Re:Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money p...
by ChuckMcM on Monday May 13, 2013 @12:41AM
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Of course one could see it as "IT's revenge" after Scott McNealy so famously said it was dead. There is a lot of power to be had by creating an interface for the customer and then keeping everything behind that interface 'obscure'. They have to have that interface to survive, and if they don't know what goes on behind it they have no way of discerning outrageous costs from reasonable ones. The current exemplar seems to be medical costs.
Back in the 60's there was this chamber of secrets called "the Machine Room" which had the "Mainframe" and various and sundry high priests who went in and out, and if you literally played your cards, as in punched cards, right you could get a report on how sales or manufacturing was doing this month.
That got lost when everyone had a PC on their desk, and now some folks are trying to reclaim it :-)
That said the article is still poorly argued. The cost of data management is fairly high. And generally a big chunk of that cost is the cost of specialists who provide business 'continuance' which is code for "makes sure that you can always get your data when you need it, and you can get the answers you need from it in a timely and repeatable fashion." That hasn't changed at all, and whether you have some youngster doing "IT" on the creaky Windows 2000 machine running Back Office or you are using a SaaS company like Salesforce.com, data management is and will continue to be a mission critical part of staying in business.
Back in the 60's there was this chamber of secrets called "the Machine Room" which had the "Mainframe" and various and sundry high priests who went in and out, and if you literally played your cards, as in punched cards, right you could get a report on how sales or manufacturing was doing this month.
That got lost when everyone had a PC on their desk, and now some folks are trying to reclaim it :-)
That said the article is still poorly argued. The cost of data management is fairly high. And generally a big chunk of that cost is the cost of specialists who provide business 'continuance' which is code for "makes sure that you can always get your data when you need it, and you can get the answers you need from it in a timely and repeatable fashion." That hasn't changed at all, and whether you have some youngster doing "IT" on the creaky Windows 2000 machine running Back Office or you are using a SaaS company like Salesforce.com, data management is and will continue to be a mission critical part of staying in business.