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October 23, Tuesday
09:45 – 10:45

Cloud computing is transforming IT. The way IT deploys infrastructure, provisions resources, builds applications and provides access to these applications is changing dramatically, promising both greater efficiency and agility. At the same time, many businesses now see data volumes growing so large they break traditional infrastructures – this is what EMC calls Big Data.

Managing Big Data represents a huge challenge for IT, but using analytics to provide insight into Big Data promises to transform business, delivering competitive advantage and breakthrough business value. Cloud computing and Big Data will only be viable if they are underpinned by a foundation of trust – trust that the infrastructure will be available 24x7 and trust that data will not be compromised by the latest advanced threat.

Brian Gallagher will discuss these trends and the changes necessary to move to a new model – one which requires IT to transform to an internal service provider, shifting focus from infrastructure cost to business agility.