Information Age: Cognizant’s Vice President of IT Infrastructure Services Makes a Case for Simplification in a Hyper-Connected, Fast-Moving World

“Rather than build and develop more complex systems, the onus now is on simplification,” writes Venugopal Lambu. “By simplifying IT and running it more effectively, organizations can make it easy to consume, govern and change, while driving cost efficiencies.” Excerpts:

“Infrastructure services have converged. A few years ago, IT companies often specialized in one area—for example, networking, storage, high-end servers, and so on. Now, specialized companies have diversified, often offering everything a company could need in one box.

Converged infrastructure has enabled organizations to take a simpler approach to their IT infrastructure, and the new, SMAC-centric model of enterprise IT now makes simplicity a necessity. IT used to be seen largely as a cost center, with its main goals being things like availability.

Now, the goals and demands have changed to 24-7 business availability, productivity and connectivity. CIOs want IT services that can be used, managed, and procured both quickly and easily.

These changes in IT have often been mirrored by rapidly evolving business models for many different vertical sectors. Mobile technology as well as “always on” availability of services and goods require agile, progressive, and predictive infrastructure at the heart of each business.

Simplification is not just about making life easier for the IT department to partner with business, but to also prepare the business to be market-relevant; it can speed up time-to-market for new products or services, help in decision-making, enable innovation, and boost customer responsiveness.

As organizations move forward in today’s hyper-connected, fast-moving world, they need to decide who leads simplification and define their mandate to run better and build a progressive and agile IT infrastructure that forms the foundation of their business.”

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