As part of my career, I am in the process of deploying robotic solutions from Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and UiPath. These technologies represent exciting opportunities to reduce mundane workloads but I can easily see down road with Artificial intelligence and machine learning integration that it will start to displace the human workforce. Why pay some one $50k annually with benefits and inconsistent work behavior, when you can subscribe to a software robot for $5k a year that never calls out, has a bad day, makes a human error, and doesn't need benefits? A software robot today can easily do something in 1 minute that it takes a human 15 minutes to do and will only get even better with time. It's a new economic reality that we are facing and without taxing the robots, we are going to need things like a universal income. I am not hear to debate the politics of that, but I can see it being necessary.
Kinderstart, realizing their website sucks, announces a lawsuit against Google for a detrimental impact to their website traffic. Website activity jumps 3000% on the news, mainly from a nerd news site reporting the lawsuit. Slashdot is credited with a 120% increase in revenue for nerds that now know how to raise their kids.
With fault tolerance, you still have a single point of failure with the chassis and one that can not be eliminated though mitigated. Clustering gives two seperate units that can be on the opposite side of the datacenter, or even across town with the Metro Ethernet infrastructures available today. As costly as it may seem, if you want to save your arse, you are better off clustering then having to explain why your company lost $2 million for the downtime when it could have been mitigated with a 7k
As an individual in the field. You may want to start in other areas of IT, but make an emphasis on Security. I started out as a System Admin on NT4 boxes, then moved to Networking, which led me down the path to Firewalls, VPNS, and IDS. Because I have such a wide area of knowledge, I am usually the go to person in the department I currently work for, and thus in front of management quite often as well...
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As part of my career, I am in the process of deploying robotic solutions from Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and UiPath. These technologies represent exciting opportunities to reduce mundane workloads but I can easily see down road with Artificial intelligence and machine learning integration that it will start to displace the human workforce. Why pay some one $50k annually with benefits and inconsistent work behavior, when you can subscribe to a software robot for $5k a year that never calls out, has a bad day, makes a human error, and doesn't need benefits? A software robot today can easily do something in 1 minute that it takes a human 15 minutes to do and will only get even better with time. It's a new economic reality that we are facing and without taxing the robots, we are going to need things like a universal income. I am not hear to debate the politics of that, but I can see it being necessary.
Well, if you increase the stakes a little more, http://www.realdoll.com/.
African or European?
Kinderstart, realizing their website sucks, announces a lawsuit against Google for a detrimental impact to their website traffic. Website activity jumps 3000% on the news, mainly from a nerd news site reporting the lawsuit. Slashdot is credited with a 120% increase in revenue for nerds that now know how to raise their kids.
Aarrgh! Pass me the Excedrin for me Migraine! Arrrgh!
With fault tolerance, you still have a single point of failure with the chassis and one that can not be eliminated though mitigated. Clustering gives two seperate units that can be on the opposite side of the datacenter, or even across town with the Metro Ethernet infrastructures available today. As costly as it may seem, if you want to save your arse, you are better off clustering then having to explain why your company lost $2 million for the downtime when it could have been mitigated with a 7k
47.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
It's amazing how slashdot can loose its creditability, if it ever had any, by posting all the bullshit april fools jokes in 1 day.
As an individual in the field. You may want to start in other areas of IT, but make an emphasis on Security. I started out as a System Admin on NT4 boxes, then moved to Networking, which led me down the path to Firewalls, VPNS, and IDS. Because I have such a wide area of knowledge, I am usually the go to person in the department I currently work for, and thus in front of management quite often as well...
Doesn't Shadow TV, http://www.shadowtv.com/index.html, already do this very thing?
Pay to play...it's the wave of the future.