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If It Only Had a Brain: How to Gain Control Over Risk, Density & Efficiency in Virtual & Cloud Infrastructure

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The critical challenge faced in managing virtual & cloud infrastructure is a lack of control.  The inability to properly understand and control all the moving parts prevents organizations from operating efficiently and achieving desired cost savings and density levels.

The complexity associated with shared infrastructure and mobile workloads, combined with varying technical, business and operational requirements across applications, has left organizations with no choice but to wildly over-provision shared environments in order to keep systems operational and safe.

But consider how different life could be if there was a single brain that could understand all of these factors and leverage them to intelligently guide workload placements and resource allocations, optimizing environments in accordance with the policies, configuration and current and future utilization requirements of the workloads.  And picture this brain being plugged into management tools and staff in order to route these actions to the appropriate systems and owners.  This kind of intelligent control starts with the right analytics.

Who should attend this session?
Cloud managers, virtualization managers, infrastructure managers
What will delegates learn from this session?  Delegates will learn: a)the role of policies in infrastructure management and planning; b)how to model capacity bookings of future application requirements; c)what is required for automation and how to safely enable it.

Why is this issue of interest to delegates?
Data centres are sometimes viewed more as cost centers as opposed to an opportunity to gain efficiency.  This session will help delegates analyze environments in order to gain control and do more with less while minimizing operational risk.

Speaker: Ayman Gabarin

Job title: Vice President, Europe, Middle East & Africa,

Ayman Gabarin has 20 years of experience in various business sectors including enterprise software and industrial services. As vice president, he is responsible for sales and delivery of CiRBA in the EMEA region. Prior to CiRBA, Gabarin was the EMEA Vice President of IT Governance at Compuware Corporation and previously, he launched the EMEA business as Vice President for Changepoint Corporation, an IT Governance software company. As a member of Changepoints executive team, Gabarin grew revenues to 30% of Changepoints global sales resulting in the company’s 2004 acquisition by Compuware.
Gabarin holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and Engineering degree from the University of Toronto.

Watch this session in the Virtualization and the Cloud Theatre on March 01 2012 at 10:00 am