Storage Consolidation Trends Change IT Costs

Storage consolidation, cloud computing and hosted applications serve to streamline IT functions, they also change the traditional IT equation, that is according to this report on Computer World. While these trends make infrastructure less complex, the article points out that it also makes the model for identifying direct costs much more complex.

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"Factoring in costs of collateral impact should also happen at the project management phase as applications are being developed. While an organization's impact metric might state that a new application for 1000 users will require five help desk people, that number will surely rise to fit the initial learning curve, says Wolke.

"Embrace the cloud: Developers must understand how to design and architect applications differently to take advantage of the cloud especially when it comes to cloud-specific strategies for scaling data. 'Data is the Achilles heel of cloud computing when it comes to application development,' says Gualtieri."

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