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Cutting your coat and tightening your belt: Cliff Mills, NCC Research (Nov 2009)
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Technology marches on, the economy continues to provide a challenging environment and IT departments need to become
leaner and more efficient.
It’s not an easy time in most business sectors, and many companies are looking to the IT function to cut costs and play a more
strategic role in the business. The available options have never been greater – and IT management need to clearly understand
the range of possibilities to provide a fully optimised technology infrastructure.
It’s reassuring, then, that our latest user survey finds 95% of organisations have an IT infrastructure management strategy in
place, providing a framework for planning their future development.
What’s more, infrastructure issues are obviously being taken seriously, with 68% of companies reviewing the decisions at
board level. However, this still leaves 27% where this is not the case.
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Virtual cloud cover: Una Du Noyer, Capgemini (June 2010)
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Infrastructure technologies are evolving at a faster rate than ever before. Among them, cloud
computing and virtualisation are two key developments that are radically changing the way IT
services are delivered, how they are managed, and the security and billing models that
underpin them.
Most senior IT people face the same challenges today: how to provide a massive increase in
capacity for X, Y or Z service at very short notice? How to keep a diverse and heterogeneous
infrastructure from running out of control? How to address the backlog of urgent priorities? How
to address skills shortages and security issues? How to cope with the new budget pressures
generated by the credit crunch?
Cloud computing may be the answer to these questions for some organisations and for some
services.
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