And of course what we are seeing is not new. We have seen this phenomenonbefore as wave after wave of technology introductions came upon us, each bringing its own set of opportunities to deliver on bigger and better business outcomes. As has been clear over the past 10-15 years though, the pace is increasing. Just consider that Facebook, Twitter, iPhones weren’t there a mere decade ago. Each wave brings new technologies– new applications, new computing platforms, new development languages. And of course, it is not just the new that IT needs to deal with though when we think of the disruptions. Almost every technology on this slide is still around in your data centers – mainframes, SAP ERP, Oracle databases, plus we have to bring in the new such as Hadoop, VMWare, cloud services like Amazon Web Services.In addition to the technologies, one pervasive theme is the explosion in data collected and required across all of these different waves. This is not just the volume but in the sheer number of connection points between the different information sources. In many ways, the information is the most important aspect in today’s world and the technologies becoming the medium whereby we collect or disseminate insights or insight driven interactions.
