IT Professionals are embracing strategies that align with organizational priorities to protect and optimize operations, increase productivity, and provide a technological platform for renewed growth and enhanced service. These strategies include consolidation and business continuity, and emerging trends such as Service-Oriented Architectures and On-demand Computing.
Enterprise data centers in the State Govt. marketspace are evolving rapidly in order to meet five main business requirements:
1. Reduce capital and operating expenses
2. Increase agility to support changing priorities
3. Lower risk and compliance with new regulations
4. Improved availability and performance service levels for existing and new applications
5. Enhanced control of the organization's growing information
The evolving Data Center Network Architecture presented in this session is backed by best practice designs, involves partnerships with industry leaders, and designed to helps customers:
&Mac183; Lower TCO through consolidation and virtualization of computing and storage resources
&Mac183; Improved support for business continuance strategies
&Mac183; Enhanced application performance and availability
&Mac183; Improved integrated data center security
Additionally, one of the biggest challenges is finding the money to invest in innovation to drive new business processes. Today, 70% of IT investments are spent on ongoing infrastructure operations, leaving only 30% available for new investments in applications and business process transformation. An important question to ask is How can operational efficiency be increased in order to relieve funding for more strategic investments?
Speaker Bio: (Richard Salerno)
Dick Salerno is the Manager of Data Center Consulting for US Enterprise Sales - Cisco Systems. Dick and his team consult with Cisco customers on data center issues involving, consolidation, migration, and business continuance. Dick has been with Cisco for 12 years and has held, in addition to his current position, a number of technical and managerial positions including Corporate Consulting Engineering, Senior SE Manager in the Southeast US, and Manager of the Enterprise Technology Leadership program. Prior to joining Cisco, Dick was with IBM for 20 plus years holding technical and managerial positions in Engineering, Software Development, Systems Engineering, and Technical Education. Dick holds a BSEE degree from George Washington University.
