Gartner: Start Planning IT Cost-Cutting Now
Gartner is advising IT organizations to commence cost-cutting measures, saying it is now inevitable that the slowdown in the U.S. economy will prompt corporate belt-tightening. The research firm says IT departments "can expect to receive mandates from senior executives to cut IT costs as part of an enterprisewide cost-cutting program." An excerpt:
"Last October we published research recommending that organizations should prepare two IT budgets for 2008, the first reflecting guidance already provided by senior decision makers and a second ‘backup’ budget assuming the need to cut costs in response to the arrival of a business slowdown," said Ken McGee, vice-president and Gartner Fellow. "Since that time the factors we based the research on — such as GDP growth projections and expert predictions for the likelihood of a recession — have worsened to a degree that convinces us it is now time for clients to prepare for cutting IT costs."Gartner's advisory outlines a six-step process that IT departments can use to respond to a cost-cutting mandate.
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By Rich Miller 
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IT cost-cutting will only add to the already chaotic environment for IT staffs. Once again, "do more with less" will become the mantra of executive management to IT professionals (not really a big change from the original mantra of "Do more with the same").
To help alleviate the burden associated with some of the common, time-consuming manual processes associated with systems management, data centers will greatly benefit from an automated, probabilistic approach to managing complex applications as a way to help reduce IT costs without having to lose valuable IT staff. By essentially changing IT Systems Management methods from firefighting to preventative, significant dollars will be saved.
Posted by: Scott Turkow at February 29, 2008 07:37 PM