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· Leading Edge Versus Bleeding Edge Enterprises are always looking for an edge to use against the competition, and information technology was created initially and specifically to be that edge. Decades later, computing in the various forms is the foundation of the modern corporation, and companies are still looking for new ways of gaining an advantage. More times than not, that means being out there on the leading edge with new hardware and software technologies, or innovative ways of creating software.

Other hot areas now includes the acceleration of applications by shifting way from disk storage to flash storage,(and now cloud storage My thoughts) which embedded in systems in various levels inside of the machines. And in other cases, companies are shifting to in-memory database to real-time queries against production data, often obviating the need and high cost of data warehouse.

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to making applications go faster and gaining a competitive edge. The important thing to us is to find out what you are doing, not what the vendors tells us you should be doing . Is the payoff from the technology measuring up to the hype you're hearing? You know better than they do. So we need you to tell us what technologies you are using for competitive advantage and what risks you are willing to take for the reward you either gained or hope gain.

www.hpcwire.com/2014/04/10/leading-edge-versus-bleeding-edge.