IBM PureApplication System - Is this the paradigm shift that triggers off a worldwide IT infrastructure engineering revolution?

I have to confess that for a couple of years, I felt that JEE technology was maturing and the pace of changes for WAS slowed down. Of course, there has been mobile computing and worklight, but I was more concerned with the core IT infrastructure technology, especially WebSphere Application Server. However, IBM PureApplication System caught my attention and got me excited. I started to ask myself: "Will IBM PureApplication System start a fundamental paradigm shift? Will IBM PureApplication System trigger off a powerful IT infrastructure revolution. Before we can attempt the answer, let's have a look at what PureApplication does to WebSphere engineering processes.

• Most if not all time consuming pre-installation tasks will disappear
• Provisioning and the first application deployment take hours rather than days if not weeks
• IT labour costs will be substantially reduced when everything starts to run well
• Self-service is finally possible and well supported
• It accommodates main visualization technologies, various MW products, and operating systems
• Patterns help with design and build consistency

The skills level for the MW increases in the areas of

• visualization
• automation of ongoing deployment
• automation of ongoing configuration
• troubleshooting in a more complex MW environment - other than the traditional application server software - now you have VMWare and PureApplication system software to work on, among others