The hybrid IT conundrum: How to effect seamless enterprise transformation
October 8, 2015
Grazed from CloudComputingNews. Author: James Bourne.
The term ‘enterprise transformation’ is frequently heard, relating to organisational change and moving away from legacy technologies. Accenture defines it as a “fundamental shift [of] strategy, in response to major disruptions through a complete, business-driven remodelling of how a company structures itself.” But how far down the company does change go?
Antonion Piraino, chief technology officer at IT management software provider ScienceLogic, argues organisations need to assess the effects of bimodal IT at an operational level as well as at the application layer. Speaking at IP EXPO, Piraino explained the consequences of bimodal IT – the idea that organisations need two speeds of IT, one for reliability and the other for agility…
“Your people now start to go down two different paths; [one] orderly, traditional IT, maintenance on a day to day basis, and [then] you have these new sprinting, DevOps-type people developing new applications, trying things all the time,” he said. “Your processes change dramatically now.”…
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