Preparing for a new internet with technology's rapid pace of change

In the technology world, the pace of change is startlingly fast, says Bob Savage, vice president and managing director of Dell EMC Centres of Excellence EMEA.

Photo credit: The first Dell EMC VEX Robotics tournament of the 2016/17 season, held at the Bishopstown GAA Club and hosted by Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh. Some 130 secondary school pupils from 13 schools in Cork, Limerick and Waterford took part. The the national finals in Cork see students compete with their self-built robots completing a number of challenging tasks. The Dell EMC VEX Robotics initiative promotes STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) learning. Picture: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

“Only a decade ago, mobile internet was a novelty and mostly impractical; now, sites like Facebook report that 90% of its one billion daily active users access the site from a mobile device. In 2006, broadband penetration in Ireland was just over 8%; in 2016, that figure was more than 83%, and that’s excluding mobile networks capable of similar speeds.”