CIOs must pay down the accumulated technical debt to regain strategic relevance while playing the role for which IT is best suited: guiding technology decisions.
Infrastructure and Operations: Secondary Effects
Inefficiencies in applications and architectures have a secondary effect on infrastructure. Application sprawl and unnecessary application complexity require larger infrastructure footprints that result in higher real estate, power, and licensing costs.
Furthermore, they often also result in less resilient operations as overly complex applications, architectures, and integrations create additional failure points and security concerns. This creates a challenging environment for operations teams as they try to proactively monitor, analyze and respond to incidents.