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Is your infrastructure nearing the point at which systems will no longer serve business needs, or even be maintainable? As complex SOAs (service-oriented architectures) and converged applications like VoIP become the norm, IT is paying the price for integrating too many applications on a point-to-point basis using custom-built, undocumented scripts. The result is unstructured procedural activity, ballooning labor costs and an inflexible service-delivery infrastructure that does nothing to improve customer relationships.
What happened to Paul Horn's grand vision of autonomic computing? Simply, while paying lip service to the goal of automation, our industry all too often took the path of least resistance, solving tactical problems but putting off the hard work needed to achieve self-healing systems.
If you're ready to change course, CA, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, along with a cadre of smaller software vendors, have joined IBM in seeking to solve practical IT challenges. But to make automation work for your enterprise, you need an understanding of your environment, business objectives, technical requirements, and existing processes and workflow. With a little self-knowledge, enterprises can achieve significant savings.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
