Gigaom Research webinar: The evolving data center – preparing the CIO for IT evolution

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With the abundance of cloud offerings in the market place, physical infrastructure is no longer an enterprise IT requirement. Cloud has established itself as an excellent option for infrastructure outsourcing.

Cloud offers inherent benefits and value propositions including flexibility, agility, nimbleness, and lower costs. While data center is an asset to the enterprise, the Cloud complements and enhances the value of on-premises infrastructure. Businesses should focus on which components of their infrastructure should be outsourced to the cloud ecosystem.

Therefore, the tight integration with public cloud services, as well as leveraging an on-premises infrastructure, provides a cost effective and scalable platform that is future-proofed in the face of quickly-evolving technology.

In this webinar, our panel will address these topics:

  • How do you identify the right approach to the data center — on premise, colocation, or cloud?
  • What key features should businesses look for from a colocation provider in their cloud connect services platform?
  • Why certain infrastructure choices can provide a better platform for specific applications, based upon the application requirements?
  • Why cloud does not replace your data center but rather complements on-premise infrastructure making those assets more valuable?
  • What benefits do enterprises incur by leveraging cloud connect services offered by their cloud provider?
  • Why is security, governance, cost, latency, management, and location are critical factors in enabling dynamic workloads and on-demand services enabled via the cloud environments?
  • What key features should businesses look for from their cloud provider?

Speakers include:

  • Marc Staimer, President & Chief Dragon Slayer, Dragon Slayer Consulting
  • Rich Morrow, founder / head geek, quicloud LLC
  • Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA
  • Don Schuett, Vice President, Business Development & Strategy, Telx

Register here to join Gigaom Research and our sponsor Telx for “The Evolving Data Center – Preparing the CIO for IT Evolution,” on Tuesday, December 9 at 10 a.m. PT.

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