p2p comes of age
p2p news / p2pnet: It seems the corporate world is finally realizing something you’ve known for years: p2p is the distribution and communications system for the digital 21st century.
Under the What-else-is-new? heading, peer-to-peer technology will be widely used by businesses within the next 36 months, says Organisation and Technology Research (OTR) in a Computing story.
“The group has pinpointed the increasing adoption of the technology in a report published last week identifying IT trends that will have an impact over the next few years,” it says, going on:
“OTR believes peer-to-peer tools will move from the consumer sector and into the corporate arena. It predicts that the tools will be used to redistribute files and data on a network, rather than individual systems downloading direct from central servers.”
The story has OTR’s David Rance saying, “Peer-to-peer began as a way to download music, but now companies are starting to realise they can use it to download business files quicker. The driving factor is the sheer volume of data and the distribution of the various feeds. People want access to more and different streams of information, and the streams themselves are getting big.”
Distribution of software will be one of the main uses of peer-to-peer, says Rance, adding, “When the task is: ‘I need to get this big bit of software out to thousands of machines in my company or to all of my customers’, this is the technique you need, otherwise your own servers would melt down under the pressure.”
Er, Yes.
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Also See:
Computing – Peer-to-peer turns corporate, July 13, 2006
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