Utility computing
March 16th, 2007 by Jiri
Virtualization. Data Center consolidation. IP connectivity. ITIL process standardization. Shared IT Services. Global Labor Pools. More opex, less capex. SLAs. All building blocks for a utility computing model.Been helping clients look at the delivery model for relatively mature IT areas. Message to vendors - so long as you meet our security, privacy and compliance standards, we want as vanilla, standardized a service as possible. We want to leverage your compute grids. Sell us capacity by unit of consumption. Where we need on-site desk side services in major cities think in half day chunks to service a handful of tickets, not in dedicated weekly or monthly chunks. We want to leverage all your economies - in financing, procurement, operations, everything. In return, we want to fit as much as possible in to your standards.