Twitter is off to a roaring start this week, closing 70% higher than its IPO price on its first day of trading. This bodes well for Twitter investors, but it may not do any favors to the traditional technology vendors that have minted billions servicing enterprise IT requirements. After all, while Oracle and other technology incumbents like to boast about how "the top five of five mega banks rely on our technology," in the age of the web giants, the scorecard looks more like "Zero out of all web companies depend upon our technology."
Are we seeing a changing of the technology guard?
Modern Data Infrastructure: Hadoop And Beyond
According to Cowen & Co. analyst Peter Goldmacher, the answer is "Yes." While new technologies like Hadoop in some cases simply sustain legacy technology businesses, there is a whole class of applications enabled by such modern data infrastructure that is beyond the legacy vendors. In true Innovator's Dilemma fashion, they simply make too much money sustaining yesterday's application workloads to be able to invest fully in modern applications. Quoting Goldmacher at length:
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for the first time since being introduced in 2010, the social media network has re-designed their like and share buttons.
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One of the unsung uses of the iPad is as a personal LTE hotspot. It's rather easy to set up the device as a hotspot for a MacBook if you need to work away from Wi-Fi, although you'll need to keep an eye on your data usage. Last year, Anand Lal Shimpi at Anandtech discovered that an LTE iPad 3 could work as a wireless hotspot for 25.28 hours, downloading data at 50 KB/s. Shimpi repeated his test with the new iPad Air and discovered that even despite having a much smaller battery, the iPad Air can run for 24.08 hours as a hotspot at twice the throughput rate (100 KB/s).
The iPad Air battery is quite a bit smaller due to the slim profile of the device -- it's a 32.4 Wh battery compared with the 42.5 Wh battery built into the third-generation iPad. As Shimpi points out, both the A7 system-on-a-chip and the Qualcomm MDM9615M modem in the iPad Air use a 28nm LP process that sips power.
Shimpi's test was to set the iPad Air up as a personal hotspot, using Wi-Fi tethering to connect it to a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. He started the 100 -- For more information read the original article here.
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