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Day 2 Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 04:15 pm - 05:00 pm
Peter Armstrong (BMC Corporate Strategist) Peter Armstrong is the Corporate Strategist for BMC Software, Inc., with specific responsibility for the increasingly important domain of how business and information technology need to work together. Peter has helped to develop the company’s Business Service Management (BSM) strategy. Peter works for BMC Corporate in the US, but is based in the UK. He spends most of his time travelling the world meeting and talking to customers, in order to understand where the marketplace is going. Peter is a renowned speaker, and is well known throughout the world as a presenter, educator and author. His hobbies include golf, music and Geocaching, and he is currently publishing his first novel. The Virtualisation Garden The modern CIO is being bombarded with business requirements on one side and new technologies like Virtualisation and Automation on the other. The business is expecting a rapid agile IT system, which preferably does not cost anything! In a perfect world, the CIO would probably throw everything away and start again, but very few of us are blessed with that opportunity, and hence have to make the best out of the complex systems we have inherited. Peter will use practical examples from round the world to show how to exploit these new technologies in a business driven fashion in order to deliver the IT system that best suits the business and the marketplace. IT is like a garden you have just inherited. Which bits do you prune, which bits do you fertilise? Take aways Experience of what is happening round the world. Benefits Learning what is truly important - namely that IT and business must work hand in hand with realistic expectations. Style High level, non technical speak. Explaining technology from a business rather than a technical point of view. |
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