I read The race for the integrated technology stack, from Enterprise Strategy Group this week. Some completely valid points are made about the transition that IT departments and tool vendors in the ITSM space are going to have to go through to add value to the ‘new’ integrated data center. Virtualization has already challenged many deeply entrenched paradigms that many IT staff, and software vendors, have struggled to adapt to.
Agility from a training and tooling point of view are going to be essential for companies to see success in their rapidly changing environments and ensure that they are able to maintain their IT SLA with their users through this transition. As the integrated stack and adaptive infrastructure continue to gain share in large environments I have to wonder how software vendors, who are already unable to adapt to the rate of change in the data center, will stay relevant.
I see more agile companies like uptime, who already have mature solutions in the virtual systems management & physical server monitoring space, being able to adapt faster and offer solutions that directly address challenges in the new data center well before the big 4 framework vendors are able to align their solutions with the modern day problem set.
Tags: adaptive infrastructure, IT SLA, IT Systems Management, server monitoring, virtualization, VMware
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