Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations & Data Center Summit
Agenda of Summit: Accelerate Growth, Drive Transformation, Achieve Operational Excellence
As the nexus of IT forces such as cloud computing, mobility, social media and big data start being relevant in India, IT professionals are not only evaluating alternate ways of procuring and managing IT services but new ways to drive business growth. Infrastructure &
Operations (I&O) professionals have the responsibility to inspire their businesses by being agile, reliable, efficient and highly collaborative by striking a balance between the traditional and the futuristic approaches of managing technology with an eye on containing the cost of IT.
This second edition of IT Infrastructure Operations and Data Centre Summit in India euiped IT and I&O leaders with the capability of making smart infrastructure investments which can help to achieve operational excellence without ignoring need to optimize the cost structure.
Frameworks on the understanding the business value of cloud, mobility and big data coupled with best practices of deploying virtualization, emerging infrastructure technologies and their ability to deliver promising return on investment, was presented in this 2 day Summit.
The Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations & Data Center Summit offered a breadth and depth of knowledge that uniquely met the requirements of data center professionals across disciplines. Through prescriptive, practical advice — complemented by strategic recommendations — the 3-track agenda addressed today's not-to-be ignored trends, technologies and imperatives including:
Servers and Operating Systems
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Storage
CtrlS was silver sponsor for the event.
Global High on Cloud Summit About the Summit:
Anyone who follows technology trends has undoubtedly heard the term “cloud service”
thrown around a few gazillion times over the past few years. Cloud Computing has emerged as a big surprise when people were struggling to get rid of the troubles involved with traditional web hosting and computing solutions for their business ventures.
32 Cloud Computing anywhere across the globe describes delivery of hosted services through the internet. People are shifting their business applications from traditional software models to the mighty cloud. You can hardly predict what would be our future if cloud computing wouldn’t be there to manoeuvre establishments safely towards profitable positions.
The Information Technology market in BRIC is to grow at a CAGR of 14.1% over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this markets growth is the increasing IT spending in BRIC. The IT market in BRIC market has also been witnessing increasing IT spending by banking sector.
Through The Global High on Cloud Summit the issues, concerns, latest trends, new technology and upcoming innovations on the Cloud platform were addressed and it provided an open forum and opportunity to everyone in the industry to come together and share their ideas & updates and provide a global outlook.
Key Topics:
Trends & Challenges – Cloud as a technology, current market trends & practices for implementation.
Regulatory & Compliance major concern on Cloud! – Cloud computing seems simple in concept, and indeed, simplicity of operation, deployment and licensing are its most appealing assets.
Monitoring Cloud – Performance stats on the application, Unified ontology of Cloud Computing, Cloud Scalability, Controls & compliance.
Big Data Cloud Computing – Big Data is a relatively new phenomenon. As with any new adoption, the adoption of big data depends on the tangible benefits it provides to Business.
Mobile Cloud Computing – The analysis of the impact of mobile computing on the various services, Mobile cloud computing gives new company chances for mobile network providers.
Security in Cloud – Applications and services based on cloud computing are dramatically emerging. However, in order to enjoy the wide utilization of cloud computing through wired/wireless networking, providing sufficient assurance of information security such as confidentiality, authentication, non-repudiation, and integrity is the critical factor.
CtrlS was official green cloud partner
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Conclusion
The cloud has the potential to become the preferred mechanism for software delivery, bringing more choices to organisations when selecting an application provider, and resulting in fewer reasons to maintain their own applications on-premise. As such, cloud adoption will increase dramatically; and when moving to the cloud, businesses will need to think carefully about how they will ensure that cloud providers can meet promised service-level agreements (SLAs).
We are also going to see a higher rate of adoption of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) within the workforce in 2013. These shifts should inspire enterprises to analyse and plan for what kind of internal applications they will need in order to enable and mobilise around cloud within the business.
CtrlS is the only company in India whose primary focus is on Datacenter business whereas, other providers like Netmagic, Sify, Reliance, Tulip etc., considers Datacenter services as part of their business. This clearly says that CtrlS is the only company in country which takes Datacenter business seriously and should leverage on this advantage.
Despite being the hottest buzzword around, cloud adoption has been rather slow-moving, accounting for a tiny 1.4% of the total IT spends of enterprises in India. Industry concerns about cost are not deep enough to impact this number alone. The truth is, security in the cloud is a real concern, and with an expected spike from USD 400 million to USD 4.5 billion by 2015, it is a good time to put to rest some of the biggest concerns Enterprises might have in this regard.
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Recommendations
After analysing complete data following key areas company need to focus on:
1. As most of the companies are already practicing Mailing, Reporting & Accounting IT services, company have to aggressively promote the Cloud Services offerings.
2. About 50% of companies we surveyed are having Data backup & Storage facility so these companies should be approached for other services like DR, Cloud and Virtualization.
3. Around 48% of the companies we surveyed were having data backup & storage facilities. The companies usually keep backup in CDs, DVDs, flash drives and hard drives.
These traditional devices don’t last for more than 5 years. These companies should be targeted for pay per use Data backup & storage solutions.
4. 40% of the companies were having insufficient budget allocated for IT spending, these companies should be advised on Opex models offered by CtrlS Datacenters Ltd.
5. Most of the companies use cloud solutions for scalability and flexibility. Most companies find security features on cloud as real concern.
6. Small or midsize businesses (SMBs) are the most likely to adopt public IaaS/utility hosting. CtrlS should consider preconfigured solutions for the SMB segment.
7. In the long term, SLA adherence and service provider quality and support will determine total service costs, and the level of agility and elasticity end users can plan for in their infrastructures. CtrlS should ensure that they strictly follow the agreed-on SLAs.
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