Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference 2016
5 – 8 December | Las Vegas, NV
Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure &
Operations Management Summit 2016
28 – 29 November | London, U.K.
9. Encourage innovation and
build a “can do” culture
Embrace a culture that tells your
team to learn from failure.
10. Measure I&O success against
business goals
Demonstrate the value of I&O to
business leaders with metrics that
reflect the priorities of the business.
8. Think big! Execute in small steps.
Cope with the non-linearity of digital
business with incremental executions.
7. Adopt a “services over
operations” mindset
Support IT as a service with
training, integration and investment
in a hybrid architecture.
6. Collaborate to build
the right teams and skills
Build collaborative agile teams
with IT application leaders.
5. Consider people, process
and technology
Plan strategic cloud initiatives
for success by orchestrating
these three elements.
4. Prepare for future integration
Design private cloud services with
a hybrid interoperability in mind.
3. Invest in your team’s skills
Address skills gaps through talent
development and recruitment to
achieve your vision.
1. Become a broker of cloud services
Go beyond providing to become a good
broker, manager and intermediary.
2. Reduce your hardware mentality
Instead, focus on the services
you need to deliver to help your
business succeed.
Here are the 10 steps to transforming your data center
and I&O strategy over the next two years:
By 2020 a corporate
“no cloud” policy will be as rare
as a “no internet” policy today.
More than half of infrastructure
and operations (I&O) leaders are
facing budget challenges in 2016.
Break through to the opportunities of a distributed, virtual
multivendor environment that delivers business value.
Welcome to the new virtual data center without walls.
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Aaah, freedom!
The data center without walls:
10 steps to transforming your I&O leadership