{"id":44034,"date":"2013-12-18T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44034"},"modified":"2013-12-18T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T14:36:20","slug":"idc-predicts-2014-will-be-a-year-of-escalation-consolidation-and-innovation-as-the-transition-to-its-3rd-platform-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/12\/18\/idc-predicts-2014-will-be-a-year-of-escalation-consolidation-and-innovation-as-the-transition-to-its-3rd-platform-accelerates\/","title":{"rendered":"IDC predicts 2014 will be a year of escalation, consolidation, and innovation as the transition to IT&#8217;s &#8220;3rd platform&#8221; accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24472713\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IDC predicts 2014 will be a year of escalation, consolidation, and innovation as the transition to IT&#8217;s &#8220;3rd platform&#8221; accelerates<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from idc.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts<\/em> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>(emphasis DSC):<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The 3rd Platform will deliver the next generation of competitive advantage apps and services that will significantly disrupt market leaders in virtually every industry.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Worldwide IT spending will grow 5% year over year to $2.1 trillion in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Emerging markets will return to double-digit growth of 10%, driving nearly $740 billion or 35% of worldwide IT revenues<\/li>\n<li>Within the 3rd Platform, value will start to migrate &#8220;up the stack&#8221;, from infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to platform as a service (PaaS) and from generic PaaS to data-optimized PaaS.<\/li>\n<li>Cloud spending, including cloud services and the technology to enable these services, will surge by 25% in 2014, reaching over $100 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technologyfirst.org\/magazine-articles\/124-may-2013\/843-mark-neistat-us-signal-company.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What is the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> platform and how will it affect business?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; by Mark Neistat US Signal Company<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts<\/em> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>(emphasis DSC):<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Simply stated, the <i>3rd Platform<\/i> is the next phase of the IT revolution.<\/strong> <\/span>The first platform was the mainframe computer. The second was Personal Computers (PC) which dominated the IT landscape from 1985 to 2005. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The <i>3<sup>rd<\/sup> Platform<\/i> is being built on mobile computing, social networking, cloud services, and Big Data analytics technologies.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDC predicts 2014 will be a year of escalation, consolidation, and innovation as the transition to IT&#8217;s &#8220;3rd platform&#8221; accelerates &#8212; from idc.com Excerpts (emphasis DSC): The 3rd Platform will deliver the next generation of competitive advantage apps and services that will significantly disrupt market leaders in virtually every industry. 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