Speakers: Melanie Posey,
Research Vice President,
Hosting & Managed Network Services, IDC
Christopher Cullan,
Product Marketing Manager, Business Services, InfoVista
Cloud-based services represent a game-changing IT resource delivery model that is gradually transforming enterprise IT procurement and operations strategies. However, change is disruptive and enterprises must balance their interest in leveraging the benefits of externally provided "virtual IT" against the challenging realities of data security, service assurance, performance management and IT control.
Enterprises are seriously exploring adopting cloud delivery models for a range of IT infrastructure, business applications and corporate communications functions, but the approach to cloud sourcing is often disjointed with scant consideration given to the end-to-end view.
Join us for a review of the critical role the network plays in the emerging cloudscape and to learn about:
- Communication Service Provider’s unique ability to tie together the enterprises' increasingly multi-sourced IT resources into performance-optimized delivery platforms for distributed infrastructure, applications and business processes
- Bridging the gap between network and IT centers -- on a unified and subscriber-oriented view of the service, its performance and interdependencies -- for the size and scale of CSP-based services
- Service visualization and how this is critical to provide the same levels of visibility and functionality — the "touch and feel" — as internally managed systems