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09/12/2006, 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker:
Jikku Venkat, PhD, CTO, United Devices.
Many business processes today are tied to applications running on a fixed, static IT infrastructure, which IT organizations manage without a complete understanding of the underlying business process. Those business processes that are built around enterprise applications like SAP, Siebel, etc. are implicitly constrained by their required infrastructures in many ways. IT cannot respond quickly to changing business needs that require adjustments to the infrastructure - in fact, change management is a manual process that can take months to complete. In addition, the infrastructure itself is being quickly commoditized and very cheap to acquire. However, the management of the infrastructure continues to be very expensive and is a significant contributor to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Grid technologies are being increasingly applied to effectively tackle these constraints. By managing the infrastructure as a Grid service, IT organizations can respond very rapidly to changing business needs. The actual infrastructure is completely transparent to the business users. Application characteristics are continually monitored and infrastructure changes are initiated automatically, thereby reducing the TCO and improving service levels. The resulting infrastructure is variable, dynamic and extremely cost-effective for the organization.
This presentation discusses in detail how Grid technology, working in concert with other technologies like server virtualization and consolidation, can enable this transformation.
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