Event Driven Management and Opportunistic Computing
by
Charlie Bess
A while back I wrote a blog entry on Opportunistic Computing, what an organization can do with cloud computing that they wouldn't have done before. I just read an entry on the Smart Enough Systems blog that looks at some similar issues but from the perspective of proactive use of IT to increase the value of the business. He wrote that the characteristics of an organization using Event Driven Management are:
- Negative Response Time
- Simulation
- Best Next Action
- Predictive supply chain
- Explicit Decisions
- Event-based and process-centric
These are also the kind of compute-intensive activities that would be difficult to perform without being able to tap into a pool of relatively unlimited computing resources.
We're both saying that the kinds of computing that will take latency out and increase value are here today, just not widely implemented.
