ADVERTORIAL ADAPTIVITY
Issue 10, June/July 10
ABOUT ADAPTIVITY VISION
ADAPTIVITY IS THE IT DESIGN COMPANY Founded in late 2007 by veteran IT practioners who have dedicated their careers to changing the way IT is delivered. Our eff orts have resulted in numerous industry awards for leveraging real time infrastructure, virtual datacenters and cloud utility models to deliver business impact.
Adaptivity was created to address the design challenges facing enterprise IT. We are leveraging our proven experience, industry partnerships and lessons learned to create a codifi ed intelligent design platform.
This platform enables enterprise IT to optimize, re-design and create new systems in a dynamical, virtual and agile manner.
IT DESIGN CHALLENGES Our experiences helped us realize there is a gap in the technology industry not being addressed:
the “root cause” of IT delivery limitations is directly linked to how systems are designed, built and run. There are four dimensions of enterprise IT system design that cause IT delivery limitations and misalignment to business expectations.
DESIGN DIMENSION #1 - “SILO-BASED” SYSTEMS DESIGN
Vendors and Enterprise IT have classically focused their eff orts and solutions on solving instrumentation and automation of the runtime instead of the design time.
The problem with this approach is automation of a system design built in vertical and horizontal silos. Vertical in terms of the application and data store supporting only a specifi c business function.
Horizontal in terms of systems components built independent of each other (server, storage, network) in a deployment topology not considering business process or data fl ow. The net result is performance bottlenecks and missed expectations.
DESIGN DIMENSION #2 - “TREES IN THE FOREST” MONITORING & OPERATIONS
Moreover, if systems are instrumented, they typically only monitor and manage for a single KPI of uptime instead of the qualities of experience the business demand and expects (ie. Response time, priority demand sequencing, business calendar, exception events, peak loads, unit cost, security requirements, etc…).
A monitoring and management system design such as this makes it nearly impossible to understand where adjustments can be made to accommodate the business.
DESIGN DIMENSION #3 - “ONE-SIZE- FITS-ALL” PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING
Amplifying the system design problem further is the current Enterprise IT strategy to accommodate business demand of higher performance for less cost.
The performance strategy is to implement a design of over-provisioned capacity in an attempt to meet peak periods therefore creating waste, ineffi ciency and no service guarantee.
Adaptivity was created to address the design challenges facing enterprise IT.
Alternatively, strategies to contain or reduce cost result in a consolidation and/ or infrastructure virtualization to achieve effi ciency but are typically at the expense of business performance. Neither of these design strategies enable business and IT alignment.
DESIGN DIMENSION #4 - CONSUMERIZATION OF ENTERPRISE IT
Compounding the system design problem for enterprise IT, is the evolving trend of “consumerization of IT”.
Users are experiencing a new IT delivery model via the web that is setting their expectations of transparent, fl exible and on-demand access to IT services via multiple channels and paid in a variable consumption manner. This directly contradicts existing economic allocation & delivery provisioning models of enterprise IT today.
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