Corporate IT needs to get on board with the "No SQL" movement - huge strategic benefits, paired with major cost savings longer-term
The large web players have championed (out of necessity) creative and highly scalable means of managing structured data (from Google's BigTable to Yahoo's Hadoop). Now things have exploded, with great work from Amazon (Dynamo), Facebook (Cassandra), and others.
The performance stats are staggering.
Now it is time for corporate IT to take up the mantle and start using these innovations in their day to day operations. In a world where lots of effort has already been expended on traditional cost-out efforts (LAMP stack migration, offshoring, etc.), it is nice to have a new page in the IT playbook that has real strategic benefit, beyond its near-term cost savings opportunity.
Here is a quick overview piece to whet your appetite.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9135086
