Original Article Trasformazione digitale, i passi per ottimizzare la gestione di infrastrutture e applicazioni
Round table from ZeroUno back in 2016
In companies, one of the main watchwords is speed. Speed in developing new products and services so as not to be overwhelmed by historical competitors, who are also racing to avoid losing or gaining market share in a market that is changing day by day. Speed and flexibility to anticipate or counter new competitors that come from different markets and decide to enter other businesses in a new way.
And also speed to hold their own against start-ups – often so promising that they quickly obtain large amounts of funding – that enter a traditional sector with ‘disruptive’ proposals based almost exclusively on innovative software and algorithms. ‘In an interview that appeared back in 2011 in the Wall Street Journal,’ recalls Stefano Uberti Foppa, director of ZeroUno, ’the co-founder of Netscape said that software is eating the world. Meaning, by this statement, that more and more every type of business and every sector will be characterised by a digital and software application-oriented prevalence. In such a context, the relationships between business and IT departments in companies must change profoundly and become more collaborative over ever shorter time horizons. And this must also be the case within It itself, in particular between the development and operations worlds, with the aim of meeting the need for fast support of pressing new business initiatives’.
How can the release of new It services be optimised, balancing economic sustainability and security, in order to meet the speed requirements of business? This was discussed at an Executive Dinner organised by ZeroUno in collaboration with Nutanix and F5 Italia, during which the concepts of flexibility and performance of systems, which, alongside security and intelligence in application deployment, play a central role in the increasingly digitalised business, were explored.
‘The speed at which operations, development and operation, interact with the business bring the risks, that of development and operation processes “getting stuck”,’ said, for example, Roberto Carnevale of Solvay, SAP Solution Manager Expert within the Quality and Processes team, ‘which is the reason why we need vendors and system integrators to provide us with tools to help us manage these processes in an integrated way.’