As I write this column it is only a few days before my daughter’s wedding. So if it seems that this has “slightly” influenced this column, please grant me some literary license (or at least sympathy, as a classic “father of the bride”).
The relationship between IT and the physical data center has been sort of a shotgun marriage (I won’t say who was pointing the shotgun). Nonetheless, over the years it has been rocky at times, and especially so, as the partners seem to age at different rates.