IT and Telecommunication
Background / Solutions / References
Business
The financial crisis increased the cost pressure on the IT. Goal is: do more with less, quick gains, short ROI.
Thus the current topics are…
- Consolidation thru virtualisation: Less Hardware, less space, less administration. Virtualisation is ‚green IT‘ too: less power consumption, less cooling.
- Cloud Computing, SaaS: Outsourcing to the internet / Services from the internet. This topic creates security issues of course.
- Linux is more and more accepted on servers even for critical applications.
- Outsourcing is still current when thinking about being flexible and cost effective.
- Mobile Computing: Make mobile workers more productive. Affordable hardware is sufficiently available now: Laptops, Netbooks, Smartphones
The next step will be ‘Unified Communications’.
Consumer
The internet becomes an essential part of the daily life of human beings, for the younger as well as the older generation. “How did that actually go before?” is a typical reflexion.
- Social networks are standard for the younger and becoming more important among the older. The covered need: enlarge your contact. Twitter covers another communication need – public chatting.
- With the advanced integration of the Internet in daily life, mobile Internet access is increasingly demanded. The laptop gradually replaces the desktop, Wifi is becoming standard, the discussions about security have become silent, the wish for mobility is stronger.
- The mobile phone becomes the all-rounder – with phone functionality among others. To extend your mobile phone limit free via apps meets two basic needs: Variety and individualism. GPS on the heldhelt allows location based services. Wifi and internet flatrates allow intensive use of internet based services. Apple is still the driver of these developments but with Google the competition will become harder. And how will the other players react?
