Storage solutions have traditionally retained more of the traditional siloed approach than their server brethren, yet part of the challenge lies in the fundamental difference between how storage is consumed and how applications are.
With a commodity productivity application, the most effective delivery is on the lowest-cost platform or from a provider. The problem is that 20 or 30 years ago, people put everything on mainframes. They wrote it all in code.
It may not be headline grabbing news, but there are useful, valuable and deployable solutions making use of NFC and RFID today - they just have to meet the needs of business realities, not techie dreams.
Apple's iPhone has energised the mobile applications marketplace but sometimes mobile application ideas can be too sophisticated and perhaps a little overcomplicated - surely they just need to make money?
For IT managers looking at cloud deployment, rPath's approach is to embrace as many flavors of the cloud as possible to deal with the fact that what is commonly called the cloud is really a bunch of non-standard environments.
Technology is always shrinking, but that brings new challenges for those trying to handle, use and read from it - is this a solution to small mobile screens?
