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Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped over a candle stick…what can we learn about this nursery rhyme? If we suppose Jack is within a modern IT Department, he is feeling the heat. The need or push toward IT efficiency and compliance has CIOs jumping. CEOs are looking to force a paradigm shift within those monies allocated to IT components from the long-standing 80/20 tenet. According to Editor in Chief and VP, Rob Preston, at Information Week: “the maintenance and upgrade became the recurring cost of doing business, to the point where spending on upkeep accounts for 80% of the average IT budget, with only 20% left for the new stuff that drives new revenue opportunities.”1 Jack doesn’t want to get burned and may need a proverbial leg- up to get to where his CEO needs his department.
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