{"id":10628,"date":"2021-04-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10628"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:02:44","slug":"infrastructure-and-operations-evolving-to-keep-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/infrastructure-and-operations-evolving-to-keep-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure and Operations: Evolving to Keep Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.com\/blogs\/io-infrastructure-operations-organizations\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.com\/blogs\/io-infrastructure-operations-organizations\/\">The enterprise I&amp;O team (Infrastructure and Operations) team<\/a>  are responsible for administering and managing the technology, information and data for a business.  This includes things like servers, networking, storage, data, software applications, security, and cloud services.  Responsibilities include policies, testing, running installs and upgrades, and performing repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2020-12-07-gartner-identifies-the-top-trends-impacting-infrastructure-and-operations-for-2021\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2020-12-07-gartner-identifies-the-top-trends-impacting-infrastructure-and-operations-for-2021\">A Gartner seminar in December 2020<\/a> identified six major trends happening among I&amp;O teams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Access from Anywhere.<\/strong>  Employees are increasingly working from home.  I&amp;O needs to be able to support decentralized business activities.<\/li><li><strong>Optimizing Infrastructure<\/strong>.  I&amp;O needs to optimize cost and IT resources and provide simple solutions to complex business problems.<\/li><li><strong>Automated Continuous Service Delivery.<\/strong>  I&amp;O needs to be able to function efficiently even when its members are dispersed.<\/li><li><strong>Modernization.<\/strong> I&amp;O needs to keep pushing modernization.  The result is lower technical debt and more agile infrastructure.<\/li><li><strong>Distributed Cloud Model<\/strong>. I&amp;O needs to become more efficient by relying on external cloud infrastructure. The cloud provides more flexibility and reduced latency.<\/li><li><strong>Hire Needed Skills<\/strong>.  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