of the energy market, consumers will be free to subscribe to a private supplier or to continue with the current gas and electricity suppplier . AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET Software is at a crossroads.
What does this mean in practice for IT resource consumption? It means the cost to run these applications will go up too. This is a predicament that keeps, at 2% per year. Maybe that statistic makes us feel bad, or maybe it makes us feel like we are in good company,” proposed Zaitsev in a private online press & analyst briefing session this month.
If software and its data workload is not like lightbulbs , but it is like aviation , then it is also not like music memorabilia i.e. you don’t necessarily need to collect every album cover, t-shirt and poster. Some data is more important and valuable than others.“The first opportunity is around cloud and provisioning,” said Zaitsev. “Organizations need to ask themselves whether they use cloud in the right way in the first place.
“The second opportunity is around data,” commented Zaitsev. “In the world of databases, indexing and query design used to be treated as critical skills because the amount of resources available to us was so limited. Getting a couple of percent improvement in query performance was a big deal because it would equate to real-world costs saved or faster delivery on results. Today, those skills are less common. We simply throw more cloud resources at a problem.