Edward Newman is the Director of the Cloud and Virtual Data Center service line in EMC Consulting. Ted leads a team of consulting professionals who are helping clients around the world to define and implement cloud and data center strategies, including virtualization, consolidation and IT service management capabilities.
Ted has nearly 20 years' experience with managerial, consulting, and systems engineering in the areas of cloud computing, storage, open systems, IT service management and program management. He has worked with clients in a range of industries, including information technology, insurance and financial, manufacturing and defense, both at EMC as well as Accenture.
There’s been a lot of interest in converged infrastructure platforms by IT organizations, and these can be a great foundation for a cloud infrastructure across the enterprise. However, our experience working with clients on realizing their converged infrastructure suggests that you need to think about this not just as a technology deployment, but also a catalyst to transform to a cloud operating model.
If you’re going to meet business expectations for improved IT agility, you’d better make your processes as agile as the technology can support. What does all this mean? And how can you leverage converged infrastructure to achieve such an operating model?
I recently did a 20 minute slidecast with Rich Brueckner of Inside-Cloud, and we discussed best practices for realizing converged infrastructure and the drivers for it.
Take a look/listen and let me know what you think:
