Today we're going to have a heart-to-heart about evolution. No, I'm not touching the religious issues.What I want to discuss is enterprise IT evolution. When we talk about enterprise IT we have a set of ideas in mind about what it means. These ideas are about scaling to encompass the enterprise, integration with existing and new services and software,support of business processes and, most importantly, about manageability The thinking has been that big, all-encompassing solutions deployed in enterprises will provide, in effect, a single vehicle that can carry all or the majority of users and their business goals to cost-effectiveness nirvana. Ha! We now know, after almost four decades of enterprise-scale corporate networking, that this particular vision of nirvana is, for all intents and purposes,an illusion.It has been a particularly well-marketed illusion, I grant you, but an illusion nevertheless. Quick survey: Hands up everyone who has had a truly successful enterprise application deployment. I am talking about something that services a really large user population and delivers the ROI that you expected.
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