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The New Enterprise Data Center
04/14/2008
By Rich Lechner, Vice President, Enterprise Systems, IBM
Introduction

You can’t make the world move slower. Or change where markets are headed. Or hold back new technologies while focusing on day-to-day IT operational issues. But there is something you can do, right now. To react faster. To be more efficient. To provide innovation for your business and your customers. A new vision. A better approach. The new enterprise data center – starts now.

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The fact is, not all of today’s IT infrastructures were built to support the explosive growth in compute capacity and information. Many data centers today have become highly distributed and somewhat fragmented. As a result – they are limited in their ability to change quickly and support the integration of new types of technologies or to easily scale to power the business as needed.

So how do you find the time and resources to drive the innovation required to keep your company competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace? How can you react to business needs faster?

Since today’s distributed approach to the enterprise data center is challenged to keep up in today’s fast-paced business environment, a new centralized IT approach is needed. We must rethink IT service delivery to help move beyond today’s operational challenges to a new data center model that is more efficient, service oriented and responsive to business needs. With new economics. Rapid service delivery. And one that can provide tighter alignment with business goals.

My vision for the new enterprise data center is an evolutionary model that helps reset the economics of IT and can dramatically improve operational efficiency. It also can help reduce and control rising costs and improve provisioning speed and data center security and resiliency—at any scale. It will allow you to be highly responsive to any user need. And it aligns technology and business—giving you the freedom and the tools you need to innovate—and stay ahead of the competition.

Though our experience with thousands of client engagements, we have developed an architected approach based on best practices and proven implementation patterns and blueprints. And our own data center transformation provides first-hand proof that embracing this new approach simply makes good business sense.

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