An IT leader on the way to the promised land comes to a fork in the road. There’s a sign up ahead with two arrows. The arrow pointing to the left path says: This way lies oral surgery. An arrow for the right: This way lies calculating the cost of IT assets versus their business value.
The IT leader begs for the drill. That’s what I’d say if I were telling this joke to CIOs.
Regardless of which path you prefer, quantifying the impact of your assets on the business is getting tougher. You are no longer solely managing application workloads and other resources under your own roof but are operating them across multiple clouds and, maybe, everywhere in between.
