The 3rd Platform technologies – the industry’s emerging platform for growth and innovation built on the technology pillars of mobile computing, cloud services, big data and analytics, and social networking – is disrupting the way business is conducted across verticals.

Efficient and reliable hardware infrastructure that meets the challenges of supporting mobile technology, the use of cloud computing and Big Data, has lately become even more important than previously as companies, (especially those that have a great impact on the economy) turn to IT solutions based on cloud computing.

Over 40% of the respondents, surveyed in 2013 in Poland by IDC, plan to introduce private cloud computing services. At this point, a challenge that many people face while managing private clouds involves the reduction of Total Cost of Ownership and licensing costs, while increasing the efficiency of IT infrastructure and process automation.

Various platforms including clusters of x86 servers, converged solutions that use different types of servers, and mainframe servers are currently tested to find the optimal solution.

Cloud used patterns

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