A Look at IBM and Packaged Server Benefits – and Exposures

The new PureSystems packaged server offerings from IBM spotlight potential benefits from systems-level integration that Saugatuck outlined almost two years ago as key for enterprise Cloud development, deployment and management (800MKT, Cloud Selection: Acquisition of Integrated Systems, 28Oct2010). A new Strategic Perspective for Saugatuck CRS clients offers the PureSystems Patterns offering as an example of how enterprise IT orgs can save on integration testing and enable redistribution of IT staffing.

There are potentially significant constraints and limitations, even challenges to gaining such benefits, including the economics of legacy vs. new hardware and systems; it’s not all beer and skittles by any means. But as is examined in the Strategic Perspective, Saugatuck expects significant growth in the range and number of such systems being developed, sold, and used - and we project that the amount of staffing required to deploy and maintain infrastructures will shrink over time. Even a relatively small decrease in the resources required for integration testing and maintenance can yield relatively large increases in manpower available for new business solutions.

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Charlie Burns is a Vice President for Saugatuck Technology, focusing on enterprise software, business/IT services, and IT systems technologies and management. With over 35 years of experience in the Information Technology arena, Charlie is an established expert in IT product and marketing management, and in IT user issues and requirements.
After 26 years with IBM, where he held positions in sales, product development and large systems product marketing, Charlie left to become Research Director at Gartner Group in 1993. In 1998 he joined Giga Information Group as Research VP. At both Gartner and Giga, he focused on large systems and the business practices of the major large systems vendors. In 2000, Charlie rejoined Gartner in a relationship management role responsible for two of its largest vendor clients.
Charlie received a BS in Computer Engineering from Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. Over the years, he attended a variety of IBM technical and research training programs, becoming an adjunct professor focusing on product management issues.

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