Wednesday, October 18, 2006
According to Neal Weinberg at Network World magazine, Gartner analysts Mark Fabbi and Bob Hafner argued that IT and network engineering departments will “waste an estimated $100 billion over the next three years by overspending on network products and services.”
He [Fabbi] expanded on that premise this week to argue that network execs should only buy what they know they will need for the next two years, rather than buying more than necessary, just in case network requirements grow. More often than not, "just in case never comes," Fabbi said.
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Monday, October 16, 2006
Over the last several years IT organizations worldwide have spent billions of dollars implementing fault management tools and processes to maximize network availability. And now thanks to these investments and more reliable technologies, most enterprise and service provider networks operate with 99.9 percent uptime or better. So why do many IT organizations continue to focus their management resources on managing that ".01" percent of downtime?
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