During a recent trip to Silicon Valley there was barely a meeting where the topic of hybrid IT didn’t come up and yet, almost every time, what was being described as hybrid IT was different … so, what’s going on? Many a Sunday afternoon of my youth I spent trackside north of the Sydney suburb of Hornsby, watching the steam trains pull up a grade as they headed south into the metropolitan area. These tracks had little to do with race cars, mind you, but watching the mighty locally designed and manufactured 38 Class locomotive as well as the even more famous (among Australians at least) Garrett locomotive, with its distinctive configuration where a separate water tank was located ahead of the boilers and engines in a detached carriage. Back in those heady days I actually took a trip from Sydney’s Centr...
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