New technologies always generate hype. To cut through the hype and find the value, you have to see how things fit in the real world, both in implementation and in actual realized benefits.
That’s one of the reasons BlueStripe Software conducts an annual survey of IT Operations executives. It sheds light on their needs, their aspirations, and “what keeps them up at night.” We’ve uncovered some interesting trends, and this year was no different when we asked about service delivery, performance monitoring tools, and the cloud.
It’s conventional wisdom that the cloud is “good for IT” – that it can enable faster time to deployment, savings in capital and operating expense, consolidated infrastructure management, and flexible capacity scaling on demand. With that in mind, one number that stuck out in this year’s survey was seven – the percentage of executives who said they have committed to investing in public or hybrid cloud solutions for their critical applications this year.