Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Local Briefing - Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Gartner Infrastructure & Operations Local Briefing - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 22nd May 2009.

Date & Location

Friday 22nd May
8:30am to 11:00am

Westin Hotel Kuala Lumpur
199, Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

RM 80 per person (inclusive taxes)

Infrastructure & Operations

Session 1:

Trends in Virtualization and Cloud Computing and Their Impact on Data Centres
Dave Cappuccio, Research VP

In today’s economic climate companies of all sizes are focused on improving operational efficiencies in their data centres and spending capital only where absolutely necessary.

This presentation will look at the increased use of virtualization as well as emerging technologies like cloud computing that may help IT continue the trend to more efficient operations.

We will also look at current best practices in using existing data centre technologies.

Key Issues:

What are the trends in today’s data centres, and where will the most improvement in efficiencies be found?

What technologies are emerging that will have the greatest impact on data centres?

What best practices can data centres employ to get the most from their existing environments?

Session 2:

IT Operations: Cost Optimisation Without Sacrificing Service or Agility
Milind Govekar, Research VP

IT Operations have always had the pressure to “do more with less”.

With increased enterprise focus on cost containment, IT Operations needs to determine what are the immediate opportunities to optimise cost and at the same time ensuring that the maturity improvements in people, process and technology continue.

These improvements will result in better service delivery and agility at optimised costs to improve their alignment with business needs and priorities.

Key Issues:

What steps should IT Operations take towards cost optimisation in Organisation and Planning?

What is the importance of process and process frameworks in cost optimisation?

What technologies and approaches provide the best opportunity to optimise costs?

Agenda

8.30am Registration & breakfast
8.55am Welcome & introduction
9.00am Session One
9.45am Q&A
9.55am Break
10.05am Session Two
10.50am Q&A
11.00am Event Close

For more information contact gartner.briefingsapac@gartner.com

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