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Data Centre World VisitorBusiness Transformation, the role of data centres in cloud computing
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Business transformation comes in many forms, but in all cases these efforts have the stated goal of driving overall enterprise value. There are multiple ways to drive enterprise value, including, but not limited to, driving revenue growth, improving operating margin, increasing asset efficiency, or developing company capabilities such as business agility to more quickly meet customer needs.
The new paradigm of cloud computing is truly transformative, and is helping companies accomplish many of the value-enhancing activities outlined above, both on the revenue and on the operating margin/efficiency side. This new paradigm is being enabled in a large way by multi-tenant, network neutral data centres, where a rich array of network, cloud and IT service providers are helping enterprises re-think their IT strategies toward value enhancing activities. Key to this IT-enabled business transformation is a secure, highly-reliable, network rich data centre where this virtual business enablement marketplace lives as a part of a cost efficient global ecosystem.
Speaker: Eric Schwartz
Job title: President
Company: Equinix Europe
Eric Schwartz joined Equinix in 2006 and has played various senior-level management roles with the company. He spearheaded Equinix’s expansion to Europe – including the 2007 acquisition of IXEurope – and the ongoing integration of Equinix’s European operations into its global business. As President of
Equinix Europe, Mr. Schwartz oversees the management, strategy, and growth for Equinix in Europe. Mr. Schwartz came to Equinix from BellSouth where he was Vice President of IP Communications and led the development and implementation of advanced technologies including VoIP. Prior to joining BellSouth, he was Executive Vice President of Harold A. Dawson Company, an Atlanta-based real estate development company.
Mr. Schwartz also is a former member of McKinsey & Co., where he consulted with telecommunications and financial services companies in the United States and Asia on strategic issues.
Mr. Schwartz earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and was an undergraduate at Stanford University where he earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Economics.
Watch this session in the Virtualization and the Cloud Theatre on February 29 2012 at 1:45 pm
