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Why it is time to adopt the cloud now: IDC

SAN JOSE, California - Frontman IDC, Senior Vice-President and Chief Analyst of the Frank people, sees a significant fork in the road of TI in 2011, similar to the one that happened 25 years ago.

In 1986, PC and desktop computers have been 5 years and starting to make their way in daily use in dedicated corporate networks and home offices, replacing typewriters and text processing. The Internet to connect all them was still a decade away, but the groundwork was already be discarded for it.

"In 1986, mainframes and terminals was the standard." Coming up was a new class of device of the end user (PC), and new types of networks and computing platforms, led by the radically expanded PC users and uses, "people said to a full-house audience of approximately 1 200 15 March in his keynote address at the 46th IDC Directions Conference here at the Convention Center of" San Jose.

"Computer companies watched what was going on, made some strategic decisions and chose a direction." As you can imagine, some of them try what was going on properly, and some do not. Now, 25 years later, we are still at the crossroads, and take the correct path is also crucial that he was. »

People (photo), of course, was referring to traditional client-server computing vs. new generation it based on the software application and services via the Internet, otherwise known as cloud computing.

People and IDC are convinced that the time is the time that peripheral and components IT managers, system providers and service specialists must adopt the new model of combination of cloud systems it private/public/hybrid, mobile devices and services at the request of prepare their products and services for buyers with these preferences third platform.

The clear implication here: in 2011, it is either the cloud in a way or the highway.

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