May you live in interesting times, goes one of three Chinese proverbs. These are not only interesting times but also adverse ones for CIOs at most enterprises. There's a perpetual sense of that need to deliver flexibility in the dynamic environments; the need to save costs by optimizing data center resources; in short yes, that dictum again: 'Do More with Less.'
Is a combination of pay-as-you-go computing, increasingly via cloud networks, and virtualization the silver bullet? Probably not yet, but EMC, a global leader in storage solutions, and Dell, among the world's largest makers of computers, say it is a more potent, and an increasingly reliable, alternative to expensive hardware.
Key Highlights
Manoj Chugh
President - India & SAARC, Director- Global Accounts, Asia Pacific and Japan, EMCManoj Chugh, a 27-year veteran of the information and communication technology industry, is EMC's president for India & SAARC and director for global accounts for the Asia Pacific and Japan. An advocate of data center infrastructure consolidation to improve efficiency, Chugh sees virtualization, data de-duplication and tiering as important tools. They are steps that enterprises are already taking on their way to fully utilizing the power of cloud computing, he says.
Sameer Garde
Country GM, Dell IndiaSameer Garbe, Country GM, Dell India, favors a 'cap-and-grow' approach to investments in datacenter infrastructure as against a 'rip-and-replace' strategy. Be it virtualization or migrating to cloud networks, cap what you already have and grow by switching to the better solutions and technologies, Garbe advises.
This gives CIOs the ability to limit up-front expenses on expensive hardware, while allowing them to keep pace with the development of a promising technology as its application reaches increasing levels of maturity. Those applications that are naturally amenable to being migrated to cloud networks may be a good place to start with, he says.
