An industry and technology point of view (POV) that describes the transient nature of the convergence of histroically two seperate market segments and users. Specifically the convergence of Enteprise and Consumer requirements. Example: The demand for high bandwidth, high quality graphic representation used to live only in the high end business, unlike today where multi-media, immediate access is a basic requirement for many consumers. Now the consumer is driving the technological requirements only before driven by corporate requirements.
Consumerprise - Consumerprise - the definition of converging market requirements from two historically separate market segments. Enterprise markets have historically been a main driver of IT infrastructure requirements including high availability, performance, scalability and so on. All of which to support the business of large organizations. With the arrival of massive user adoption of applications that run over the web (web 2.0, web 3.0) and the amount of user generated data, the requirements of the IT infrastructure to support the demands of not only terabytes of information AND the millions if not billions of users accessing the content.. This has flipped the IT requirements now driven from end user application adoption.
Convergence of requirements from the consumer and the enterprise user is evident especially in cloud infrastructure. The difference is the "must have" versus "would be nice to have" requirement. For example key infrastructure elements required for CLOUD COMPUTING are - Self-healing, SLA-driven, Multi-tenancy, Service-oriented, Virtualized, Linearly Scalable. AND for Storage in a Cloud key requirements are External storage virtualization, Virtual volumes & wide striping, QOS, Intelligent Tiered Storage, Thin provisioning, Read-only snapshots, Internal storage virtualization, Logical Partitions, Heterogeneous data protection. NOTE THE MAJORITY OF THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE ALREADY IN SOME CASES AVAILABLE OR EVOLVING IN THE ENTERPRISE.
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