It Management in the Clouds With Saas
Undoubtedly, IT change management. Not long ago, the success of a manager is the number of stations and servers, he was a manager for the data center of its activities. They boast about the size of their network with their peers in interviews, and they use the large and growing number of computers as an excuse for more staff and budget increase. Network management of energy equal to a professional respect. I swear I heard this line many times: “You want me to manage what, I already manages 87 servers of 458 pc, backup and storage firewall in our network, I have more than three technicians and twelve other PCs to your professional question. Oh – and I can not guarantee that you will be satisfied with the result. ”
But these are the old days, when the idea of ROI (return on investment) seemed to skip the computer needs of the budget of the Ministry. Looking back at least a decade later, that attitude seems far away and ridiculous. Today is a good IT management assessed on its ability to achieve results with as little as possible. With an economic and competitive pressures mounting, IT management must function effectively. Even terms such as collocation and web hosting ASP-age seems to be absolute. Today, the weight and managers have increased the number of applications and services that are served in their business and how they minimize costs.
IT Management This development was made possible by the total duration of SAAS (Software as a Service) from the main stream. In recent years we have an escalation of the migration of applications from the desktop to the Internet. Apparently, the physical conditions of the Internet and network infrastructure have matured and have the option of the economic SAAS the solution obvious.
First, it is always about the numbers. Now organizations can ask whether it is reasonable to buy, configure, reception, maintenance, air conditioning, and back-up. Suddenly, whatever the application software and hardware is optional. As an alternative to a fraction of the cost, a company can “rent use” remotely using a PC browser or a mobile browser and can do anywhere, anytime, 24×7.
Another important factor in increasing SaaS Beyond the ASP approach, progress in the infrastructure available. Genre grid computing in the cloud is almost endless. Now solution providers can easily follow the pioneers such as Salesforce or Google and SaaS offers them. More power is available to your company in the blink of an opinion when things go and grow. That makes spending more linear and predictable profits. SaaS Redefined scalability. Therefore, in most scenarios SaaS prices to final consumers is logical because it is directly linked to the consumption indicators such as volume and use of resources per customer. Simultaneously, the bandwidth cheaper and more widely to companies and their mobile employees.
Third, the economic mood swings and a competitive business environment made the return on investment, the new king of the block. The macro-economic development can be much larger than what is on the surface. Since the growth of SaaS is growing, it is possible that the thin client vision we will see, is making a comeback? While desktop computers can get thinner as the treatment is given in the clouds of Saas. This can lead to a slowdown in the race for processing power and even laws against economic Moor.
One of the most interesting companies are positioned to benefit from successful developments in SaaS computing is SAManage, a startup company in the IT Asset Management space. SAManage environmental uses cloud computing to deliver on-demand, SaaS-based IT Asset Management and inventory tracking for companies in the world. In a recent interview with the CEO SAManage, Doron Gordon, I asked about his strategy, given the changing landscape of the traditional computing environment and new challenges it is facing managers. “It seems the one hand, that IT managers will make life easier, but unfortunately it is a wrong assumption. Yes, it’s true, there will be less hardware to manage, but managing the SaaS contracts, licenses and intelligent and SLA efficiently, while controlling the financial and legal aspects and the implementation of the policy file, the new challenges that the manager will face. “Doron continues:” The ROI is the Holy Grail of today’s IT management, coaching SAManage to the manager the tools to achieve this. ”
Obviously the new manager to make ROI calculations continuously. And guess what – they do not teach in engineering schools? Looking through the clouds, it seems that companies hire the CTO will be looking for candidates with experience CFO.
Written by Dror Gliksman, tech and online marketing specialist webwhile inc.
