9 | | IT world has reached a turning point in its evolution: whether we refer to shifting to parallel computing or to the emerging cloud computing model, it becomes obvious we hit the ceiling of performance when using just one super fast and incredibly powerful resource. Hardware is still making progress, but it cannot do everything by itself for the mainstream – or at least, not any more. If we want to continue the trend of rapidly improving information technology, we have to think in terms of 'the power of the group'. |