How ‘Complex IT Infrastructure’ is Killing Service Provider Profits and Destroying the Market
By Marc Staimer, President and CDS of DS Consulting
Published: March 17, 2009

Excerpt:
“Online services have rapidly become the “hot” market. Businesses such as content delivery networks that distribute movies, television, videos, music and photos, on-demand cloud computing, and online backup have all found abundantly receptive markets. The key to these online services is availability and performance. The guiding rules are that it must not ‘go down’ and it must not frustrate, irritate or aggravate customers or test their patience. These guiding rules are common sense to most service providers. Unfortunately, meeting these simple rules in the real world is far more of an IT challenge than most professionals ever anticipate.

“Online service providers increasingly struggle with these issues as well as application scalability, service flexibility, time to market and cost containment. They are typically utilizing one of two very complex infrastructure approaches: middleware or server virtualization. Each approach has severe limitations that cause insufferably painful tradeoffs. This paper will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of these approaches and then look at a distinctive, far more flexible and cost-effective third approach that’s based on infrastructure virtualization...”

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