Former wachovia svp and chief architect Tony Bishop, who currently is CEO of his own consulting firm, Adaptivity, offers a three-stage process to recession-proofing a Wall Street IT organization:rn1. Conduct a thorough inventory. "You need to know what you have and how it's all interconnected," Bishop says. He recommends using automated IT discovery software that finds and maps IT resources and their interdependencies - for one thing, you'll find out if there's anything there that shouldn't be, he notes. "At Wachovia, we found 100 servers that were supposed to have been decommissioned and ghost services running on boxes that weren't supposed to be there that were all creating incident management issues," Bishop relates. Once you have a clear picture of your hardware and software assets and how they're interconnected, you can see where to target efficiencies, streamlining or improvements.
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