing, social interactions would have no place to happen at scale, mobile access would be unable to connect to a wide variety of data and functions, and information still would be stuck inside internal systems.

• In the realm of big data, the trend today is information or data is stored everywhere. Social, mobile, cloud, and the security fabric make information accessible, shareable, and consumable by anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Paul’s Knowledge Sharing article describes how data centers are going soft and why this is pivotal in transforming the data center into a true cloud delivery solution, offering best practices that align with the most important goal: creating the next-generation data center, which addresses the business challenges of today and tomorrow through business and technology transformation.

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