IT stands for Information Technology

One of my favourite blog is "IT Best Kept Secret Is Optimization" and you can read there how Optimization can lead to huge success in many different businesses.

My aim here is to remind that optimization can also help IT and not only the business that relies on IT.

Let me give a non exhaustive list of use cases:

Batch scheduling : when to run all the tasks in order to reduce the total time it takes to run all the night jobs and/or reduce the use of critical/expensive resources

Resource allocation such as LPAR allocation

Real time small and long jobs scheduling

Processor optimization : Instruction scheduling approach to improve processor performance

Chip design

Compile optimization : make compiler deliver faster code through scheduling

Quantum circuit compilation

Energy minimization in data center

Migration scheduling : Schedule a migration plan

Human monitoring timetabling : who should do what when ?

IT Preventive maintenance : repair/replace before the server breaks

All those use cases can help IT save a lot and do much more. Furthermore this looks quite interesting!