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Back to the Future: Getting back to integrated systems
Back when computers were a shiny new concept, the hardware and software were tightly linked together. This tight coupling was mandatory because of the costs and technical immaturity of computing. The most powerful computers in the 1970s had less computing power than a smartphone has today. Over time as systems became more powerful and less expensive vendors began decoupling
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Can IBM Build a Strong Cloud Partner Ecosystem?
Despite all of the hand wringing surrounding Amazon.com’s service outages last week, it is clear to me that cloud computing is dramatically changing the delivery models of computing forever. We simply will not return to a model where organizations assume that they will consume primarily their own data center resources. The traditional data center certainly isn’t going away but its
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Judith Hurwitz is an author, speaker and business technology consultant with decades of experience. 
