Guest View: The rise of IT Specialists

The client-server model introduced greater complexity to computing: distributed applications, data residency spread across platforms and two-phase commit, to name a few. Beginning with client-server models, IT Specialists started becoming more involved in business and business became more involved with IT.In contrast to the client-server era, today's IT environment is far more complex, and the business and IT people now must function together as seamlessly as the IT must be integrated with business processes. While this is now self evident from the architecture, solution and infrastructure perspective, it is equally true of the people that make the business and the IT happen.So who is ultimately responsible for today's IT environments? The builders, integrators and managers of these highly complex infrastructures are now known as IT Specialists.