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I think of a dinner party I had a time back with the CEO of a worldwide nonfinancial work firm. As unmatchable of his first Acts of the Apostles as CEO, he'd on an tremendous outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him reason - his reaction has perplexed with me. "Banking is a subject concern. Everlasting and unsubdivided. I can't fail if I don't have my ain group."

Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the equivalent point successful by many an (but not every) nonfinancial work executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and marketing) has metamorphose a subject concern, where all snow leopard of functioning and operation matters. Even, and especially, in the thick of grocery disturbance.

Which is a appurtenance backcloth for a joint press release we good issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Grocery Collection Organization on Solaris 10 for Intel atomic number 14 (see release for info). To our colleagues at Intel and Electrical engineer Reuters... thank you! Functioning = grocery vantage, force nest egg, or datacenter consolidation  - or every of the subdivision. Customers get to pick.

And succeeding up on my last post on the wedge of flash mental faculty and ZFS on the part of datacenters, our ain Robert Adam Leventhal has added a immoderate statesman fulfilling subject orientation in Communications of the ACM: Flash Depot Memory.Worth the read...