Key Challenges

As a CIO, how can you improve the health of your datacentres and communications & Networking infrastructure to ensure they are ready for the challenges of Cloud Computing, Business & Economic Uncertainties that force you to do more with less, and scalable and flexible enough to meet changing business needs?

On the datacentre front, the demand for more computing power and electricity, better cooling solutions, and facilities that can grow with an organisation is creating a crisis in datacentres around the world. Simply adding more servers and turning up the air conditioning is not feasible. Instead, numerous organisations are planning to cope with this crisis by building new facilities or making significant changes to their existing sites.

They are aiming to optimise their datacentres - not only to accommodate more hardware, but also to meet business objectives such as cost reduction, productivity increases, new business processes, improving resiliency and security and addressing corporate and governmental mandates.

On the communications & networking front, capabilities today offer organizations almost unlimited opportunities to create business advantage by conducting business anywhere, anytime, using multiple types of devices and communications. Organizations have the potential to create and support innovative new business models-from advanced collaboration environments to customer self-service to mobile workforce support. Yet knowing how and where to start can be challenging.

At Biztech2.com CIO Thought Leaders’ Forum: Dynamic Enterprise Essentials, a select group of CIOs will discuss and debate these Essentials for their enterprises--which if leveraged well can ensure their organisations are dynamic and agile. Along with subject matter experts from IBM, the aim would be forge a broad consensus on how CIOs can transform their organisations into Dynamic Enterprises through a smarter strategy that encompasses the essentials of datacentre transformation and communications & networking.

Talking Points

Some of the issues that will be dealt with during this CIO Thought Leaders’ Forum would include:

• Existing Datacentre challenges.

• Is Transformation the answer?

• How Smarter Datacentres can align IT with business requirements at lower TCO

• Can Smarter Datacentres mitigate operational risk?

• How Dynamic Infrastructure can drive business innovation for competitive advantage.
  

• How can CIOs use communications and networking to achieve strategic business advantage?

• Mobile workforce strategies.

• Managing the proliferation of end user devices with voice, video and data capabilities.

• Building the right networking environment to optimize employee collaboration that drives up organisational productivity.

• Smarter strategies to reduce capital investments and costs.

• Getting the most cost-effective performance from networks and datacenters.

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