The Living Data Center: Creating a More Flexible Enterprise

Sponsor: Bull, Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Rakesh Kumar, Bruno Pinna
Type: Video (31 minutes)

Ask CIO’s what the top infrastructure priority is and the answer often comes back as reducing complexity.  Reduced complexity can be a gateway to reduced costs, greater flexibility, and better alignment of IT with business processes. But the bigger question is how do we get there?

Watch this new webcast “The Living Data Center:  Creating a More Flexible Enterprise” and hear from Rakesh Kumar, Research Vice President, from Featured Analyst Firm, Gartner Inc. and Bruno Pinna, Marketing Director, Bull, Architect of an Open World, as they discuss the how you can reduce complexity, increase efficiency and lower costs through a more flexible data center. Additionally, our panel of experts will break down the challenges and best practices for establishing a more cost-effective, efficient, and flexible IT environment and help you determine how to find the right solution for your unique IT and business needs.

In this age of the digital economy, the Data Center must be able to keep pace with the organization's business activities as they evolve. However, legal constraints, security requirements, the new imperative for sustainable development, and the way technologies themselves are evolving with multi-core architectures becoming widespread and server density rising rapidly are all significant challenges for the IT department.

A new approach to the Data Center is now essential. The aim is embrace this inherent diversity, and help the organization achieve greater flexibility: this is the age of the Living Data Center.

Join your colleagues today for an informative discussion on creating a more flexible and cost efficient data center. Go now.

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About Rakesh Kumar

Rakesh Kumar is a vice president in Gartner Research, where he specializes in large-scale enterprise computing strategies. With more than 18 years of international experience, he is a recognized leader in data center architectures, infrastructure, high availability and operational processes. Mr. Kumar is also leading the research in Data Center power and cooling issues and is an established authority in environmental and 'Green' IT strategies. Mr. Kumar joined Gartner in April 2005 with the acquisition of META Group, where he was senior vice president and co-research director (EMEA). In this position, apart from his core research areas, he drove changes in the European research organization and was instrumental in delivering META Group’s leading Operations Excellence transformation program. Before META Group, he was EMEA marketing manager for Hewlett-Packard’s commercial Unix and NT business. Mr. Kumar has also held various positions with IBM in software development, sales and consultancy management.

About Bruno Pinna
Bruno Pinna is Marketing Director at Bull. He joined Bull in 1997, and since then has been responsible for driving Bull key initiatives on Intel technologies as well as open systems. Prior to joining Bull, Mr. Pinna worked for Tandem, in various technical and marketing management positions, specializing in the deployment of highly scalable, mission-critical IT environments for key markets such as finance and telecommunications. Mr. Pinna started his career in 1983 at Sligos (now part of Atos-Origin), where he was involved in the early developments of smart card technology. Mr. Pinna holds an engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, one of the leading telecommunications and IT engineering schools in France.