The Cloud and the Changing Face of Legacy Infrastructure
Following up on last week's announcement of Microsoft and Oracle "getting in bed together" after years of bickering, Oracle announced the following day Oracle announced another "marriage" with Salesforce.com. To most "old timers" these are seismic events in the IT world having lived through the many squabbles these tech giants have gotten into but in the end the stark realities of the changing face of the technology landscape's customer sunk in; "old foes have come together because they have both been wrong-footed by the speed at which business customers have shunned their costly packaged software and maintenance contracts in favor of cloud-delivered services." The combined power of disruptive technologies with customers having a say (and meaning) is forcing "accepted" standards to be revisited and turned upside down. Business is changing at a vertiginous speed and IT Departments long known for being slow to change due to the "technology" constraints of amalgamating disparate platforms, loyal (often to a fault) to what "works" as to not rock stable platforms, and responding to their internal and external clients by being very slow to adapt and change can no longer continue down this path. The Cloud has arrived and it is here to stay. It is now a matter of not only embracing it, but being at the forefront when doing so. At Host.net we take great pride in pushing the envelope to ensure our clients have the latest in cloud technology. Our new 4cNxGn™ Smart Cloud Architecture represents a groundbreaking framework that solidifies our position as providers of both IaaS and PaaS solutions in the marketplace.
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