Rise of cloud computing liberates companies

June 14, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from New Zealand Herald.  Author: Adam Gifford.

Chief information officers who have spent years filling up their data centres are now clearing out space so they can do new things.  That’s the picture Jim Thompson, chief engineer and vice-president for engineering and supply chain at technology vendor Unisys, brought to last week’s ninth annual CIO Summit.

He talked on the rise of the digital business and how that is transforming the data centre.  Data centres, which are like fridges full of computers, have been changing physically anyway under the effect of Moore’s Law, which describes the steady rate at which silicon chips become smaller, more powerful and cheaper…


"The fridges are getting smaller. They’re more like wine cellars now," he says from his home base in Pittsburgh…

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