By Rich Lechner, Vice President, Enterprise Systems, IBM
Introduction
You cant 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.
The fact is, not all of todays 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 todays distributed approach to the enterprise data center is challenged
to keep up in todays fast-paced business environment, a new centralized
IT approach is needed. We must rethink IT service delivery to help move beyond
todays 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 resiliencyat any scale. It will allow you
to be highly responsive to any user need. And it aligns technology and businessgiving
you the freedom and the tools you need to innovateand 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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