Technology has always enabled the “factorification” of processes and skills for both users and suppliers of IT. The success of early computing solutions rested in replacing hundreds and thousands of Bob Cratchett-like professionals with systems that required few, if any, sick days and no vacations. Then businesses discovered they needed to hire hundreds or thousands of technical gurus to care for and feed their ever-more complicated data center “factories” by continually deploying, optimizing, managing and maintaining new and existing systems.
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VCE's Digital Factory Vision
Posted by: Charles King September 11, 2013 05:00 AMTechnology has always enabled the “factorification” of processes and skills for both users and suppliers of IT. The success of early computing solutions rested in replacing hundreds and thousands of Bob Cratchett-like professionals with systems that required few, if any, sick days and no vacations. Then businesses discovered they needed to hire hundreds or thousands of technical gurus to care for and feed their ever-more complicated data center “factories” by continually deploying, optimizing, managing and maintaining new and existing systems.