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09/14/2006, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Speaker: Shayne Higdon, Vice President, Product Marketing, DataSynapse.
An increasing number of global enterprises are introducing IT initiatives --- even entire business units - around shared services. Shared services offer organizations a way to realize economies of scale, ultimately reducing the cost of back-office or corporate support functions. Application virtualization presents a significant opportunity to reduce the cost and complexity associated with managing enterprise applications across a shared, global infrastructure.
In this session you will learn:
1. Benefits and challenges of a shared services model
2. SOA in a shared services model - Help or hurt?
3. Automating the data center when sharing services
4. Technologies that enable shared services - Server and Application Virtualization
5. Why application virtualization is fundamental to a shared services approach


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