The “third platform” of computing means a massive increase in scale

Grazed from CiteWorld. Author: Matt Rosoff.

Toward the end of last year, IDC coined the term "third platform" to describe the current wave of technological advances shaping the workplace, including mobile devices, cloud computing, social collaboration, and data analytics. IDC analyst and CITE Conference speaker Joe Pucciarelli explains that these are more than just the hot buzzwords of the moment. To get the most of any of these technologies, you have to deploy them in conjunction with one another.

"Companies are typically combining a sales force app to include mobility based on a new cloud computing platform. They’re using a big data analytics platform, but the data may be drawn from a social community they’re operating. By combining technologies together, you get the real power."…

The main benefit of these technologies when deployed together is a orders-of-magnitude increase in scale — in numbers of applications, in compute power, in addressable customers…

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