I’m seeing more and more on self-service IT for the enterprise – as one of the key IT trends for 2010. It’s a great message for newScale and our “IT storefront” positioning for the data center and the desktop, driven by both the consumerization of IT and the impact of cloud computing.
As an example, check out this short video of Michael Dell at Oracle OpenWorld:
The transcript is below. I love the quote: “making it wicked easy for the consumer of IT to consume”.
I'm going to adopt that mantra for newScale!
Here's a bit of the transcript Jason sent.
Speaker:
Now, let's talk a little bit about some of these self-service IT models. Customers are asking for more modular services, remote infrastructure management, automation, self-service, on-demand IT models, where services are deployed more seamlessly.
As one engineer described it to me, it's about making it wicked easy for the consumer of IT to consume.
... delivering the simplest, most reliable way to deploy and consume and manage IT applications and services. That's the efficient enterprise
And because it's Friday, I leave you with a song from Dropkick Murphy's, "Wicked Sensitive Crew" Wicked!
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