What is the Future Direction of IT?

Yesterday during our team meeting, the VP for IT gave us a history lesson about IT, then he posed an interesting question stemming from Gartner writer Steve Prentice. With the rapidly changing use of IT resources both technological and human, how will local IT shops compete? End users are becoming more savvy since technology is used throughout their daily lives, they don't necessarily need the "Geek Squad" to solve their technological issues. Since these users are so savvy, they are more apted to seek outside resources, if you can't offer them the resources they need in a timely and easy to use nature. With that said, how will the current IT infrastructure change in the next 5 to 10 years? How can we better serve our customers with the rapidly changing technological culture? Where do we as IT professionals need to focus our career development for the future?

All are very interesting questions that I don't know the answer to.

Still thinking....

Windows 2003 Print Server Cluster on VMware

Hello, this is my very first blog and I am very excited about it. I have a new challenge at work. I have to replace the existing Windows 2000 print server with a Windows Server 2003 cluster where Windows will be installed on two VMware virtual machines. How exciting! I have done some preliminary reading, and I have found out that it both is possible and supported. So I have to schedule some time with one of my teammates to get my VMs created. I still don't quite understand how the heartbeat connection will work on Virtual machines, so I guess I have some more reading to do.