Are you running an IT infrastructure with or without virtualization? It's a question IT managers in 2016 no longer ask them selves as all are confronted with virtualisation on different levels. Be it a mainframe, JAVA, storage virtualisation and auto tiering, network virtualisation or just a Vmware virtual machine, virtualization has been around for ages, with different names but all with the same purpose: optimizing resource utilisation.

Consolidation, THE Cloud, ... are terminologies that heavily rely on virtualisation techniques : virtual hardware, virtual applications, virtual companies, ...

Consolidation as well as moving to the cloud (private, public, ...), are too often seen as solutions to increase efficiency of poorly defined internal procedures and information (knowledge) needs.

With the introduction of mobile devices, also the application level has to cope with an increasing diversity. We have to go mobile! BYOD. Many C-level managers think that moving to the cloud, consolidating IT will improve their bottom lines because they think they reduce IT cost. But is the overal gain real?


We often see that IT (resource utilisation) is the main driver. IT is seen and managed as a Cost Center and is forced to drive its costs down. However if it were treated as part of the value chain, increasing the IT budget might be a better option because it would become evident that it supports a higher output or lower cost somewhere else in the value chain. IT is a support service - a support for value creation - ; not support for a department as such but for the value that is created in that department.

But to often, the link between IT and Added Value has become the unknown factor.

Timely delivery of the information (data) at the right place to secure or increase the creation of value should be the main driver.

 

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