How IT will be blown to bits
December 3, 2012
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.
The season of predictions is upon us, with market intelligence firm IDC last week releasing its report "IDC Predictions 2013: Competing on the 3rd Platform." What exactly is the "3rd platform"? It’s an IDC amalgam of mobile computing, cloud services, social networking, and big data analytics technologies — which tend to be procured outside the usual enterprise IT channels. According to the report, these technologies will together drive approximately 90 percent of the growth in IT spending from 2013 through 2020.
A fascinating aspect of this prediction crystalized for me during a conversation with IDC Senior Vice President Frank Gens, who described how cloud services are starting to dig deep into vertical industry areas — an accelerating trend that portends dramatic fragmentation of IT…
"We’re going to see an explosion in the growth of PaaS [platform as a service]," Gens told me. "Not Azure or Force.com or other horizontal ones, but the creation of industry-specific application platforms run by people in those industries." Immediately I thought about the open source boomlet in vertical applications I saw a couple of years ago, where enterprise developers were collaborating across company boundaries to share code under open source licenses. A PaaS variation on that general idea seems like a natural extension…
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