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It has been a time of great change in the world of IT. IT organizations are under increasing pressure to simultaneously reduce operating costs, increase efficiency and improve responsiveness to the needs of the business. In recent years, these pressures have led IT to study and adopt an entire range of quality frameworks, such as ITIL, COBIT and CMMi. It has also been a major driver behind things like virtualization and outsourcing.
As these pressures continue, we are seeing IT organizations focus their energies and resources in three key areas. Understand them and address them and you will be well positioned to transform your organization.
One of the most significant developments in technology over the last several years has been the exponential and simultaneous reduction in storage costs and the increase in the perception that vast amounts of data are a right. There has quite simply been an explosion in the volume of data that enterprise organizations create and store. This has had an obvious impact on IT, requiring IT organizations to build and scale storage systems fast enough to keep up. But the ramifications extend far beyond mere storage.
IT's customers will increasingly be turning to IT for help in three critical areas: data integrity, data normalization and business intelligence.
Data integrity is one of the most challenging areas. When we discuss data integrity, we are really talking about two different things:
