"We use more technology at home than we do at work," Blessing says. "Mobile smart phones and touch pads are surpassing other personal or office computing hardware sales," plus "the consumerization of the technology" is changing our attitudes about how we use technology and our expectations of how it should work; and high-speed internet allows for ubiquitous computing"”anyplace, anytime"”and fosters the attitude that technology should be a utility or service. "We turn on a switch and the light is there."

This is the real catalyst for the global enterprise: the high performance, anytime anywhere model that can support high-performance big-data analytics and also high-performance shop floor control"”now from the cloud.

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