We have heard it all our lives as IT that technology is always changing and the tide has currently turned in the direction of effeciency as we like to see it. It is rich with security, ever changing gadgets have turned. All of us have gone to Brookstone to look at gadgets, things that make "life easier" and be more effecient. We had browsed Day Runners and Franklins and read every book that has been put on shelfs.
Our efficiency has given us add-ins, widgets, gadgets, apps, "The easy Button". Now comes mobility, smart phones, effeciency is now on a different level, a different continuim. It has swung to what we call Law2020. I have been taken by it's change over the past say 5 years as in my environment, the datacenter footprint got smaller and has allowed me more servers within 2 physical HP "rigs" to give me a total of 13 servers! Now, I am condensing my 13 servers down to half. This takes care of my printing and login a.k.a. file/print server and Active Directory and the 2nd server to take care of a legacy application and a big ole NAS that holds the beast called DATA.
The rest of my apps are stored up in "La La La" land in a few datacenters spread throughout the world. Currently, our documents are stored in the cloud using NetDocuments and have done so over the past three years. Now we are contemplating a change again for the movement of our email to the cloud using Google Apps.
An endeavor that will change course of workflow through the whole office here and will forever change mobility. I hope to blog more through the course of the transition.