Fast IT! Application Centric Cloud Solutions

Join us at Fast IT! Application Centric Cloud Solutions on 27 October in Zurich. From 13:30 to 14:15 the following session with Prof. Dr. Stella Gatziu Grivas  takes place: «Clouds on the way to transform the Enterprises» Clouds enable the optimization of existing systems to increase operational excellence and drive the business agility towards digitalization. We talk today about the transformation of the business processes, the leverage of the business innovation, the way IT is offered and developed in the company. New roles arise like the cloud broker and new governance structures are established. This session gives an overview of how transformation could take place. Overview: IT organizations are thinking how to cost-effectively meet business requirements on demand, in a fast and simple way while maintaining the existing applications and services reliable, performing and secure. However, on their way towards this goal, the IT organization is facing many challenges that come with the alignment of organizational processes and technology infrastructures to achieve this. How can IT organizations position themselves to meet new business requirements more quickly and more easily? What is required to achieve operational simplicity and flexibility in IT infrastructures while maintaining or even enhancing security requirements? How can the data center enable emerging concepts such as cloud, hybrid cloud and policy-based infrastructures to be used as a unified resource helping the business in generating revenue? Today’s data center architecture must support a highly-mobile workforce, proliferation of devices, data-driven business models, and be capable of seamlessly incorporating new cloud applications and services. At this event, you will learn more about:

• Data center architectures that leverage software-defined and policy-based models
• Orchestration and automation using building blocks for compute and storage infrastructures
• Private and hybrid cloud architecture design
• Opportunities generated by the Cloud Marketplace

Register now: https://eventtouch.eu/ciscoswitzerland/fastit