Preface

About This Book

IT is going through a major upheaval. So much of modern life is becoming digitized, resulting in a deluge of new information. Mobile devices are ubiquitous, providing many people with their principle mechanism for shopping, banking, finding information, collaborating, and organizing their life and health. Cloud-based delivery is changing the cost models around IT infrastructure. Any one of these changes would be disruptive. All three occurring at once—and feeding the growth of each other—creates a huge gap between an organization’s current needs and the services provided by its existing IT systems.

IT teams are striving to be agile, adopting new technologies and focusing on delivery of new capability while trying to ...

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