Most business managers don’t know it but this is very close
to the truth.
IT teams across the world live in day to day hope that their
servers and networks hold together and pray that the disaster recovery schemes
will be adequate in the event of catastrophe.
IT people are highly professional and, of course, their
server networks do deliver. Massive and expensive failure is surprisingly rare,
provided that the IT department gets what the IT department needs in terms of
budget. But, where budget is restricted, where the IT manager fails to make the
business case for upgrade, then performance and security start to become
threatened.
In addition, a complex IT infrastructure brings with it the
penalties of restrictive practise where a department head can’t get the
software, services or technology required for a lean department because what is
needed will not fit with the current IT infrastructure.
So, what’s the answer?
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