Deferred IT Maintenance Is a Ticking Time Bomb

snydeq writes "The underfunding of routine hardware replacement purchases and the degradation of aging enterprise apps pose systemic risk for many IT organizations, thanks to a ballooning 'deferred IT maintenance debt' in the decade since Y2K fears pushed enterprises to invest heavily in essential system upgrades, InfoWorld's Bill Snyder reports. And with sysadmins 'scrambling to keep systems up and running with budgets that barely cover the basics,' this 'IT debt' promises only to increase in the coming years, especially as IT continues to defer routine maintenance in favor of new 'cost-saving' initiatives, particularly around the cloud."

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Re:How is this newsworthy? It's just common sense.

[I8TheWorm]

I think it's a setup for the "IT Industry Invaded by Incompetent Idiots" and "CIOs Found Replacing Working Systems with Crap Made By Their Hunting Buddies" articles.

A large portion of /. readers are in IT and already knew this. However, seeing it in "print" in a newsrag you might find in a CIOs office is a little noteworthy. It means it's only a matter of time before someone comes rushing to your desk to say "Our CIO just read an article about infrastructure and we need an ans..."

Hang on, someone's at my desk.

Re:How is this newsworthy? It's just common sense.

[Z34107]

You want to watch a "real" programmer wet his pants in fear you hand him a huge 14 page VB mess written by a half a dozen guys over the years ...

Do you want to see real bedwetting? If you're most anywhere in America, your healthcare depends on a few gigabytes of VB6. That it works speaks to the value of good development practices.