RE: "Welcome to the new IT Crisis"

make IT as easy to use and run as the phone system
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Anyone seen a telco switch room lately??  Talk about bailing wire and bubble
gum.

jch

-----Original Message-----
From: John Myers - MM [mailto:jmyersmm@sbsusa.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:46 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: "Welcome to the new IT Crisis"


This article (below) from ZDNet Tech Update Today helps me realize what the
"rest" of the IT world is going through ... and why I love my iSeries!

How many of you spend 70% of your it budget on datacenter management?

John

How to avoid the new IT crisis

With nearly 70 percent of enterprise IT budgets going toward
data center management, Marc Andreessen says the IT world must
reinvent itself or suffer the consequences. His portrait of the
Fortune 500 data center isn't pretty: "Servers and applications
are glued together using piece-parts, bailing wire, and chewing
gum. Armies of systems administrators manually do their voodoo
to keep the applications they support up and running." Andreessen
claims the solution is automation and utility computing that will
make IT as easy to use and run as the phone system. One caveat:
Andreesson is CEO of Opsware, a provider of data center automation
solutions. But that doesn't mean he's not right.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-976655.html

John Myers
IBM Certified Specialist - IBM iSeries Technical Solutions Design
IBM Certified Specialist - Advisor for e-Business
Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
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