The relentless pursuit of business agility in the 21st century is forcing IT to evolve to higher plains of existence. IT evolution is all about disruptive technologies and best-of-breed ideas merging together to lead to even better solutions for the enterprise. Two such 800 pound gorillas that are coming together presently are Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Gone are the days when IT infrastructure (storage, network, and servers) was a static and lifeless entity. Today’s agile business models mandate an infrastructure that is equally agile; one that can quickly adapt to the dynamic and evolving business needs, scale both horizontally as well as vertically, and most importantly maintain a high benefit/cost ratio. Our first gorilla, RTI, is the industry’s answer to this business need and has been well adopted across the board albeit with varying names such as Utility Computing, Adaptive Enterprise (HP), On Demand (IBM), Scaleable Enterprise (Dell), Organic IT (Forester), Dynamic IT (IDC), and RTI (Gartner and Unisys).
