What does the post-recession IT world look like? More media will drive the need for more bandwidth, and a demand for Windows 7 upgrades and corporate use of personal smartphones will shape new priorities for IT.  (read more…)

The Hub Commentary ___

Think like a start-up sums up what I was thinking as I read this article.  Good long and short side views in the IT news these days.  This is a great thing, there is activity again and feels like budgets are loosening for the right spirit.

Here’s what I mean by short and long sided.  Cost savings by reducing infrastructure – To the Cloud!  Hidden costs to monitor, manage, support, secure and protect.  Rarely is it cheaper to outsource unless you are a hideously inefficient organization.  However, right source is the right approach.  Another example are all the new technologies mentioned in the article.  I’m sure there is an expectation for performance, availability, information accessibility and many platforms and by the way we are starting with mobile now.  Again, that pesky back-end monitoring, managing, supporting,  securing, protecting and measuring.

The consumer market drives business requirements and thus IT.  The introduction of every new technology to the consumer market should immediately be thought of as entering the enterprise and thus evaluated for it’s application and potential value-add or not.  Business is still ahead and IT is still out of synch reacting.

2011 is going to be a tipping point of a year for alignment of IT to become a service enabling organization with agility.  The IT manager that begins thinking like a start-up to meet the requirements, embracing new technologies and building management in from the get go will be the winner in the long run.

Is your IT an Operating Commodity   or   Contributing Necessity?

Michele