Maturing Of Enterprise IT Consolidation
Published December 23, 2010
Global enterprise has gone through an aggressive consolidation of equipment centers and IT management. The current model of managing production services is
"Follow the Sun". The implementation is typically over three Global Data Centers (GDC), one each in South East Asia (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur etc),Europe and the Americas.
IT assets as well as management staff are concentrated at these GDCs. The GDCs provide almost ALL computing infrastructure, connectivity, messaging, business applications and security services. They also serve as concentration points for delivery of support services.
The consolidation processes has resulted in application and hardware standardization at the global level. In country IT is predominantly used for localized applications, for specific local requirements (like taxation, legal etc).
"Follow the Sun". The implementation is typically over three Global Data Centers (GDC), one each in South East Asia (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur etc),Europe and the Americas.
IT assets as well as management staff are concentrated at these GDCs. The GDCs provide almost ALL computing infrastructure, connectivity, messaging, business applications and security services. They also serve as concentration points for delivery of support services.
The consolidation processes has resulted in application and hardware standardization at the global level. In country IT is predominantly used for localized applications, for specific local requirements (like taxation, legal etc).