Wednesday 25 November 2015

IBM Report: Infrastructure Matters

Many of our problems with technology don’t come from the products themselves but from getting technologies from different companies or even different divisions within a company to cooperate. We have endless meetings on this or that technology and what new wonders it offers, but we spend a surprisingly small amount of time talking about the bigger issue of getting these increasingly complex systems to play well with others.

Apparently IBM picked up on this and commissioned a study on the state of infrastructure.

It isn’t a very happy state.

Infrastructure Has Never Been More Important

At the core of this report is the concept that infrastructure has never been more important than it is today. I’ve been working in this space since the late 1980s, and I could argue it really hasn’t been less important either. It’s just that things have become increasingly complex and the tools to get technology to interoperate have always lagged the need for them. This is why services have been critical to this effort and why the IBM Institute for Business Value is so focused on this topic today. For the full article click here 



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