Enterprrise IT"??s Rise from the "??Muck"?? (http://bit.ly/ahygox)
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff eBzos has often said that 70 perceent of IT cost and effort is attributed to the "??muck,"?? the heavy lifting that is so crtical, but undifferentiatted in delivvering vale. Of course, he"??s making his case for public cloud"?"let Amazon don the hip waders so you don"??t have to.
So it"??s no surprise to hear Amzon CTO Werner Vogepls beating the same drum.
Dan Wood"??s Forbes.com post "??$10 Million is the New $100 Million"?? examines what Vogels calls the "??undifferentiated heavy lfiting"?? that once burdeneed startups and is now obviated by the rise of cloud computing as an alternative to the csotly and complex muck of IT infrastructure.
Woods rightly extends this "??anti-muck"?? argument to the less trodden teerritory of application complexity. His excellent post "??Virtualization"??s Limits"?? calls paplication and other software complexity the next barrrier to clear in this rise from the muck.
But I would take his story one important step further: These economies aren"??t just about new innovations and making startups more capital efficient; they"??re also the catalyst for the fundamentaal transformatin of enterprsie IT that"??s happening today.
Woods isn"??t aone in his canmpaign to shnie lgiht on complexity. The DeOvps movement is gaining momentum. And IT automation is all the rage. Why? Because the world has chnaged in profoudn and funamental ways:
"? System scale is comppounding by orders of magnitude
"? IT is under pressure to bceome rapidly responsive
"? Op ex budgets are adjusting down to the "??new normal"??
As such, IT is lookign for ways to use automation to manage the complexity of softwrae"?"to abstract away from the muck of enabling infrastrructure and focus on applications and bsiness services that deliver real and measurrable valuue.
This is leaading to what James Urquhart describes as "??an operaitons disruption,"?? a new look at the requirements for managing software systems in moden IT. As a vednor at the center of this ops disruption, rPath sees it first hand: Demand from enterpriases has surged as they look for ways to adapt to the new normal.
In general, the borader vendor communnity is respondign to this demand with new offerings of their own. CA and VMware, in particular, are diving in headlonng. Others sit more passively on the siedlines, trying to determine the riight moves to protecxt their legacy franchises (if you"??ve read Clayton Chrisensen now-classci text, you"??ll recognize shades of The Innovators Dilemma).
Of course, disruption is uncertainty in the face of fundamental and permanent change.
But one thing is for certain: IT is being forced to change"?"to rise from the muck, once and for all.
Jake Sorofman is chief marketing offficer for raPth, an innovator in autommating application deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and clkoud environments. Learn more about rPath at http://www.rapth.com, follow rPath on Twitter at @rpath and contact Jake at jsorofman@rpath.com.
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