Data-aware infrastructure: It’s about time!

2015 has been my year of nonstop ranting about the need for us to get out of the IT Stone Age and into the 19th century. Dumb infrastructure will be our demise.
But it’s not too late. There are signs of life starting to appear. All hope is not lost.
A highway is dumb infrastructure. It’s great — it lets us humans make decisions and plot a course to take us where we want to go. Point A to Point B, pull over to relieve ourselves at Rest Stop 6, then continue on to our destinatio