How the recession is reshaping IT opshttp://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129716&source=rss_newsMarch 17, 2009 (InfoWorld)
Economic conditions may be even worse than they appear, and that spells significant changes for IT.
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IT shops simply cannot afford to ignore the world at large, so CIOs are likely to keep purse strings tight for months to come, and as a result, there will undoubtedly be long-lasting changes.
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The fundamentals of the economy have changed. With so much financial pressure, IT shops are being forced to make moves that optimize costs much more quickly than they would in an economic boom. Cloud computing, consolidation and virtualization were already gaining steam, and the recession will kick their adoption into high gear, analysts agreed.
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IDC projects that
IT spending on cloud computing will reach $42 billion by 2012, with cost savings as the primary driver. Gartner predicts that 10% of
servers will be virtual by year's end, and that number will skyrocket to 60% by 2013.
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Small and midsize data centers won't exist very long as companies take a look at why they're managing data centers themselves
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"IT's job will be managing availability and making sure users have access to what they need and can't get to what they're not supposed to see." Despite the vagueness of the term, Web 2.0 does involve communication and collaboration technologies that are transforming both expectations of information sharing and forcing a rethink of how and to what extent information can and should be managed.
