Enterprise cloud for dummies

Learn the in's and out's of enterprise cloud

Published March 2017

The challenges facing today’s IT function are both familiar and strange. IT faces the same kinds of resource constraints it’s always had, but new and different solutions now provide ways to address them. Infrastructure is still a challenge, but recent innovations offer a path beyond the rough spots. This chapter explores the current state of enterprise IT.

In the past decade, IT infrastructure has undergone a revolution stemming from a number of evolution's across various resource silos. These changes have led IT to where it is today and they set the stage for the fundamental transformation that the industry is poised to undergo over the next few years. From storage to servers to software, no area of the datacenter has been spared.