This week’s Aged Care Technology Advisory Service looks ta the Top 10 Technologies shaping the future

For all those that have not seen it, see http://www.cio.com.au/slideshow/431201/pictures_10_technologies_shaping_future_it/?image=1 for CIO magazines InfoWorld’s top 10 technologies that are shaping the future.

Of particular interest is that Adobe is stopping flash, advancements in high speed level 1 storage, and client based hypervisors that provide enormous flexibility and provisioning for BYOD environments. The tools and ability to offer BYOD in almost all environments is becoming a reality.

It certainly is becoming the new world order driven by software applications, where infrastructure is becoming more and more of a commodity. Network appliances are being replaced by virtual appliances, whether they be PBX, firewalls, WAN optimisation etc etc devices. We have seen that these trends towards virtualised network appliances have proven improvements in price performance of around 60%.

The above link is a good summary which you can read in 5 minutes.

Silver-Peak WAN optimisation is a good example of a network appliance with proven price performance improvements of 60%. For more information, have a look at http://www.youtube.com/silverpeaksystems