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IBM CTO at Interop: Consumerization of IT is a driving force

By | April 29, 2010, 3:26pm PDT

Summary: At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Kristof Kloeckner, CTO of cloud computing at IBM, talks about the big trends in that arena and what that means for enterprise IT. He says the consumerization of IT is driving the expectations of how users access IT services and will lead to the evolution of IT infrastructure. [video=419022]

At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Kristof Kloeckner, CTO of cloud computing at IBM, talks about the big trends in that arena and what that means for enterprise IT. He says the consumerization of IT is driving the expectations of how users access IT services and will lead to the evolution of IT infrastructure.

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  • RE: IBM CTO at Interop: Consumerization of IT is a driving force
    Agreed, 100%. I've been saying this to some friends in the industry for a while and have received strange looks in response. We are moving toward an environment where a development team needs to know little or nothing about the server architecture that the business runs on.
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