It looking forward
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This document discusses IT priorities and plans for the future. It covers several topics including important organizational priorities for IT, emerging technologies like virtualization and cloud computing, challenges with server consolidation, and how to plan an effective IT strategy going forward. The document provides an overview of key issues facing IT and considerations for taking a strategic approach to technology decisions and infrastructure management.
It looking forward
- 1. www.freeformdynamics.comIT Looking ForwardPriorities and plansJon Collins, Managing DirectorFreeform Dynamics Ltdjon@freeformdynamics.comApril 2010
- 2. AgendaToday’s prioritiesWhat’s technology bringing?Taking things from here
- 3. Organisational priorities for ITWhich of the following indicators do you see as important to your organization?
- 4. Meanwhile, some things continue to go up...What business drivers are having the most impact on how you architect and operate your server estate?
- 5. What’s technology bringing? Whirlwind tour…Infrastructure stuffVirtualisation of servers, storage, desktops...Convergence through 10 Gig EthernetService-based delivery and cloudUser-facing stuffCollaboration and information sharingUnified communications and VoIPInformation management and BI
- 6. The two-edged sword of virtualisationHave you faced any of the following challenges with your server consolidation activities?
- 7. VIRTUALISED SERVERSERVER 1SERVER 2SERVER 3WORKLOAD 1WORKLOAD 2WORKLOAD 3INTERFACESTORAGE ASTORAGE BSTORAGE CSTORAGE ASTORAGE BSTORAGE CAdopters starting to appreciate architectural impact
- 8. Network convergence is means to end
- 9. Meanwhile, what about Cloud?
- 10. Why Now? Convergence vs CollisionPhysicsInternetDynamic ITBoundary ErosionEco-nomicsGlobal-isationSourcingSOA
- 11. Early days for information managementHow well are your needs actually being met in the following areas?
- 12. Limited uptake of ‘real’ UC today...But‘aggressive’ adopters seeing significant benefits
- 13. And of course…
- 14. Taking things from here: familiar trade-offsBUSINESSREQUIREMENTS
- 15. INCREASED EFFECTIVENESSINCREASED EFFICIENCYIT asdifferentiatorIT as foundationMaking a real difference to businessMaking everything “just work”IT as bottleneckEfficiency before effectiveness
- 16. What to leave out?Average outsourcing index by Senior Management view of IT
- 17. GoodImproveMaintainFit with service requirementsBadTransformKillNon-differentiatingDifferentiatingBusiness value of applicationRationalise to get breathing space
- 18. Where to start? Beer mat ITGovernance is not a dirty word – it’s about making informed, open decisionsKnow what you haveKnow what “they” doKnow what they wantKnow what is possibleKnow what you are doingKnow the constraints and risksReduce waste, look for valueManagement is key
- 19. www.freeformdynamics.comIT Looking ForwardPriorities and plansJon Collins, Managing DirectorFreeform Dynamics Ltdjon@freeformdynamics.comApril 2010
Editor's Notes
- #11: As a starting point, let’s think about how IT has evolved over the past few decades. Behind the ‘waves’ of progress – client-server, the Internet and so on, IT has been evolving along a number of parallel tracks. Not least we have:Dynamic IT, or the ability to flex IT service delivery based on end-user demand. This has existed in a number of guises, most recently encapsulated by terms such as ‘on-demand’ or ‘adaptive’ IT. However such capabilities were envisaged back in the hey day of the mainframe, and remain relevant now. The latest catalyst towards dynamic IT has to be virtualisation, though it is early days yet.The Internet. Again long in gestation, we now have a situation where every compute device on the planet has the ability to connect to every other using a standards-based backbone. There are still some things to be ironed out, notably bandwidth in general, and mobile access in particular. But few would disagree today with its importance.SOA. Three decades have passed since software luminaries first postulated the principles of modular design, which was taken forward through object orientation to yield the standards-based architectures we recognise today as being ‘service-oriented’. SOA is a work in progress, not least because it is difficult to get right, but it is part and parcel of how applications are written today.Sourcing. From the computer bureaux of the Seventies, through the outsourcing wave of the Nineties to the ideas behind Software as a Service we see today, IT procurement has been a balancing act between doing something in-house, or sourcing skills, services or MIPs externally. To paraphrase an analyst colleague, what we are seeing today is not so much about the convergence of these four tracks, but more their collision. There is a number of reasons – the laws of physics yield new innovations which drive the industry forward; the economics of both IT and business cause a focus on both efficiency and effectiveness; both businesses and purveyors of services are being drawn form a now-global pool; and the boundaries between organisations, their suppliers, subcontractors and customers are becoming increasingly blurred. All of these factors conspire to give us a vision of the inevitable – that organisations large and small will indeed have the wherewithal to source an increasing variety of services from third parties, using the Internet as a backbone. Less inevitable is that teh vision will be achieved quickly, or without pain as both providers and consumers learn the most workable approaches.
- #14: Are we really any better off when we respond to technology hype?