On October 8, 2009
EMC and Riding the Decentralization Wave
I was reading about EMC subsidiary Iomega announcing an NAS appliance for home and SMB users, when I had a sudden realization about an industry trend. For years, companies from Cisco and EMC to SAP have tried moving toward selling to SMB companies. I used to think that it was the simple reaction to having no room to keep heavy growth in a largely sated enterprise market, but now I wonder whether executives are reacting almost unconsciously to a broad change in industry dynamics. The more I look at how things are developing in high tech, the more I keep thinking that massive decentralization of operations and a reshaping of the business landscape. Over time, if operations move to clouds,…
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