Frank Gens, SVP & Chief Analyst, IDC Richard Villars, VP, Storage & IT Executive Strategies, IDC Robert Mahowald, Research Vice President, SaaS & Cloud Services, IDC Dave McNally, IT Executive Advisor, IDC State of Technology: A Round of Lightning Insights with IDC Analysts
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Frank Gens, SVP & Chief Analyst, IDC
Richard Villars, VP, Storage & IT Executive
Strategies, IDC
Robert Mahowald, Research Vice President, SaaS &
Cloud Services, IDC
Dave McNally, IT Executive Advisor, IDC
State of Technology: A Round of
Lightning Insights with IDC Analysts
IT Industry Transformation
Frank Gens
Infrastructure & Data
Rick Villars
Applications & Platforms
Robert Mahowald
IT Leadership
Dave McNally
The Agenda
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Cloud’s About Much More Than the Cloud The “Third Platform” for IT industry growth is emerging
Millions of new apps and services will be built on it
These apps and services will be built on innovative mash-ups of cloud, mobile devices, mobile apps, social technologies, big data/analytics, and more
IT Industry Transformation
Frank Gens
Approaching Limits of Today’s Converged IT
Shared Cache Drives the Next DC Makeover
2. Today’s Converged IT Solutions Aren’t the Endpoint of Your Data Center Transformation
Infrastructure & Data
Rick Villars Target loads per server for large enterprises and SPs
Silos Convergence
3. “Bring Your Own License” Means Real Deployment Choice
Applications & Platforms
Robert Mahowald Lowers the cost barrier for SPs to offer hosting
services for major apps (Microsoft, SAP, Oracle)
Eases audit/compliance requirements for IT orgs Opens the door to place licensed SW in multiple locations for single cost – AND use ISV clouds Smooths transitions to using Cloud
38% of 2011 cloud survey respondents:
“Current SW EA & license agreements are primary obstacles to greater Cloud use”