The Cost of Doing Nothing

by Mark Haynie

Senior IT executiveswith a lifetime of experience managing datacenters are facingcareer-threatening choices

Here's the scenario: You're an IT senior manager withmillions of lines of valuable and proprietary legacy code running yourworldwide business via expensive and powerful mainframes. Your internalcustomers rely on this mission-critical software every day, and your businesswould be dead without it, but the cost is becoming increasingly hard tojustify.

The CEO is now demanding that you cut computing costs, andthe users are demanding easier access via mobile devices - what should you do?

This scenario is playing out every day, as senior managersof global companies struggle to understand how their organizations should reactto the challenges and opportunities of Web 2.0 and cloud-based SaaS computing.

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