Information Technology is essential to the modern business. But is "IT"? Every business is faced with the challenge of advantaging information technology to remain competitive. But that does not mean that every business will self-service their information technology needs from their own IT shop. Information technology needs vary greatly from business to business so for some, outsourcing IT may be the right answer; for others the answer could be cloud-sourcing; for some the answer could be a traditional IT shop; and for others the answer could be some mixture of "all of the above". The challenge of running an efficient and effective IT shop is huge. However, the challenge of running a good IT shop is one shared between the suppliers of IT technology and products and those who deploy those IT technologies and products. It is time for the vendors to step up because all too many IT shops are "underwater".
This presentation will take a look at the many "oars" that IBM has in the water to help IT shops address future challenges. This presentation will illustrate that when those many oars are synched and steered in the same direction a very plausible future datacenter takes shape that can be referred to as "The Inevitable IT Singularity that is Converged Hybrid Systems". The oars churning the information technology waters include the following:
- The Cloud Paradigm and IT as a Service
- Workload-centric requirements gradients
- Edge systems
- Systems of record
- Enclosed clusters
- Single system images
- Heterogenous compute platforms (multi-platform)
- Hybrid compute capabilities (appliances)
- Adaptive hypervisors
- Workload-centric instrumentation
- Business metrics instrumentation
- IT Analytics
- Real-time workload-based platform optimization
This presentation will examine each "oar" in turn, expressing how when taken as a whole the "crew" that results is a multi-platform heterogenous and hybrid single system image enclosed cluster that is self-optimizing and dynamically adaptive based upon flexible business and technology policies. In other words, it is just the tool a future IT shop needs to become and remain efficient and effective in delivering information technology capabilities to the business.
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