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vForum2014 Round Up

id you come to vForum 2014? If not you missed out.
To kick the day off, Matt Piercy gave his exciting
keynote on the Software-Defined Enterprise and
Thriving in the Mobile-Cloud Era.

adoption of ITaaS - ultimate IT agility and scalability to
adapt to business demand

Following his speech, customers from Cloud on Demand
and Discovery, joined Matt Piercy and Ian Jansen van
Rensburg for an exciting discussion around the SDDC
and EUC challenges in South Africa. The crowd then split
to enjoy sessions ranging from NSX to Cloud Operations
while Matt Piercy, Wayne Biehn, Ian Jansen van Rensburg, Mark Reynolds and Richard Kerr attended the press
conference and interviews.

The future of IT – The Software Defined Enterprise

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We closed off the event with a cocktail party, great entertainment and amazing prizes. Here are a series of key
take-outs and a summary of the high level messaging
provided in Matt’s keynote.
IT needs to transform or run the risk of becoming
irrelevant.
At VMware we believe the world of IT is changing.
* We see four forces: social networking, mobile, cloud
and big data shaping the future of IT
* We believe this will be addressed by three major
aspects: SDDC, Hybrid cloud and the Virtual Workspace
(EUC)
* The result of which will be increased and pervasive

So what is the future of IT?

* The Software Defined Enterprise is capable of quickly
adapting to change through fast innovation.
* In a Software-Defined Enterprise, IT moves at the
speed of business through the use of software-defined architectures on all key infrastructures from the data centre
to the device.
* In a Software-Defined Enterprise, hardware is
standardised and virtualised, intelligence and operation
capabilities resides in the software layer, policy based
automation and self-service are the new way to run the
data centres.
Thriving in the Mobile-Cloud Era.
Available resources and IT budgets have continued to
decline as the industry has transitioned from the mainframe, to the client server, and now to the mobile-cloud
era.
New challenges:
* Cloud has redefined the speed and costs at which IT
needs to be provisioned and run

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