donderdag 10 november 2011

The Future of IT

IT systems and how we use them is changing rapidly. In one of my previous blogs, I already referred to the consumerization of IT. Each day new ‘gadgets’ appear on the market. Take for example this ‘android’ watch  which is an extension of your mail and calendar or the ‘intelligent’ nest  thermostat  which combines smart intelligence with design.  All of these, If well thought out and engineered,  are made to make our life’s more comfortable and enjoyable.
This is one of the facets cloud computing can bring to your ‘business’ IT. Instead of static, difficult to manage and complex system which demand a lot of operational costs and effort, cloud computing can bring you an agile and intelligent Business  solution, if it is well thought and engineered.
As I already posted in previous blogs, the key to a well thought and engineered Cloud computing solution is not only a bunch of servers in one or more datacenters but an intelligent system which communicates and integrates with all components of a cloud solution and automates the business and operational processes which will make our work more comfortable and enjoyable.
At Thinfactory we try to build such systems, even as we are a small company compared to others we can differentiate by our design and intelligence, just as the ‘nest’ thermostat, which differentiates by looking different towards a solution, addresses current topics such as ‘energy saving’ and simplifies the control of it.
By using clever design and intelligent systems, each day, we deliver IT systems to customers through our partners without any human intervention from our engineers. This is a dream come true…
This opens new perspectives for us and our customers, which can profit from more agile computing systems, simplified IT, more efficient and at lower cost.
As the economic climate in Europe suffers from one crisis to another these solutions will help us to differentiate and make more clever and intelligent solutions which will support us in a new way of working and living increasing quality life for all of us.