cloud computing

One of the most challenging things in IT is making people believe we’re not an endless black hole.   Every organization I have been a member of has struggled with the same viewpoint of IT.  We’re looked upon as a cost not a savings.  Typically it’s because we’re the one division of the company that is spending money without adding any to the bottom line.  Sure most of the systems we put in for other departments such as Marketing or Sales save the company millions a year, but we never get the credit for helping make that happen.

When I started in IT ten years ago it was a very different place than it is today.  Windows 98 was bleeding edge for consumers and Windows 2000 was nipping at its heels.  I cut my teeth on NT 4.0 PDC/BDC to Active Directory migrations and ridding companies of the infamous Exchange 5.5.  Datacenters were vast with expensive cooling and payroll was sky high for the best and the brightest trained IT people.