- by Alena Hitzemann, Associate Web Editor
Wow. My colleague Tom Parish tweeted the following today:
tparish Facebook Chat: 1 Billion Messages Sent Per Day (fascinating, I had no idea of the volume, huge) http://ff.im/-43xgA
One billion messages per day. That's so much communication. Makes me wonder what our volume here at BMC is, on MS Communicator, or Skype, or even quick pings over email... or all of the above. Clearly the nature of conversation is changing... how is the IT world going to keep up? How do we evolve with it?
(Speaking of Twitter and Tom, I highly recommend following him @tparish. He's a savvy guy. And while you're at it, follow me @IT4GenY. Just getting started but intend to make it worth your while.)
The postings in this blog are my own and don't necessarily represent BMC's opinion or position.
With the staggering growth of social interaction it would be interesting to witness the scalability of infrastucture.
Cloud computing, SAS and other cool technologies have got our expectations soaring high - what used to be a concept of a nice feature to have yesterday is fast becoming commonplace today. I'm sure Google and the other guys have nice scalability plans in place otherwise we'd have to encounter the "oops Server error, please try again after some time." messages marring our Starship social flight experience too often.
Like all times the techie guys swear by technology mutation and code genetics to continuously create the next tech phoenix - may our chatting always live on!