ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that three executives in the company's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit will participate in four panel discussions at Interop. The business technology conference will be held in New York November 16-20, 2009.
Stephen Elliot, vice president of strategy, will participate in a discussion entitled "Is Automation a Killer Idea or a Career Killer?" on Wednesday, November 18 at 4 p.m. ET. Following is a summary of the session, which will be moderated by Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates.
The ticking time bomb for IT organizations is that today roughly 75
percent of IT resources are consumed maintaining the status quo, and
that percentage creeps up every year. If IT organizations don't make
some fundamental changes they will soon not be able to provide any new
value-added functionality. Automation holds the promise to both
improve quality and free up resources. Most IT organizations have made
only modest attempts to automate as they are fearful of losing control
over IT. The members of this panel will discuss what explicit
functionality IT organizations can safely automate.
Elliot will also participate in a panel entitled "The People, Process And Technology Of Next Generation Data Centers" on Thursday, November 19 at 9 a.m. ET. Following is summary of the session, which will be moderated by Doug Washburn, analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research.
Technologies like virtualization and automation tools are cornerstone
to the next-generation data center (NGDC)--but without the proper
processes and staff skills to manage them, tomorrow's data center will
be no better off than today's. Likewise, even the right people and
process fall short without sufficient technology investment that can
minimize labor-intensive tasks. With that in mind, the NGDC is a
collection of people, process and technology that support one another.
This panel discussion will identify the key people, process and
technology considerations to help data center managers plan for the
NGDC today.
Derick Wong, senior director of product marketing, will participate in a discussion entitled "The Language of the Cloud: Scripting and Automation" on Thursday, November 19 at 9 a.m. Following is a description of the session, which will be moderated by Alistair Croll, principal analyst, Bitcurrent.
In a cloud environment, you don't rack and stack servers anymore;
instead, you click and drag them. This relieves IT operators of many
physical chores, but it creates a new one: server sprawl. To deal with
this, most cloud operations teams rely heavily on scripts that
automate common functions such as setting up servers or migrating
configurations. Those scripts, however, are often tailored to a
particular cloud platform--so the same tools that were supposed to
liberate IT have inadvertently locked it into a particular cloud
environment. If scripting and automation are keys to the success of
cloud models, they're not getting the attention they deserve. This
panel looks at scripting best practices, automation, and
standardization.
Tanvir Hussain, senior vice president of product management, will participate in a panel entitled "The Impact of Cloud Computing on Network Management" on Thursday, November 19 at 10:15 a.m. Following is a summary of the session, which will be moderated by Jim Metzler.
Cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. IT
organizations that implement private clouds need to ensure that when
they migrate a virtual machine (VM) to another server that the VM
retains the same security, storage access and QoS configurations and
policies it had previously. In the case of public cloud services there
are at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the
WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service
providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent
management data be gathered from each of the management domains. This
panel will outline what IT organizations must do to effectively manage
cloud computing.
CA will showcase solutions for business-driven automation, virtualization management and cloud computing, among others, in booth 228.
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