By Sacha Nasr
There’s a kernel of good thinking in the Bimodal IT concept. Different applications of information technology require different approaches. Product development may depend on agile processes running on infrastructure that’s quick to deploy, scale, and spin down. Customer databases require an entirely different approach: long-term stability, reliability, and correctness. But bimodal IT contains the faulty assumption that the cloud isn’t entirely capable of supporting both approaches to infrastructure management.
Separation problems
Bimodal IT is dangerous for the same reason maintaining silos has always been dangerous. As Jason Bloomberg has said:
“Fundamentally, Bimodal IT recommends maintaining your organizational silos, which is contrary to the entire notion of business transformation. True, I advise executives to know when to optimize, and know when to disrupt – but not in separate silos!”
Read the entire article at https://www.computenext.com/blog/bimodal-it-not-a-permanent-solution-for-legacy-infrastructure-problems/.
