Seminar Overview
This seminar addresses two converging trends for growing enterprises: outsourcing of enterprise datacenters and the emergence of Cloud Computing as a viable delivery model for business applications.
Managed Hosting
As enterprises face growing IT complexity and space and support constraints, they increasingly choose to outsource their physical datacenters and management. However, this model doesn’t always resolve issues such as low server utilization or the expense of unused software licenses.
Virtualization
While outsourcing has grown in popularity, virtualization technologies such as VMWare have evolved, providing another alternative for deploying and managing datacenter technologies. Virtualized datacenters provide more availability, scalability and cost-efficiency than traditional datacenters, but they often require that customers re-tool infrastructure and establish IT resources to manage it – costs that can negate promised savings.
Combining the Two via On-Demand Cloud Computing
Today, businesses can get the benefits of managed hosting and virtualization via just-in-time cloud computing. Because providers can use virtualization to improve the availability, scale and costs of computing resources, benefits can be passed on to the customer.
The bottom line is that for a monthly fee, clients can get the on-demand managed computing resources they need immediately, without traditional limitations and costs.
Seminar Topics/Agenda
- Cloud Computing and virtualization: an industry specialist discusses key trends and benefits
- Cloud Computing's role within managed services
- AT&T Synaptic Hosting – overview and demo
- Tour of AT&T's Global Network Operations Center (GNOC): tour the principal command and control center where the world's largest IP network is monitored and managed.
- Lunch
Who Should Attend?
- IT Executives considering virtualization or server consolidation
- CFOs who have previously rejected datacenter outsourcing because of cost.
- IT Managers facing datacenter capacity constraints or variable IT resource demands.
- Business leaders that are seeking more affordable disaster recovery solutions.