What really drives technology spending and technology change? Sure, network technology has changed enormously over the last fifty years. We’ve gone from a day when a data connection of 4800 bits per second was leading-edge enterprise technology, to one where a four-year-old child would reject it out of hand. The average household has faster broadband available to them than did the headquarters of major corporations back in the 1990s. Technology has driven networking a long way forward, but what drives technology forward? Answer: Wall Street.
