1. Bundling Hardware and Software to Do Big Jobs.
- Author
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Lohr, Steve
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DATA libraries , *COMPUTERS , *COMPUTER software , *SMARTPHONES , *COMPUTER industry - Abstract
In data-center computing, the big trend today is to move from building blocks to bundles. Suppliers are offering customers assembled bundles of hardware and software to make it easier and less expensive for customers to cope with the Internet-era surge in data -- an information flood coming from internal databases, but also from Web-based collaboration and smartphone applications, sensors that monitor electrical use, environmental contamination and food shipments, even biological and genetic research. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Published
- 2010