RE: "Welcome to the new IT Crisis"

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe it's time to take 30 seconds and post a comment.  I see John did.
Mine's attributed to william mctell.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Myers - MM [mailto:jmyersmm@sbsusa.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:46 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
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