Many a conflicting priority: security and information access, open source, and the future of applistructure are contention points in your next IT purchasing decision.(Computing infrastructure)

Manufacturing Business Technology, July, 2005 by Keller, Erik

Infrastructure technology--the "inside plumbing" that keeps corporate computing humming--is the kind of purchase that, while often remaining under the radar screen, still gives a business manager pause. Add to that a number of converging trends, and more diligence is required. These include attention to security and information access, open source, and infrastructure's consolidation into the technology stack of major application providers--i.e., "applistructure."

To begin, security threat concerns--both electronic and procedural--are hitting IT staffs, thereby consuming both resources and time. Recent IT spending surveys offered by New York-based Morgan Stanley place systems and network security as the No. 1 and No. 2 investment priorities, respectively,...

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