Companies dependent on the "network infrastructure"
By Deborah Bates
21/04/2011
Companies across the world are very reliant upon the less "sexy" IT services - namely the storage and network services.
That's according to Pradeep Sindhu, a chief technical officer who spoke to BBC News about his opinion on the state of technology currently.
He claimed that users of many businesses networks didn't go near the "basement" services of storage and network infrastructure - as they were "not sexy" enough.
Sindhu went on to say that: "This is not a healthy state for the industry to be in."
In order to increase the glamour surrounding these back-office services, companies could consider investing in intelligent, innovative automated IT software. This might spark the interest of employees within companies and also encourage them to interact more with the "basement" staff.
The expert also spoke of how networks had changed throughout the years he had been involved in the industry; claiming: "Technology has advanced: new networks should be general-purpose networks that can do everything."
"You have to put the complexity into the software," he added on Newsley.
He then described what he believed the networks of the future would be like; calling them, the "new" networks.
It is Sindhu's believe that these will be fully and completely automated; have simplified software; and be suitable for all purposes.
