Legacy Blog from Sun Microsystems: https://blogs.oracle.com/dmular_itil/https://blogs.oracle.com/dmular_itil/
Great partners take the longer and different view about how we bring together "service strategy", "operations" and "invoices" to deliver service management solutions. THESE are the types of partners that are compelling for today's business culture. THESE are the ones to watch!
What we are using in terms of data and web based applications does not change. What does change is the cultural practice of a box or three for every application used in the enterprise.. Outsourcing the box for a box strategy gains not enough efficiency.. When you start talking about getting value, it's from the service level-- what are the best practices for "application management"? What are we doing with virtualization that creates 'service'value?
Talk to the person who pays the bills for data center storage, they care about capacity and cost... and can see the difference between a well deployed solution and a well marketed cost. The real value proposition in Eco-Green Initiatives requires a reach outside of our comfort and perhaps knowledge zone. Green of using less space and less power is GREEN only if folks who are paying the bill "get it" that the power of configuration and service management IS the green that most CFOs and many CIOs are really caring about.
Eco-environmental business might not be forefront in every business, but it is valued in the businesses of all sizes who view and deploy technology for competitive advantage. Conservative business management IS forefront in every cloud computing business, with scalability, speed, agility, and controlled costs, and something every IT and CIO group dances with regularly. Sun CIO, Bob Worrall was recently was recently interviewed by Forbes magazine .
What would a perfect eco-efficient work force look like? In the data centers, in the IT Cost Model, in the Human Resources Recruiting Practice, in the chief executive offices? A new tool kit is not necessary to develop an awareness for eco-business potential. Let us let that become one of the Key Performance Indicators we become aware of, and then let best practices of ITIL, Capability Maturity Modeling, PRINCE2, Sigma... whatever produce the needed outcome. In any case, it should have a pretty clear case for the investments.
Sun's Application Rationalization and Hardware/Server Virtualization are key to Sun's cost and eco solution. The rationalization effort is in identifying what is legacy and what is warranty capacity in the data centers. For Sun this came in the form of a business application of 500 business applications that were to be replaced with a single instance of Oracle, is enough to attract attention... Doing this business transformation over the course of the rapid pace we have assumed gets further appreciation for the level of standards and practical team work that must be accomplished.
So where's the "Green"... the "before" snapshot of 1,300 servers to the "makeover" of 180 servers tells the story. It is a story of less energy, more focus on value, virtualization to drive up utilization and drive down data center real estate costs. This is not about determining what we can live without, it is about determining how we can live better, with architecture, with standards, and with structure.
This is real, folks. The possibility is now, for us to really start transforming our business practice. It starts with thinking of the "services" and "partnership" potential. Let us not be so hypnotized by the notion that I "don't get" the application layer business requirements, or "reducing the server footprint is not my job, man". It's about an awareness that with a simple thought and set of tools for executing on that simple though, we can create radical advantage.
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