The Internet of Things will save the PC Posted on : May 06 - 2015

One of the best sentences to come out of Michael Dell’s mouth: “The PC isn’t dead.”

It’s really easy to get caught up in the mobile craze right now and fixate on smartphones and other devices apart from the PC. With the cloud starting to kill off server space in offices, some might be forgiven for starting to think that the PC is next on the chopping block.

“We believe the PC becomes increasingly strategic as a highly distributed, powerful, local computing resource: the hub of the Internet of Things,” Dell said in his keynote speech at Dell World 2014.

I really like this idea of the Internet of Things. There’s been a tendency in our industry to really separate types of technology. You’ve got your PC workstations, you’ve got your servers, you’ve got your mobile network… all these disparate elements of a business infrastructure. And different people tout expertise with different elements.

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But the technology world is heading towards the idea of one great big connected network, or as Dell’s put it, “The Internet of Things.” And MSPs are going to have to stop focusing on just individual elements and provide that connection that customers want. We must manage ALL computing. View more