Division of Labour
What are Silos?
Are Silos under attack?
Vendor impact on Silos?
ITIL impact on Silos?
Staff impact on Silos?
What do the professionals think?
What does the future hold?
The rise of the Data Center Engineer
,CIO
Farmer / Compute
builder / storage
weaver / network
tribal knowledge
culture
process
people
technology
governance
management
standards
metrics
planned work
unplanned work
cost-center
technology, not business, focused
not agile
not core
cloud computing
pre-built solution stacks
creates more silos
homeopathy for IT
IT - ITIL = Common Sense
the word from the silo staff
A poly-specialist lives outside the silo
but does some of the silo's tasks like

* Architecture overlap
* Deployment, inc. configuration
* Troubleshooting
Does a Poly free a Uni, or alienate them?
96% of respondants said virtualization is changing their organization
"If you're a one-trick-pony then 
you've got be brilliant, at the top."
"We need to change but change
is slow, the silos are resisting."
"Multi-skilled covers technology
and operations."
the business will Right Source its IT from anywhere
Internal IT Silos mandate solutions for business
things that IT staff themselves say
a specialist division with opaque walls
VCE alliance Vblock stack
IT Departments and the Collapse of the Silo