Increasing productivity and reducing costs has become the mantra of IT and network managers since the Internet bubble burst. No longer is money flowing to new technologies just because it's there; today's IT managers are more pragmatic and sensitive to investments that won't deliver a fast return on investment and cannot be quantified. All too often, IT managers fail to consider how unintended expenditures can result from the use of traditional technologies that work "well enough" that they haven't been replaced.
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