What does the "Rise of the Appliance" mean for financial services?

Posted by on Sep 28, 2010

Bob Evans of Information Week published an article a couple days ago on the Rise of the Appliance, highlighting how a plethora of technology companies are using optimized hardware/software offerings to “change the game” (his words) in enterprise computing. He summarized the appliance plans of each of the big vendors (Oracle, IBM, Teradata, SAP, HP, Microsoft, EMC), and then...
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Back to the future: the return of appliance-based computing

Posted by on Apr 8, 2010

There was a good article on the Enterprise Systems website this week about the increase in popularity of purpose-built appliances on many fronts across the datacenter. The points it makes will be familiar to readers of this blog: IT organizations like the model for the same performance and security reasons vendors do, but also because deployment is a breeze and the initial and on-going costs of...
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