With multi-operating system management software, the problems that slow Itanium adoption today "all of a sudden don't become barriers anymore," he said. Have they got a portfolio consolidation nightmare on their hands?
Few European technology players truly enjoy a global presence, so there is plenty of room for consolidation as companies combine to achieve scale economies. Greater availability of broadband has boosted the adoption of Voice over IP (VoIP) services...
However, one of the main drivers behind grid - sharing resources across an enterprise - could also prove to be its undoing, the report suggests, as various departments will seek to shun the responsibility of footing the bill for the technology.
A quarter of enterprises are already using software as a service, with another 10 per cent piloting or planning to pilot it - citing application availability and reliability, and rapid deployment as the main drivers to adoption.
The benchmarking report says companies are taking three distinct approaches to SOA adoption. The high costs of migrating to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can eat up 40 per cent of an organisation's IT budget, according to a new report by...
Other transformational techs not far behind web 2.0 on the hype cycle are cloud computing, virtual worlds and service-oriented architecture (SOA) - which the analyst reckons are all within two to five years of mainstream adoption.
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