The Next Wave in IT:  Agile Storage Services

Jack Domme, Chief Operating Officer, Hitachi Data Systems

In the wake of today's business climate coupled with dwindling IT budgets, IT organizations are being groomed towards a fundamental shift in the deployment and management of IT assets, the so-called era of "IT Modernization".  Gone are the days of siloed production implementations: IT organizations must evolve and modernize these traditional practices to provide better business agility achieved through the use and re-use of common services.  This session will explore how a services-oriented approach to storage, enabled by controller-based Storage Virtualization, can help IT organizations leverage and enhance existing storage assets with the latest services that can be quickly adapted to meet changing business needs in order to achieve "Return on Assets" (ROA).  Attendees will  hear from an industry thought leader about how a common, integrated platform of storage and data services technologies can enable IT organizations to reap true measurable value out of its investments and measure the return it gains from assets already deployed in the infrastructure, while also providing better guidance for future IT asset acquisitions.

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