“Well begun is half done.” -Artistotle

Bonjour,
Heureux commencement est la moitiéde l'oeuvre.

Today I will start with IT Services Trends discussion...

A.
Economic fluctuations and business uncertainty, accelerated service globalization, and increasing competition of IT services are major factors that could force businesses to move further toward low-cost IT, according to Gartner, Inc.

Gartner defines low-cost IT as the delivery of managed IT services (infrastructure, application, business process services) designed and implemented to minimize IT price — per-user/unit per-month (PUPM) — while maximizing the number of client organizations and users that adopt the services.

B.

1.    Virtualization and Data Center Consolidation will progress to Privet & Hybrid Cloud.

2.    Cost, Efficiency & focus on Core functions would be the primary driver for outsourcing and offshoring IT Operations.

3.    Lower cost & SaaS based IT management tools and open source tools will be evaluated against high cost Enterprise Management Tools. Enterprise Management Tools will also offer SaaS model to counter this trend.

C.

ABC’s private cloud implementation

·         Virtualizing the infrastructure helped ABC achieve a server consolidation ratio of 12:1 for its IT infrastructure services / development environments and a ratio of 6:1 for production systems. ·         Server provisioning time has been reduced from half a day to 30 minutes. ·         Applications (custom or non-custom) moving from a non-virtualized to a virtualized architecture need to be tested for successful operation in a virtual environment. ·         Applications need to be tested and may require re-architecting for offering multi-tenancy. ·         IP address-based application access, active server directory-based access did not work after being moved to the virtualized environment and needed re-architecting. ·         Most of Patni’s applications did not require re-architecting for multi-tenancy.