Beyond Virtualisation - The Roadmap to 2012
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CIO Breakfast Briefing
8:30am – 10:30am
Brisbane | 22 July | Sofitel Brisbane
Sydney | 23 July | Four Seasons Hotel
Canberra | 24 July | The Hyatt
Facts:
- Enterprises are discovering that virtualisation technologies, as currently deployed, do not completely address the issue of managing a complex business infrastructure
- Virtualisation is not the end game in itself but more an enabling technology, a pre-requisite for the delivery of innovation
- Automation is the next step in the virtualisation wave. It will make technology do the business's bidding, drive growth and enable resources & funds to be freed up to focus on innovation
- The complexity of managing modern virtualised IT infrastructure demands advances in IT automation. Automating a business's IT infrastructure will allow it to sense and respond to changes in circumstances, dialing capacity up or down as needed
Attend and discover:
- What happens after virtualisation
- The benefits automation drives
- When automated infrastructures will emerge
- What the roadmap to 2012 looks like
- How to deliver an automated architecture
- How to maximise your investment in virtualisation
Remarks from last years attendees:
"It was all excellent, both content & venue"
"It provided a good overall understanding of where virtualisation is heading"
"Provided a fantastic framework for positioning and developing virtualisation technologies and directions"
Attendees at the 2007 Virtualisation Breakfast gave it top marks:
- 98% said they would recommend attendance to a colleague
- 98% of attendees rated the event Good to Excellent
- 96% of attendees rated the event as Valuable to Extremely Valuable
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AGENDA
8:30am – 9:15am
Phil Sargeant
Managing Vice President, Gartner
Virtualisation & Beyond. The Roadmap To 2012
Through 2012, virtualisation will likely be the highest-impact trend in infrastructure and operations, impacting everything from how you plan, what you buy, how you deploy, how you manage and how you charge.
As virtualisation matures and becomes the default, the "next big thing" will be automation. Automation will drive incredible change within organisations as constraints are removed and management can drive innovation and growth knowing that IT can respond to the ever changing priorities of the business.
Phil will give a view of the technologies, developments, challenges & opportunities likely to be encountered or required as organisations look to maximise the benefits of automation.
9:15am – 10:00am
Ben Robinson
ANZ Services Lead, Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite
Automation Benefits & Challenges - Delivering The Automated Infrastructure
Automating a business's IT infrastructure to run the critical and mundane aspects of IT management will allow it to sense and respond to changes in circumstances, moving capacity where it's needed, provisioning new servers and applications as demand spikes and running backups during slower periods.
Virtual provisioning software will make provisioning and the re-purposing of infrastructure an automatic process, changing which servers are running what application and how those servers are connected to network and storage, It will also enable capacity to be 'dialled up' or 'dialled down. within minutes.
Ben will discuss the benefits and challenges involved in building the automated infrastructure likely to transform the IT environment.
10:00am – 10:30am
Panel Discussion
A panel of experts will share their first hand experienced and respond to questions in an interactive Q&A session.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
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Phil Sargeant
Phil is Managing Vice-President for Gartner. His primary research specialty is storage hardware systems and storage management software. His secondary focus is server hardware and server operating systems.
Phil monitors and comments on the major storage hardware technologies and major storage vendors. He also monitors the major server vendors, server technologies and major operating platforms including z/OS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Phil liaises with vendors and end-users, providing advice and guidance about the storage market including storage consolidation, virtualisation and the technologies associated with Real Time Infrastructure.
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Ben Robinson
Ben is ANZ Services lead for Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite, with responsibility for strategy, solution development and program execution.
Ben's considerable IT experience spans data networks, TCP/IP solutions and voice and data converged solutions, from technical design through to implementation.
His recent focus has been on infrastructure optimisation, helping organisations better manage and respond to the increasing cost and complexity of their IT environments as they move down the road to RTI maturity.
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PANELLISTS
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David Kennedy
David is a CIO with more than 20 years experience in Information Technology and Business, and a career spanning various cross functional, cross industry management roles, both in the corporate and public sectors, including manufacturing, government, information technology, pharmaceuticals, and oil and chemical.
Currently David is the CIO of the NSW Office of State Revenue, with his last role prior to this David was General Manager Technology Operations as NSW Police. As a CIO, he has experienced many of the same issues as his clients, hence is able to offer a unique perspective and appreciation of what is required and how best to work with them to ensure any advice is driven by the best fit to bring your ideas to realisation. Some of his focus areas include; General business management, IT and business strategy, ICT business transformation, complexity rationalisation, change management, governance and business continuity, just to name a few of the favourites.
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Allan Davies
Allan Davies is 30 year veteran in the IT industry having spent the past 20 years as a CIO within the Retail, Telecommunication and Manufacturing sectors. During this time have led IT teams through no less than 6 Mergers and Acquisitions, each involving extensive integration and harmonization of disparate infrastructures (cultural and electronic).
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Tony Marles
Tony has held management roles in the ICT industry for the past 20 years, and is currently responsible for the effective design, implementation and operation of the information technology systems within the Port of Brisbane Corporation. He is also responsible for corporate telecommunications and the provision of support and project management of ICT services. Recent IT implementations at the Port of Brisbane include rollout of the Objective document management system, Microsoft CRM 3.0 and the development of a state wide Maritime Security Identification Card system.
Tony was also instrumental in the development and implementation of PortNet, a wireless ISP service owned by the Corporation that is providing wireless broadband Internet connectivity to many businesses located at the Port and surrounding precincts.
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