VMware Kicks Off 2013 With Predictions For Cloud Computing
February 14, 2013
Grazed from Tempo. Author: Editorial Staff.
VMware, Inc. has outlined the trends in 2013 that will transform for businesses in the Philippines. “We’ve seen growing adoption of our leading technologies amongst the country’s largest private and public sector organization, and expect to see more companies leverage cloud to significantly lower the total cost of ownershipand speed up their ability to deploy new applications,” said Emmanuel Portugal, country manager, VMware in the Philippines.
“Specifically, we see the adaptability of CIOs, the emergence of the Software-Defined Datacenter, mobility and adoption for greater disaster preparedness to drive cloud adoption at scale and make 2013 a year of transformation for IT and businesses.” The role of the CIO is evolving as companies require them to be IT leaders who drive substantive change throughout the entire organization. This means the latter can no longer operate as cost centers, but must employ service-based IT thinking to positively impact their organization’s productivity, competitiveness, and agility…
“One of the goals of cloud computing is to enable IT-as-a-service to corporate users. This means that IT has to be its own business, understanding its costs and charging back to the business for the services it ‘sells’ to its corporate users – all while maintaining SLAs and other service qualities that any ‘paying’ customer of a business would expect,” said Portugal. In this new era of cloud computing, organizations need to take a holistic approach to planning, building and operating their infrastructure. While virtualization has dramatically reduced IT costs while improving efficiency, business units today demand rapid access to IT resources to support faster time-to-market for projects…
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