Nine Hot Consumer Technologies You Can't Ignore
Like it or not, these much-discussed technologies are going to have a significant impact on your IT department.
Video Everywhere
The ultimate time and bandwidth suck
In case you didn't notice, everyone's a television producer these days. Despite the best efforts of some big media producers and broadcasters to stamp out the fire, there's no way this trend is ever going away. Cameras, storage and bandwidth are too inexpensive (particularly if you use the bandwidth and storage you have at work!). Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame. Every other consumer product company seems to have a "create the greatest advertisement ever" contest going on. Online media outlets are begging for user-submitted video. And there's always someone's pet doing some incredible new trick that is just waiting to be shot on DV tape and distributed to half the world's population in minutes.
Why You Should Care: These moving images aren't just sucking up more of your bandwidth every day; they're sucking up the attention of your marketing department, your training department and—depending on your industry—your CEO. If you haven't been asked to support streaming video inside your company yet, you will. Ohhhhh yes. You will.
PS: Go on. Click the video below. You know you want to.
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