On January 21th, 2010 the 16th edition of the Tech Data and Azlan partner event took place at the Home Boxx Exhibition Center Nieuwegein. This Partner Event has become an annual event, with over 60 leading ICT suppliers and over 2000 resellers and is the only ICT exhibition with a unique design, full of information and entertainment. I’ve presented two sessions at this event about how to Accelerate Deployment of the Private Cloud with Vblock Infrastructure Packages. Here’s my slide deck, kudos to Chad Sakac for helping me out with my presentation.
IT is undergoing a transformation. The current ‘accidental architecture’ of IT today increases procurement, management costs, and complexity while making it difficult to meet customer service level agreements. This makes IT less responsive to the business and creates the perception of IT being a cost center. IT is now moving towards a ‘private cloud’ model, which is a new model for delivering IT as a service, whether that service is provided internally (IT today), externally (service provider), or in combination. This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success.
While the need for a new IT model has never been more clear, navigating the path to that model has never been more complicated. The benefits of private clouds are capturing the collective imagination of IT architects and IT consumers in organizations of all sizes around the world. The realities of outdated technologies, rampant incremental approaches, and the absence of a compelling end-state architecture are impeding adoption by customers.
This new ‘private cloud’ model, which is a new model for delivering IT as a service, whether that service is provided internally (IT today), externally (service provider), or in combination. This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success.
By harnessing the power of virtualization, private clouds place considerable business benefits within reach.
Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, are putting you on a new road to greater efficiency, control and choice. A faster road to unprecedented IT agility and unbounded business opportunities. With the Virtual Compute Environment’s Vblock experience.
