Dealing with an ever more complicated infrastructure

http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/news/psecom,id,16389,srn,4,nodeid,1,_language,Singapore.html

A recent study done indicates that IT professional worldwide struggle with the increasing complexity of data center management while at the same time facing sever budget and personnel constraints. And to ease management challenges, they are relying on several different technologies and initiatives including storage capacity management, virtualization and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) frameworks.

The survey — The State of the Data Center study– is a two-part research series highlighting top trends and challenges for data center managers. Conducted in April 2007, the first part of this study included more than 500 respondents from enterprise-class companies in the North American, European and Asia Pacific markets.

Conducted by security company Symantec Corp the responses of the study indicates that the growing volume of servers, applications and operating systems in today’s data centers is contributing substantially to data center complexity.

Check out this article, its talking about a data center study by Symantec which talks about the growth in server volumes, applications and operating systems, how the IT infrastructure is getting more complex, even though I might virtualize the operating system, I still need to administer and support it, how we deal with this will be the issue. The problem being that for each operating system or suite of operating systems I might have one management tool, that there still isn’t one platform through which I can easily manage the different virtualization platforms, Microsoft, ESX, Virtual Iron and Xen Source, these things will come, in the meantime, speaking with people to see what they’ve done seems the way forward, an interesting article, check it out.