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Doing more with less以更少做更多

By Ken Wong | Tuesday, November 06 2007由李伟伦|星期二，2007年11月6日

Like any enterprise, CIOs of technology vendors rely on IT to enable their businesses.任何企业一样，技术供应商的CIO依靠科技，使他们的业务。

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It may surprise some people to learn that IT solutions companies suffer from the same problems as all others in the market.有些人可能惊讶地得知，IT解决方案的公司，在香港市场上的所有其他人同样的问题受到影响。

For example, Deva Choesin, an IT executive of IBM ASEAN says today's challenge continues to be how to "deliver more with less," and at the same time, perform business transformation.例如，德瓦Choesin，是IBM公司的IT主管表示，东盟今天面临的挑战仍然是如何“实现少花钱多办事”，并在同

一时间，进行业务转型。 "Hence we will continue to seek ways to be creative in our day-to-day operations, "keeping the lights on" at a lower cost so we can channel funds for our business transformation initiatives," he adds. “因此，我们将继续设法在我们日常的日常业务创新，”保持在一个较低的成本灯“，让我们可以为我们的渠道业务转型计划的资金，”他补充道。

Beyond issues of cost, IT companies also grapple with continuity.除了成本问题，IT企业也拼的连续性。 Disaster recovery has been important to many Asian businesses with the attacks of SARS, tsunami, earthquakes and terrorism in recent years.灾难恢复已被许多重要的亚洲业务在近几年的非典，海啸，地震和恐怖袭击。 Additionally, as businesses grow, they face challenges of increased IT complexity resulting from expansion, demand for seamless connectivity, as well as the need to mitigate risk and secure business outcomes.此外，随着企业的成长，他们面临的挑战，增加IT复杂性的扩张造成的，无缝连接的需求，以及降低风险的必要性和安全的业务成果。

At HP, the IT transformation has focused on improving the delivery of IT projects to ensure they are on time.在惠普公司，在IT转型对提高提供IT 重点项目，以确保他们准时。 Increasing the annual benefit of the IT organisation and the IT staff time spent on innovation and developing new

capabilities are also internal targets at HP, says Anthony McMahon, vice- president of HP Asia-Pacific and Japan.提高了IT组织的年度效益和IT工作人员的时间花费在创新和开发新的功能也被惠普公司内部的目标，安东尼麦克马洪说，副惠普公司亚太及日本总裁。 The company states that as part of the cost optimisation process, it has reduced the number of worldwide data centres from 85 to six and integrated 3,500 applications to 1,500, as well as lowered the number of legacy applications.该公司说，由于成本的优化进程的一部分，它已经从85降低全球数据中心数量为6和综合应用3500至1500个，以及降低了传统应用的数量。 "HP has also derived benefits from effective portfolio management to focus on the most important IT projects," he states. “惠普也从有效的投资组合的管理优势集中在最重要的IT项目，”他说。

Strong market demand for huge increases in bandwidth and the need for communications-enabled applications, are placing a strain on the existing networks.对于大量增加的带宽和通信功能的应用需要强大的市场需求，正在把对现有网络的压力。 Eric Lauzon, CIO at Nortel Asia, says with "hyperconnectivity" driving demand, the networks are supporting billions of connection points at the same time.埃里克劳容，北电亚洲首席信息官，以“超连接”的驾驶需求说，该网络是支持在同一时间连接点十亿美元。"Networks today have never been larger," he says. “网络公司今天从来没有较大的，”他说。 "But they are not designed for a 'hyperconnected' world, where anything that can be connected and would benefit from being connected, will be connected. We need new technology to transform IT and telecommunications." “但他们并非设计为一个'超级连接的世界，在那里任何可以连接并受益于被连接，将连接。我们需要新的技术，资讯科技及电讯改造。”

IT firms need IT IT企业需要IT

Sharing the same business concerns as any enterprise, IT companies also take advantage of IT to become more efficient with streamlined and speedy operations.共享的任何其他企业相同的业务问题，IT企业也利用它成为更精简和迅速行动的效率。 According to Choesin, IBM is a global company and it requires a seamless operation behind the scene to support an operation that crosses all time zones.据Choesin，IBM是一个全球性公司，它需要一个无缝的幕后行动来支持运作，跨越所有时区。 "I can be an executive in Singapore but my assistant is 12 time zones away. He needs to be as productive using things like web services to book meeting rooms, make travel arrangements, set my calendar as if he were sitting next to me," he says. “我可以在新加坡的执行，但我的助手是12个时区的距离。他需要作为生产用的东西如Web服务的书是会议室，使旅行安排，设置我的日历，犹如他坐在我旁边，”他说。

According to Lauzon, the IT organisation in Nortel is essential in providing a secure network, spanning 255 locations in 60 countries around