Akmal Khan

One of the obvious driving factors around enterprise Linux adoption has been the significant cost savings on software and hardware. Quite simply, the hardware is cheaper and the OS is cheaper. By taking advantage of the explosion of commodity Linux boxes - and by going the Linux route to get around costly licensing issues on the software side - enterprises are finding the economics around Linux to be quite attractive. Unfortunately, the cost around managing this "cheaper" IT infrastructure is often overlooked. Over the last few years, the enterprise has grown increasingly concerned with these costs of IT systems management and administration. In a study put out last year by IDC, for example, the findings confirmed that IT operations management costs are currently growing more than three times faster than the enterprise spend on new servers. And we're starting to see... (more)