by Angela Guess
A recent article discusses ways in which Big Data can make enterprise IT more efficient. The article notes, “While most of the conversation these days concerning Big Data has been around what it means to be able to cost-effectively gather and analyze massive amounts of information from a business perspective, one area where the potential value of Big Data is being overlooked is inside the internal IT department.”
It continues, “More than any IT executive cares to admit, there’s a lot of educated guesswork that goes into managing the IT department. But with the advent of Big Data, it’s now a lot more feasible to analyze the information that IT collects about its internal operations to come up with a much more cost-effective IT strategy. In fact, according to Steve Sams, IBM vice president of site and facilities, customers have been coming to IBM to provide that service as part of a review of their IT operations that, in many instances, has created millions of dollars in savings.”
“For example,” the article continues, “Sams notes that while customers have moved relatively simple applications out onto virtual servers, the more difficult challenge is to determine what complex applications that have in place might be candidates to run on a virtual server, and just as importantly, which of as many as seven different virtualization models might be the best fit for a particular application. Rather than take a guess, Sams says IBM has created a set of tools that gathers all the relevant information that IT executives will need to make an informed decision.”
