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title: "As Computing Tasks Evolve, Infrastructure Must Adapt"
date: "2014-06-11"
categories:
- "industry-coverage"
- "blogs"
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The litany of computing buzzwords has been repeated so often that we’ve almost glazed over: mobile, social, cloud, crowd, big data, analytics. After a while they almost lose their meaning.
Taken together, though, they describe the evolution of computing from its most recent incarnation — single user, sitting at a desk, typing on a keyboard, watching a screen, local machine doing all the work — to a much more amorphous activity that involves a whole new set of systems, relationships, and actions.