The concept of Just-In-Time manufacturing has been around for decades. More recently we have seen the extension of this concept into the IT infrastructure arena with on-demand or dynamic provisioning. Even with these advances, bringing new data center capacity online has continued to be very time consuming, labor and capital intensive; that is, until the advent of modular data centers several years ago.

From feature phones to smartphones, small tablets to large tablets, desktops to netbooks and ultrabooks, the variety of devices people use to access web content is growing rapidly.  Times have changed from the days of just computers and smartphones. Even then, optimizing content for site visitors was a bit of a challenge. The first initial attempt was building a separate mobile website.

Facebook, Twitter, and now Google +. The social landscape definitely had its share of changes and updates this past year. And the number of businesses logging on and using these social platforms continues to increase. Social media can be a great tool, but you need to know how to use it in order to gain the most value.