Links that I have found interesting for February 20th:
- Why life sciences companies need an end-to-end business service management solution « New Thinking – End-to-end business service management can help ease these woes. It maps end-to-end dependencies between infrastructure components, applications and the business processes they support. HP and BearingPoint have developed a Business Service Management solution for life sciences companies that provides IT organizations and application owners with real-time monitoring dashboards for applications and business processes.
- Infrastructure 2.0 – Anyone who values a career in IT operations or network administration should right now get trained on core Infrastructure 2.0 technologies such as VMware Virtual Infrastructure, Cisco’s Nexus switches (and upcoming Unified Computing offerings), and network specific tools, like the Infoblox Network Services Suite.
There is an old saying in IT circles: Enterprise IT has done a brilliant job of automating everything but IT. We are finally getting around to getting the job done. The result, as in most automation trends in industrialization, is the displacement of some roles and increased opportunity for others. The role of the clerk was eliminated from most business functions in this way, replaced in part by the more strategic knowledge worker.
The tactical IT administrator is about to become another excellent example of the effects of automation – thanks in large part to Infrastructure 2.0.