Okay, so maybe your worst day isn’t as bad as being chased by bloodthirsty zombies or crazed biker gangs, but working in a post-cloud IT environment can sometimes feel like a post-apocalyptic place where everything is turned upside down.
Impatient, demanding customers can make life challenging. When those customers also happen to be your colleagues, the challenge is even greater. For most IT departments, this is their reality.
This year, more enterprises will discover that their private clouds have disappeared. That’s because the definition of what constitutes a real private cloud is narrowing.
Before the cloud, business applications were designed for a client-server environment that was relatively predictable in terms of performance requirements.
So far in our blog series, we’ve talked about building out our Cloud infrastructure using a best-of-breed approach and a single-vendor reference architecture. But what if you wanted a manufacturer to design, build, integrate, and support a reference architecture? Then you’d be talking about a converged infrastructure solution.
The life of a CIO is split between deploying new infrastructure for the business and maintaining what they already have. Deploying new infrastructure includes evaluating, integrating and validating new products.
In the beginning, Cloud solutions were built using a Best-of-Breed approach: mix, match and integrate the best hardware, software and services from the best available vendors. The advantage of this approach today is primarily flexibility.
For IT departments, the age of the “Instant Yes” may soon be upon us. In the near future, IT departments will be able to accommodate any request for IT resources with a quick and complete affirmative using cloud technology.