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I was having a chat with one of my CIO friends and he mentioned a phrase to me ‘wire once’ during a conversation about patching and networking and I asked him to explain what he meant, its a phrase that I hadn’t heard before, the conversation is summarized below:

We need to move away from the concepts where a change to the server network, the storage or the configuration results in eight different teams and resources in order to complete a given transaction, a move to Wire Once technology. I should plug in one cable for my network and storage, that move to service provisioning down that wire, a change it network speed or network lan is a configuration change, a change in storage again is a configuration change – we move away from a guy walking around the data center moving from one patch row to another, where we do fewer physical changes.  That’s where the wire once comes in, we deploy the cabling once from the patch frame to the port, from the port to the switch and to the server, changes in network connectivity, in storage should all be independent of the cabling, just achieving this will save me significant planning, resourcing and revenue, that’s not to say I don’t need the same people, it’s just that they will be free to do more valuable work, less fire fighting, more investment, more delivery, achieving more with less.

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