Infrastructure Management: Driving Increased Business Value Through The Strategic Use Of-Aarkstore Enterprise

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Infrastructure Management: Driving Increased Business Value Through The Strategic Use Of-Aarkstore Enterprise

The demand for increased flexibility from an organisation’s IT capability is creating new challenges for IT infrastructure management. Much of this new demand is coming from the changing nature of operating in an increasingly interconnected global market, where an organisation’s performance is influenced by events that are mostly outside its direct control.

The consequence of this new business environment is that organisational success is now a factor of the speed with which it responds to market conditions; and therefore, by implication, the speed with which it can adapt to any new environment.

The role of technology is adding to these challenges by creating tensions between the structures that exist with organisations today, as well as creating tensions within the IT departmental structure.

These forces are demonstrating the need for IT to reconsider its role in the organisation, and just as importantly, for the organisation to consider how it wants to embrace technology, and what role technology has in its core activities. In other words is IT a strategic capability or a merely a support function?

KEY FINDINGS

Understanding the role of IT and its strategic significance to the organisation represents the single biggest hurdle the CIO must overcome.

The explosion in end-user responsibility, and in the associated increased business use of technology, demonstrates that the role of IT is changing fast.

The question of how the use of computing resources is funded and deployed across an organisation’s many different operational business units represents one highly contentious issue that using chargeback can resolve.

A new Run The Business (RTB) cost model that demonstrates IT’s value contribution is needed as technology makes the concept of asset ownership obsolete.

Butler Group believes that a new Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed (RACI) model for IT process and procedures is needed to ensure new technology does not create new problems for the management of any IT infrastructure.

The transformational impact of virtualisation extends beyond the IT department, and requires structural and process change supported by a comprehensive infrastructure management capability.

One of the main functions of an infrastructure management capability is to mitigate the risks of deploying new technologies like virtualisation.

The language used by IT must be aligned and converged with the language of business.

New technologies add complexity and often promise to increase business flexibility; therefore it is important to ensure that any increased IT cost is offset by a greater reduction in business cost.

Holistic management capabilities are required while organisations are in transition between old and new technology stacks.

Being able to manage remote operations securely is fast becoming a necessity as the separation between end users and the data centre increases.

Recognising the barriers to data centre automation is the first step that many organisations must take before they can embark on an automation journey.

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