Buying rlghT: Strategies for enterprise IT purchases

摘要

IT purchase is no longer as simple as buying PCs, notebooks, and servers. The IT infrastructure itself has become far more complex with lots of elements. Today, besides the cost of equipment, you also pay annual tariffs to a service provider, license renewal fees to software vendors, charges to get standards certification, and much more. In fact, every new IT purchase is a project in itself. You won't just buy security software, but you'll buy a solution to control various aspects of security like identity management, information security, and so on. You wouldn't just buy servers, but you'll probably look for a way to reduce your existing server fleet by going for server consolidation. Likewise, you'll follow a similar pattern for choosing a business application, a VoIP solution, etc.