Search Sites Services ITcareers Product Finder Investment opportunities in the year ahead Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan may have declared that U.S. business growth has slowed to zero, but when I look at the year ahead, I find a number of bright spots for venture investment. When George Gilder, who has become something of a Nostradamus to the technology industry, declared 'The End of Storage' in a recent issue of his newsletter, IT managers may have raised an eyebrow. In reality, what is ending is the way storage has been perceived and managed to date. An investor's perspective on the year ahead Building and improving today's Internet infrastructure will be the dominant investment theme this year. In a kind of 'Back to the Future' movement, what used to be called outsourcing of applications in the old mainframe world is now called netsourcing.
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