Tech Beat: Enterprise information technology

“Enterprise information technology” is one of those vague, but very widespread IT buzzphrases used to describe a wide range of software and hardware products, ranging from those that help companies manage large volumes of data to those that help companies manage their own technology.

The one theme that connects all these technologies is that the typical company – much like the typical American household – has growing amounts of “stuff” under its roof. Whether it be computer servers, layers of software being added haphazardly to maintain the servers, or volumes of consumer data that rest on these servers, all of this stuff needs to be organized in a somewhat orderly way so that it can be used to maximum efficiency, and, in the case of consumer data, stored in such a way that it may be easily called up on demand.

A couple of trends are driving this demand for technologies to better manage the enterprise and the data that rest within. The first, quite simply, is growth. As companies get bigger, they accumulate more computers to run their operations, and more consumer data to store.

Perhaps a more significant factor than sheer growth, however, is the haphazard way in which companies have typically grown their back offices: adding servers one, or a few at a time as required, and then patching them together with software and middleware, rarely taking the time to take a systematic look to determine how it might all be put together more effectively.

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