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Chapter 1

Surveying the State of IT
for the Enterprise
In This Chapter
▶ Discovering the key trends that affect the way IT does business
▶ Learning why flash storage and hyperconverged infrastructure have

revolutionized the datacenter

▶ Finding out how the public cloud can enable IT but creates new

challenges to overcome

T

he challenges facing today’s IT function are both familiar
and strange. IT faces the same kinds of resource constraints it’s always had, but new and different solutions now
provide ways to address them. Infrastructure is still a challenge, but recent innovations offer a path beyond the rough
spots. This chapter explores the current state of enterprise IT.

Trends Shaping IT Infrastructure
Today
In the past decade, IT infrastructure has undergone a revolution stemming from a number of evolutions across various
resource silos. These changes have led IT to where it is today
and they set the stage for the fundamental transformation that
the industry is poised to undergo over the next few years.
From storage to servers to software, no area of the datacenter
has been spared.

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