Configuration management skills are vital to going green in the ...

Data Center (May 7 2009)

1. IT organizations are pushing to reduce their operating costs and go green. In pursuit of these objectives they are consolidating data centers, addressing power consumption, implementing virtualization and assessing cloud computing. As usual, IT is in a rush to buy a solution, click "install" and move on to the next crisis. The problem is that the supposed solutions are built on a fragile house of cards, because many IT organizations and data centers do not have an accurate understanding of the services they provide and the discrete server and application configuration items (CIs) that make up those services. This problematically violates one of the most basic tenets of process improvement -- that the people, processes and technologies of the current state are accurately understood. (Read Full Article)

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