July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
8h 22m
English
book
Modernizing the Datacenter with Windows Server and Hybrid Cloud
by John McCabe, Ward Ralston, Jeffrey Snover
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Chapter 2
Modern IT—the coming inflection point
In this chapter, we discuss what ultimately is the crux of the book, and we discuss the initial topics for beginning to understand the journey of Modernizing IT.
Modern IT is a new approach to information technology that enables companies to maximize their competitiveness by building things that differentiate them from their competitors while they minimize everything else. The term digital transformation is popular these days. That term concisely conveys how every business and endeavor (airlines, retail, manufacturing, and so on) is being transformed by putting the customer at the center of everything and using the power of software to compete. Companies that want to be successful at digital transformation ...