Gregory Ness

Peak IT - The Network Industry's Core Challenge

Bigmoney:

Thanks for your comment. Let me make the case for peak IT a bit more concise:

1) As IT infrastructure grows there is increasing evidence of rising per unit management costs (servers-IDC; IP addresses-Computerworl...

2) Cisco predicts robust growth in IP addresses (14 billion by 2010)

3) As IT becomes more expensive to maintain (on a per unit basis) many firms will be forced by tight budgets into investing less in management productivity etc- and that is when the downhill slide begins. Operations expenses crowd out productivity investments.

QED: Network vendors need to address this issue in order to sell more gear; CIOs need to address this issue in order to keep up with inevitable infrastructure growth; virtualization and cloud will need network automation in order to fully deliver on their promises.

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