I was recently engaged in a conversation with a practice leader for a mobile community. It was clear during our brief discussion that unlike other technologies, "mobile" meant different things to different people. Whether your focus is on customer-facing or employee-facing applications, or a combination of both, it is clear that mobile is a hot topic in both the enterprise and consumer domains.
This trend was reflected in the feedback received and documented in IBM's 2011 Global CIO Study. 74% of CIOs identified mobility solutions as an important elementy of their strategy over the next 3-5 years.
This is not a surprise when one considers recent trends. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.
In the last quarter of 2011, over 360,000 iOS devices were activated per day. There are over 500,000 Android device activations per day.
What is driving the exponential growth in mobile? I believe it is a combination of advances in device capabilities, particularly microprocessor and battery technology. These have made the mobile a viable computing platform. And with these advances came applications. The emmergence of Apple's AppStore and Google's Play have resulted in an explosive growth of the mobile platform as a revenue earner for the device manufacturers and service providers.
In April 2013, IBM announced a new category of IT systems, Expert Integrated Systems. With PureSystems, IBM sees an opportunity to radically redefine the economics of IT, incorporating lessons learnt and best practices from Mobile computing.
As with your mobile device, PureSystems ships from the IBM factory fully racked, integrated and configured ready for use. Once the system is powered on, a simple setup wizard enables users to connect the system to their network and deploy pre-loaded applications. There is also an AppStore, the PureSystems Center, where users can search and find applications optimized for PureSystems. Applications certified for PureSystems can be downloaded from the AppStore and deployed on PureSystems. All the knowledge and expertise required to deploy and lifecycle manage the application is defined in Application.
This is not a surprise when one considers recent trends. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.
In the last quarter of 2011, over 360,000 iOS devices were activated per day. There are over 500,000 Android device activations per day.
What is driving the exponential growth in mobile? I believe it is a combination of advances in device capabilities, particularly microprocessor and battery technology. These have made the mobile a viable computing platform. And with these advances came applications. The emmergence of Apple's AppStore and Google's Play have resulted in an explosive growth of the mobile platform as a revenue earner for the device manufacturers and service providers.
In April 2013, IBM announced a new category of IT systems, Expert Integrated Systems. With PureSystems, IBM sees an opportunity to radically redefine the economics of IT, incorporating lessons learnt and best practices from Mobile computing.
As with your mobile device, PureSystems ships from the IBM factory fully racked, integrated and configured ready for use. Once the system is powered on, a simple setup wizard enables users to connect the system to their network and deploy pre-loaded applications. There is also an AppStore, the PureSystems Center, where users can search and find applications optimized for PureSystems. Applications certified for PureSystems can be downloaded from the AppStore and deployed on PureSystems. All the knowledge and expertise required to deploy and lifecycle manage the application is defined in Application.
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