IT Infrastructure in Emerging Markets: Arguing for an End-to-End Perspective

  • Authors:
  • Ajay Gupta;Parthasarathy Ranganathan;Prashant Sarin;Mehul Shah

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett Packard Labs;Hewlett Packard Labs;Hewlett Packard Labs;Hewlett Packard Labs

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Emerging economies are a rapidly growing market for computing products and IT solutions. Although several groups from industry and academia are focusing their research on these new markets, most concentrate primarily on front-end solutions that target client systems that can potentially reach high-volume end-consumers. It is increasingly important that research in this area also consider an end-to-end perspective. Emerging economies offer several challenges unique to the IT infrastructure, namely the delivery fabric and the enterprise backbone, which are needed to sustain large-scale pervasive computing. These challenges present corresponding opportunities for high-impact innovation.This article is part of a special issue on Emerging Economies.