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make IT as easy to use and run as the phone system --------------------------- 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. 17 S. Franklin Turnpike, Ramsey, NJ 07446 USA E-mail: mailto:jmyers@sbsusa.com Phone: +1 (201) EASY 400 x131 Web: http://www.sbsusa.com Fax: +1 (201) 327-6984 Free Sports League Management - Powered by AS/400 http://www.ScoreBook.com Get and route intelligence from your IBM AS/400 web site - WebSurvey/400 http://www.WebSurvey400.com Systems supporting the distribution operations of Motor Vehicle manufacturers http://www.VehicleSystem.com _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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