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Top priorities include:
• Aligning the I&O strategy with that of
• the business
• Talent management, acquisition and retention
• Cost optimization
• Getting the most out of existing infrastructure
• while moving toward a digital future
• Determining the right amount of cloud
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& Operations
Top priorities include:
• Emerging trends and technologies
• Moving the I&O strategy forward
• Cost optimization
• Legacy technology and applications vs. new
• and emerging trends
• Improving people, processes and technologies
• Driving innovation and agility
• Delivering value more rapidly
• Being a genuine partner to the business
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IT Infrastructure
Top priorities include:
• Managing a bimodal operation
• Handling legacy infrastructure
• Creating an agile infrastructure
• Striking the optimal balance of on-premises
• and public cloud
• Delivering an experience embraced by
• customers and employees
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IT Operations
Top priorities include:
• Supporting day-to-day IT services
• Ensuring availability, capacity and performance
• Maintaining the IT service desk
• Supporting DevOps and cloud operations
• Engaging and inspiring today’s workforce
• Scaling the administrators to better handle rising • • • service-level expectations
• Delivering reliable existing systems while
• navigating the changes needed to support
• new digital workloads
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Data Center
Top priorities include:
• Data center security
• Cloud migration (public/private/hybrid)
• On/off-premises and colocation environments
• Accelerating innovation while “keeping the
• lights on”
• Business resiliency/disaster recovery
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and Networking
Top priorities include:
• Implementing software-defined (SDN, SDS,
• SDSec, etc.)
• Ensuring networking availability despite
• hyperconvergence and security threats
• Modernizing systems, technologies
• and strategies
• Supporting Mode 1 of bimodal IT while
• acknowledging the need for a more agile Mode 2
• Managing storage growth
• Determining the role of hyperconverged systems
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IT stakeholders
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applicable to
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bolster understanding
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