Compute server obsession?

If you step back and try to look at the IT infrastructure landscape unbiased by the commonly held opinions we are indoctrinated with by big players, press and analysts, one of the oddities that jumps out is the almost obsessive focus on compute servers as the resource to be managed. Little or no attention is paid to the fact that other resources that are shared between applications are equally important when it comes to delivering the desired Quality of Service and managing expenses. File Servers, Database Servers, and even software licenses are examples of resources that often are a lot more expensive to own and operate than compute servers and have just as much impact on the end-user experience and the cost of delivering that experience. With server virtualization or container virtualization we can manage the allocation of server resources to application workloads at a fine-grained level. This means that we can consolidate servers, but in some cases just to have fewer of them waste time waiting for other resources. Only if it is possible manage the use of all resources shared between applications, can we be in a position to provision the optimal capacity for each class of resource and balance consumption to deliver the best possible Quality of Service. Is it time for vendors of resource management software to shift some of their attention away from the management of compute servers?