Key Highlights
Sajji Thopil
Wipro, Practice Head, Platforms and StorageCapacity based computing is the way to go forward rather than continue with the islands of computing that exist now. According to a Gartner study, the average server utilization is six percent. It is high time we leverage that. Organizations will see a huge benefit in operating expenses as servers can be consolidated and running costs like electricity and real estate come down, " observes saji Thoppil of Wipro.He also pointed out that when combined with virtualization, capacity led computing has other advantages too. Disaster recovery and high availability could be listed as some." It is possible to pool in computing power into one virtual capacity and provision compute power on-demand to specific applications," he added. Wipro provides custom modeled data centers that are exactly in tune with the customer requirements, right from the deployment stage, to, the number of years requested for. Thus as a vendor, they are able to narrow down the choices to what suits best amongst the varied options.
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Yogesh Rao
Product Manager, NovellYogesh Rao, product manager, identity & access management, Novell, fielded questions about the importance of identity and access management and how it can help organizations cut costs at a time like this. Within the organization, there are many areas in IT governance perspectives. Risk management, he said, is an important part of any company's security agenda. It doesn't matter which vertical, what size or where an organization is from, the need for risk management solutions is all the same: it is important. According to him, organizations need to get out of the 'we will manage somehow once a breach happens' mode.
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