Chris Poelker’s Blog

A colleauge of mine brought this little gem to my attention, and in the interest of sharing, I thought ya’ll would also find it interesting.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/02/it_trends_2009_fforecast/

Quick Excerpt:

“Just about every major company funds a junkyard of application systems and technologies attached to them. Few have had the incentive to fix this, much to the consternation of corporate IT departments. Remember the IT cost justification for that ERP system - all those systems that it would replace, but somehow never did. And recognize the fact that this residue of junkyard legacy counts for a big part of the IT budget, and generates lots of operational inefficiency.

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In order to achieve greater efficiencies for IT investments, most IT models leverage the Information Technology Information Library (ITIL) standards model when implementing solutions within the organization. Although standardization may provide some substantial operational benefits, the reliance on traditional methodologies for critical data services are not meeting the more stringent financial and budgetary objectives we are trying to achieve in a down market. The optimized data services model is a shift away from traditional approaches, embraces recent advancements in server and storage virtualization, including data de-duplication, continuous data protection, WAN optimization, and thin provisioning to enable a paradigm shift in the datacenter to a more cost effective and optimized approach to IT.  

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