Today, IT leaders are familiar with the value and benefits of hybrid hosting models and even agile-friendly environments, but what about application portability? Rob Lerner, Vice President of Sales and Cloud Strategies at DataBank, stresses the concept of application portability and shows how it can help companies generate a win-win-win in terms of cost, performance, and geography.
Aligning Asset Management in a Fluid IT Landscape
Given that the IT infrastructure of today nearly always spans outside of a centralized model, the challenge is how to manage an incredibly fluid, frequently mixed, and deeply cloud-enabled landscape – from desktop to data center, to edge, to the cloud. Jim Dowson of Park View Managed Services, deliberates how some IT Asset Management (ITAM) tools are no longer fit for purpose in the digital age where agility, speed, access, and automation are pre-requisites for widescale transformational app rollouts.
Critical Facilities Summit
The Critical Facilities Summit helps professionals responsible for critical facilities infrastructure improve reliability and efficiency by providing best practices in operations, design and construction as well as insight into key technologies. It is the only conference for facility personnel that work in critical environments. The 7th annual Summit includes 25 educational sessions, tours, workshops and […]
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