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Last week, I listened to Donna Scott of Gartner describe some interesting poll results from the Gartner 2007 Data Center conference. The point that struck me most was that the largest percentage of respondents said their application teams, rather than IT operations teams, are responsible for deploying their applications to the data center. I’m not really surprised, given the complexity of deploying .NET and Java applications, which are the technologies used by over 70% of the respondents. But I can’t help but wonder how much development productivity and operations staff utilization is being lost in these cases. How can application teams maintain a steady deployment pipeline of business application functionality if developers must change hats to deploy new or updated applications, manage deployment environments and respond to deployment and configuration changes? How can the IT operations staff efficiently manage their data centers when they must rely on and wait for the development team to solve their operational issues?

Check out this interesting post talking about application deployments and the data center. It’s an interesting read and covers some great topics.

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