Enterprise IT has gone through several waves of evolution since the birth of computing. The computing platform has evolved from mainframe computing to minicomputers, shifted to client/server computing, and finally moved to Internet computing in the cloud era.
Each transition saw computing evolve in the following ways:
- The cost of computing fell by orders of magnitude, enabling businesses to deploy more compute resources to handle almost every business process.
- The primary computing location has continued to change
- The network has continued to grow in importance with each successive compute transition.
- Core network infrastructure has expanded.
Read this white paper to learn more about the need for location-independent computing.