Banks form Interoperable Data Center Alliance

banks consort on interoperable data centers

Great article - the banks are getting on the interoperability band wagon and looking at standardizing the cloud environment.  We might move out of the "Proprietary Age" of IT and into the standardized data world.  This seems like an enternity, but if you realize that electronic computer sytsems are less than 75 years old, it is amazing progresss.  The short term and long term gains of stndardardized data sets combined with cloud computing may make local server farms and proprietary approaches as quaint as an early factory running all of machines off belts from a centrally powered shaft!