Consumerprise

Consumerprise - the definition of converging market requirements from two historically seperate market segments.
Enteprise markets have historically been a main driver of IT infrastructure requirements including high availability, performance, scalability and so on. All of which to support the business of large organizations.
With the arrival of massive user adoption of applications that run over the web (web 2.0, web 3.0) and the amount of user generated data, the requirements of the IT infrastructure to support the demands of not only terabytes of information AND the millions if not billions of usrs accessing the content.. This has flipped the IT requirements now driven from end user application adoption.
Convergence of requirements from the consumer and the enterprise user is evident especially in cloud infrastructure. The differenece is the "must have" versus "would be nice to have" requirement. For example key infrastructure elements required for CLOUD COMPUTING are - Self-healing, SLA-driven, Multi-tenancy, Service-oriented, Virtualized, Linearly Scalable. AND for Storage in a Cloud key requirements are External storage virtualization, Virtual volumes & wide striping, QOS, Intelligent Tiered Storage, Thin provisioning, Read-only snapshots, Internal storage virtualization, Logical Partitions, Heterogeneous data protection. NOT THE MAJORITY OF THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE ALREADY IN SOME CASES AVAILABLE OR OR EVOLVING IN THE ENTERPRISE.

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