Unifying Business and IT – Bursting to the Cloud

Unifying Business and IT – Bursting to the Cloud Scott Houston CEO & Founder, GreenButton

Stephen Spector Cloud Evangelist, Dell

CloudExpo West 2012

Agenda

• Executive Suite • Here Comes the Cloud• CIO becomes the CEO• The 3 biggest issues for the new “CIO”

Executive Suite

CEO

CFO

CIO

Here Comes the Cloud

A CIO storyJust when you thought everything was under control

2003 – 10 weeks to go before Launch

50 IT staff500 Graphic Artists1000+ Workstations2000+ Processors10,000 Render Jobs per day50,000 Cinemas booked for Dec 18th launch

and……..

Battle of Pelennor Fields

Evolution to CEO

• The future was on-demand computing

• 2007 founded GreenButton• 2011 Microsoft Azure

partner of the year• 2012 partnered with Dell to

port GreenButton to vCloud• Launch GreenButton Cloud

Fabric TODAY !!!

3 Big Issues for new CIOsInstant IT• No is not an option - how much

(resources) and when• Massive Capex projects are

disappearing (and so are the CIOs that endorse them)

• IT is strategic and not tactical• The rise of the Enterprise Architect and

“devops”

3 Big Issues for new CIOs

Business Transformation in Global Age• IT is no longer an expense, it is an investment• Cloud will drive new business decisions rather

than just enable them.• Fail fast business models, new innovations can

be deployed instantly

3 Big Issues for new CIOs

Consumerization of IT • Consolidate rogue agents• Bring your own device• Multi Cloud - avoid lock in

Come see us tomorrow

Game Changer – HPC in the Cloud for

Everyone

Track 4 8:15 am

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